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Internal segmentation requires
extreme performance
A new challenge has emerged for
enterprises trying to successfully
segment their network: security
performance. Today’s enterprises face
unprecedented performance demands
on their infrastructure that often cannot
be matched by existing security
solutions. For a majority of enterprises,
traditional security appliances that
are built with off-the-shelf CPUs
and hardware to process security
traffic have become an infrastructure
bottleneck, resulting in degraded user
and application experience. Simply put,
yesterday’s security performance is no
longer enough to secure and enable
enterprises at the pace of today’s
business innovation.
To meet the extraordinary demands
of data centre security and enable a
security-driven networking approach,
Fortinet is introducing the FortiGate
1800F NGFW.
FortiGate 1800F
delivers high performance
internal segmentation
The FortiGate 1800F is powered by
NP7, the seventh generation of Fortinet’s
purpose-built network processor
specifically engineered to enable large
enterprises to handle unprecedented
levels of data and application demands.
NP7 offers today’s largest organisations
the ability to segment and launch
services, manage internal and external
risks and preserve user experience.
FortiGate 1800F, is an integral part of
the Fortinet security fabric and enables
several of the highest Security Compute
Ratings to-date.
FortiGate 1800F NGFW use
cases and benefits
Fortinet’s FortiGate 1800F NGFW
is engineered for large enterprises
to quickly and securely drive digital
innovation by offering capabilities
to meet the huge capacity and
performance demands of critical
business operations such as:
• Managing internal security risks:
Most firewalls simply cannot perform
fast enough to enable internal
segmentation. With multiple high
speed 40G interfaces and the
industry’s best threat protection
performance with a Security
Compute Rating of 3x, FortiGate
1800F enables enterprises to
properly segment their network
to manage internal security risks.
Additionally, FortiGate 1800F
intelligently adapts to segmented
users, devices and applications –
regardless of their location, whether
on-premise or in multiple clouds –
providing automated threat detection
and enforcement.
• Accelerating the cloud on-ramp:
IPsec encryption must be high
performing to enable and accelerate
the cloud on-ramp for organisations
adopting multiple clouds for IaaS
and SaaS services. FortiGate
1800F offers the highest Security
Compute Rating of 14x for IPsec
encryption when benchmarked
against competitors, enabling the
required speed, scale and availability
organisations need when on-ramping
to the cloud.
• Removing blind spots: With as
much as 60% of encrypted traffic
containing malware, SSL inspection
performance has become critical
to properly secure the network.
FortiGate 1800F offers the industry’s
highest SSL inspection performance
with a Security Compute Rating
of 20x, as well as support for the
industry’s latest TLS 1.3 standard,
to eliminate network blind spots by
enabling full visibility of clear-text and
encrypted network flows.
• Securing services across hybrid
architectures: Traditional softwarebased
security solutions have low
performance and high latency, which
increases time to service and
provides a poor user experience. The
FortiGate 1800F’s hardwareaccelerated
Virtual Extension LAN
(VXLAN) feature enables massively
scalable, adaptable internal
segmentation and allows super-fast
communication between enormously
scaled services such as compute,
storage and applications that are
co-hosted on physical and virtual
platforms. This allows organisations
that leverage a highly scalable virtual
services architecture to launch
services and applications in the
most agile fashion possible to
increase productivity and
revenue opportunities.
• Enabling secure advanced
research: Organisations often
transition their research to AI and
ML simulations to allow for faster
discovery of their objectives. For
example, pharmaceuticals can
measure the effectiveness of new
drugs or develop drugs faster with
reduced risks and potentially with
lower costs. AI/ML simulations
require the transfer of huge datasets
(e.g. 1 TB files), called an elephant
flow, that today’s data centres
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