FortiGate 7040E-9-DC Fortinet

Deployment:

Figure 1: FortiGate 7000 Series deployment in large campus networks (NGFW, ISFW)

Figure 2: FortiGate 7000 Series deployment in data center (DCFW/NGFW, ISFW)

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

• Security gateway to the Internet for enterprises.
• Enforce security policies with granular control and visibility of users and devices for thousands of discrete applications.
• Identify and stop threats with powerful intrusion prevention beyond port and protocol that examines the actual content of your network traffic.

Internal Segmentation Firewall (ISFW)

• Segmentation solution for end-to-end protection against threats while meeting compliance requirements.
• High port density and accelerated traffic processing capacity, to protect multiple segments without compromising performance.
• Deploy transparently and rapidly into existing environments with minimal disruption.

Data Center Firewall (DCFW)

• High availability, high throughput and low latency for data center edge and core.
• High session scale for accommodating large network and user traffic for internet and cloud facing data centers.
• High speed Interfaces for future-proof connectivity while compact size contributes to greener data centers.

Hardware:

FortiGate 7040E

Next Generation 6U 19-inch 4-slot rack mount chassis with Fortinet Processor Modules (FPM) and Fortinet Interface Modules (FIM).

Services:

FortiGuard Security Services

FortiGuard Labs offers real-time intelligence on the threat landscape, delivering comprehensive security updates across the full range of Fortinet’s solutions. Comprised of security threat researchers, engineers, and forensic specialists, the team collaborates with the world’s leading threat monitoring organizations, other network and security vendors, as well as law enforcement agencies:

• Real-time Updates — 24x7x365 Global Operations research security intelligence, distributed via Fortinet Distributed Network to all Fortinet platforms.
• Security Research — FortiGuard Labs have discovered over 170 unique zero-day vulnerabilities to date, totaling millions of automated signature updates monthly
• Validated Security Intelligence — Based on FortiGuard intelligence, Fortinet’s network security platform is tested and validated by the world’s leading third-party testing labs and customers globally.

FortiCare Support Services

Our FortiCare customer support team provides global technical support for all Fortinet products. With support staff in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia, FortiCare offers services to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes:

• Enhanced Support — For customers who need support during local business hours only.
• Comprehensive Support — For customers who need around- the-clock mission critical support, including advanced exchange hardware replacement.
• Advanced Services — For global or regional customers who need an assigned Technical Account Manager, enhanced service level agreements, extended software support, priority escalation, on-site visits and more.
• Professional Services — For customers with more complex security implementations that require architecture and design services, implementation and deployment services, operational services and more.

Enterprise Bundle

FortiGuard Labs delivers a number of security intelligence services to augment the FortiGate firewall platform. You can easily optimize the protection capabilities of your FortiGate with the FortiGuard Enterprise Bundle. This bundle contains the full set of FortiGuard security services plus FortiCare service and support offering the most flexibility and broadest range of protection all in one package.

Software:

FortiOS

Control all the security and networking capabilities across the entire FortiGate platform with one intuitive operating system. Reduce operating expenses and save time with a truly consolidated next generation security platform.

• A truly consolidated platform with one OS for all security and networking services for all FortiGate platforms.
• Industry-leading protection: NSS Labs Recommended, VB100, AV Comparatives and ICSA validated security and performance.
• Control thousands of applications, block the latest exploits, and filter web traffic based on millions of real-time URL ratings.
• Detect, contain and block advanced attacks automatically in minutes with integrated advanced threat protection framework.
• Solve your networking needs with extensive routing, switching, WiFi, LAN and WAN capabilities.
• Activate all the ASIC-boosted capabilities you need on the fastest firewall platform available.

Specifications:

Note: All performance values are “up to” and vary depending on system configuration. IPsec VPN performance is based on 512 byte UDP packets using AES-256+SHA1.
1. IPS performance is measured using 1 Mbyte HTTP and Enterprise Traffic Mix.
2. SSL Inspection is measured with IPS enabled and HTTP traffic, using TLS v1.2 with AES256-SHA.
3. Application Control performance is measured with 64 Kbytes HTTP traffic.
4. NGFW performance is measured with IPS and Application Control enabled, based on Enterprise Traffic Mix.
5. Threat Protection performance is measured with IPS and Application Control and Malware protection enabled, based on Enterprise Traffic Mix.
6. CAPWAP performance is based on 1444 byte UDP packets.

Documentation:

 Download the Fortinet FortiGate 7000E Series Data Sheet (PDF).