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One Product Line, Three NSS Labs Awards

Fortinet has earned three NSS Labs’ coveted “Recommend” ratings by delivering outstanding enterprise management, security effectiveness and TCO in three group tests: 2013 Next Generation Firewall 2013 Network Firewall 2012 Network Intrusion Prevention   NSS Labs put the FortiGate-3600C, FortiGate-800C and FortiGate-3240C appliances through extensive real-world tests and awarded each the “Recommend” rating for providing “a very high level of protection, manageability and value for money.” These awards are a big deal for several reasons. First, NSS Labs provides solid insight into the true performance of network security devices and their ability to protect against a wide range of threats. Network security professionals understand the need to balance the potentially competing requirements of more performance and more security at an abstract level, but often lack the information they need to make informed buying decisions.

Twitter Hacks: How Avoid Being the Next Victim

Perhaps it had been too long since Twitter was the center of the public attention. Drama junkies were treated to a triple-whammy of cyber news this week when miscreants hacked into the Twitter accounts of Jeep, Burger King and none other than the global hacker collective Anonymous. In an ironic twist of plot, the infamous hacker group’s Twitter account was apparently overtaken by rival hacktivists, according to the BBC.

Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs Discovers Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave Player

Affected Software Could Allow an Attacker, Who Successfully Exploits These Vulnerabilities, to Run Malicious Code on the Affected System SUNNYVALE, Calif., February 20, 2013 ― Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) − a world leader in high-performance network security – today announced the company’s FortiGuard Labs has identified critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave Player. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs consist of over 175 researchers and analysts world-wide, working to discover, monito…

President Obama’s Cyber State of the Union

During his State of the Union address On February 12, 2013, President Obama announced an Executive Order that pertained to Cyber Security and information sharing.  He stated the need for better protection against hackers, including foreign countries that have tried in the past to collect corporate and personal information.  All Things D published the executive order in its entirety.  Many have questioned whether this will have little, beneficial or detrimental effects on the network security …

FortiOS Cookbook – Application Control (5.0)

In this video, you’re going to learn how to use Application Control to monitor and control applications’ access to your network. Application Control is a UTM security system that monitors and restricts applications over your network, using the FortiGuard database of applications, which categorizes apps according to popularity, networking technology, app function, and risk. You can create a list of flagged apps or select by category, and monitor or block the actions of those applications using your existing firewall policies.