Fortinet FortiADC-400F
Application Delivery Controllers

Overview:

The FortiADC Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) optimize the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of Enterprise Application Delivery. The FortiADC family of physical appliances delivers fast, secure and intelligent acceleration and distribution of demanding applications in the enterprise.

Acceleration and Performance

Multi-core processor technology, combined with hardware-based SSL offloading to accelerate application performance.

Application Availability

24x7 application availability through automatic failover, global server load balancing, and link load balancing to optimize WAN connectivity

Application Protection

Advanced Web Application Firewall protection from the OWASP top 10 and threat detection with Fortinet Security Fabric.

Highlights

• Comprehensive server load balancing for 99.999% application uptime
• Server offloading for improved application acceleration, scale and TCO
• Intelligent traffic management for optimized application delivery and availability
• Web Application Firewall with Integrated vulnerability scanner
• Hardware-based SSL Offloading, Forward Proxy, and Visibility
• Advanced User Authentication
• Included Global Server Load Balancing
• Included Link Load Balancing and WAN Optimization
• Scripting for Custom Load Balancing, Health Check and Content Rewriting

Key Features and Benefits

• Advanced Layer 7 Load Balancing - Intuitive L7 policy-based routing to dynamically rewrite content to support complex applications and server configurations.
• Web Application Firewall - Advanced Web Application Firewall that protects applications with Web Application Attack Signatures, Protocol Validation, Web Vulnerability Scanner, Bot Detection, DLP and File Restriction.
• SSL Offloading, Forward Proxy, and Visiblity - Hardware and software-based SSL offloading reduces the performance impact on your server infrastructure. Also provides SSL visibility, decryption and re-encryption for FortiGate to easily inspect traffic for threats.
• Application Optimization - Speed up web application delivery with Compression, Caching, HTTP 2.0, and HTTP Page Speed-UP for improved network and web server utilization.
• Global Server Load Balancing - Included Global Server Load Balancing distributes traffic across multiple geographical locations for disaster recovery or to improve user response times.
• User Authentication - Provide Policy enforcement and access control to all applications using Kerberos, SAML, SSO and TwoFactor Authentication (FortiToken and Google Authenticator)
• Link Load Balancing - Link Load Balancing distributes traffic over multiple ISPs to increase resilience and reduce the need for costly bandwidth upgrades

Highlights:

Hardware-Based SSL Offloading, SSL Inspection, and Visibility

FortiADC offloads server-intensive SSL processing with support for 4096-bit keys, TCP connection management, data compression and HTTP request processing from servers. This speeds up response times, reduces load on the backend servers, allowing them to serve more users.

SSL Forward Proxy utilizes FortiADC’s high-capacity decryption and encryption to allow other devices, such as a FortiGate firewall, to easily inspect traffic for threats. An inline pair of FortiADCs at the front end and back end of a firewall remove all encryption so that the firewall isn’t taxed with the additional load of SSL processing. FortiADC ensures seamless re-encryption with certificates intact with no user disruptions.

FortiADC’s Transparent HTTP/S and TCP/S Mirroring Capabilities decrypt secure traffic for inspection and reporting. Copies of clear traffic can be sent for analysis by FortiGate or other third-party solutions for an indepth view of threats that may be hidden in encrypted traffic while FortiADC continues to perform its application delivery functions.

FortiADC integrates with Gemalto’s SafeNet Enterprise Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to use the advanced security certificates managed by the HSM for the encryption and decryption of secure application traffic. This lets organizations that use Gemalto’s SafeNet HSMs deploy a high-performance ADC solution using a strong, centrally-managed set of certificates and encryption keys.

Disaster Recovery with Global Server Load Balancing

FortiADC’s included Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) makes your network reliable and available by scaling applications across multiple data centers for disaster recovery or to improve application response times. Administrators can set up rules that direct traffic based on site availability, data center performance and network latency.

Web Application Firewall

FortiADC offers multiple levels of protection to defend against attacks that target your web applications. FortiADC Web Application Firewall can detect a zero day attack and protect from OWASP top-10 and many other threats with multi-vector protection such as SQLi and XSS Protection, Web Scraping, Brute Force, Web Defacement, Protocol Validation (HTTP RFC) and Web Attack Signature using FortiGuard WAF Security Services for layer 7 attacks (subscription required). Also, FortiADC WAF provides full Web Vulnerability Scanning for your website to detect and alert against known attacks.

Optimize Performance with PageSpeed, Caching, and Compression

FortiADC provides multiple services that speed the delivery of applications to users. The PageSpeed suite of website performance enhancement tools can automatically optimize HTTP, CSS, Javascript and image delivery to application users. Caching on FortiADC dynamically stores popular application content such as images, videos, HTML files and other file types to alleviate server resources and accelerate overall application performance. HTTP Compression employs GZIP and DEFLATE to intelligently compress many content types used by today’s latest web-based applications to reduce bandwidth needs and improve the user application experience.

Deep Integration into the Fortinet Security Fabric

As the threat landscape evolves, many new threats require a multi-pronged approach for protecting applications. Advanced Persistent Threats that target users can take many different forms than traditional single-vector attack types and can evade protections offered only by a single device. FortiADC’s antivirus and integration with FortiSandbox extend basic security protections to scan file attachments for known and unknown threats.

DDoS Application, Web Filtering, IPS, Geo-IP and IP Reputation for Enhanced Security

FortiGuard Web Filtering works with FortiADC’s SSL Forward Proxy feature to simplify the process of managing exceptions for secure traffic inspection. Instead of manually configuring single URLs, Web Filtering gives administrators the ability to choose websites by category type to enable or disable SSL traffic inspection as a group instead of on a site by site basis. FortiADC also supports our FortiGuard which provides multi services such as: IPS, Antivirus and IP Reputation service (subscription required) that protects you from sources associated with DoS/DDoS attacks, phishing schemes, spammers, malicious software and botnets.

Scripting to Extend Built-in Features

FortiADC’s Lua-based scripting language gives you the flexibility to create custom, event-driven rules using predefined commands, variables and operators. Using easy-to-create scripts, you get the flexibility you need to extend your FortiADC with specialized business rules that give you almost unlimited possibilities for server load balancing, health checks, application validation, content routing, and content rewriting to meet the needs of your organization.

Link Load Balancing

Built-in Link Load Balancing (LLB) gives you the option to connect your FortiADC to two or more WAN links to reduce the risk of outages or to add additional bandwidth to relieve traffic congestion. FortiADC supports inbound and outbound Link Load Balancing to manage traffic leaving or entering the device. Using policy routing, FortiADC can support complex NAT and routing requirements to address almost any network LLB architecture. With Tunnel Routing you get high-speed, reliable site-to-site connectivity without the need to lease expensive WAN links. It aggregates multiple links to create a virtual tunnel to a remote data center that ensures availability especially for applications that are time sensitive and require large single-session bandwidth such as video conferencing.

Analytics and Visibility

FortiADC offers real-time and historical information about your appliance, which includes the logical topology of real-server pools, user/application data-analytics, security threats, attack maps and some other system events and alerts.

VM and Public Cloud Options

FortiADC provides maximum flexibility in supporting your virtual and hybrid environments. The virtual versions of FortiADC support all the same features as our hardware-based devices and can be deployed in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Open Source Xen, and KVM platforms. FortiADC is also available for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud.

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Documentation:

Download the FortiADC Series Datasheet (.PDF)