UTM: Unified Threat Management With your FortiGate unit, protecting your network from viruses is simple and straightforward, and the web-based interface gives you a variety of methods to track and monitor traffic for viruses.
Blocking the Passage of Oversized Files
UTM: Unified Threat Management The FortiGate unit can be set to automatically block the downloading of large files, by routing all traffic through the unit’s internal UTM Proxy.
You, Us, and the Amazon Cloud
As several customers and partners have expressed their interest in our current Amazon capabilities, I'd like to take the chance to summarize our integration with Amazon and their excellent cloud services. In ASG 8.300, we added two different areas of support with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products; our solution can be run within the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)using a pre-built machine image provided by us, along with a dedicated Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connector to join your ASG to your VPC with a level of ease never before possible. As a result, you then saw the business case possibilities around using RED appliances and WIFI Access Points for connecting branch offices back to products hosted within Amazon; we have shipped thousands of units in response
Simplify Security with WatchGuard Management Server
Use the WatchGuard Management Server to painlessly manage multiple Firebox devices and VPN tunnels from one easy-to-use central management interface. This feature makes it a cinch for administrators to synchronize policy changes across a sprawling network, or to drill-down to a specific firewall and implement site-specific policies.
SC Magazine RSA 2012 with Greg Fitzgerald
Greg Fitzgerald, Fortinet’s VP of Global Marketing, chats with Eric Green from SC Magazine about security trends affecting different vertical markets today.
Up2Date 8.301 Released
Today we have made available Version 8.301 of Astaro Security Gateway. This is a maintenance release only which addresses various reported issues and will contribute to the stability of your ASG installation
Adobe Flash Update Plugs Zero Day XSS Hole and Others
Summary: This vulnerability affects : Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and earlier, running on all platforms. This also affects the Android version of Flash
Create your own Lego Malware monster and win a Nintendo DSi!
The creative heads at Astaro – a Sophos company have thrown the ball to you…
World’s Fastest Firewall: Fortinet FortiGate 5140
Fortinet and BreakingPoint conducted a performance test on the FortiGate 5140B loaded with the 5001B Blades. It was able to achieve the following: – 559 Gbps with 1518 byte packets & 45 Mpps – 557 Gbps with IMIX and 170 Mpps – 547 Gbps with 64 byte packets and 813 Mpps – 542 Gbps with 64K HTTP More than 3x faster than Juniper & Check Point 14x faster than SonicWALL and McAfee 28x faster than Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and WatchGuard Compared to the following competitors highest end product: Juniper SRX 5800 (150 Gbps) Check Point CP 61000 (200 Gbps) SonicWALL NSA E10800 (40 Gbps) McAfee & Crossbeam X80S (40 Gbps) Cisco ASA 5585-SSP60 (20 Gbps) Palo Alto Networks PA 5060 (20 Gbps) WatchGuard XTM 2050 (20 Gbps)
RED – How to connect your remote location in less than 2 minutes?
Perhaps this scenario sounds familiar: you need to connect several remote branch offices to your corporate headquarters, maybe also including a few mobile employees and home offices. There is no IT know-how on site at most of these locations! How can you handle this situation?