Overview:
Application delivery without any limits.
FortiADC is an advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that ensures application availability,
application security, and application optimization. FortiADC offers advanced security features (WAF,
DDoS, and AV) and application connectors for easy deployment and full visibility to your networks and
applications. FortiADC can be deployed as a physical or virtual machine (VM), or as a Cloud solution.
Application Availability
24x7 application availability through automatic failover
for business continuity with application automation,
global server load balancing, and link load balancing
to optimize WAN connectivity.
Application Optimization
Multi-core processor technology combined with
hardware-based SSL offloading and server
optimization to increase end-user QoE.
Application Protection
Advanced Web Application Firewall protection from
the OWASP Top 10 and threat detection with Fortinet
FortiGuard Cloud Services.
Highlights and Benefits
- Advanced Application
Load Balancing
- Protection from the
OWASP Top 10
application attacks
- Multi-Deployment Mode
with Hardware, VM, or
Cloud Solution (PAYG/ BYOL)
- SSL Security and Visibility with
Hardware-based Solution
- Automation and Fabric
Connector to Third Party
Solutions such as SAP, Cisco
ACI, AWS, and K8s
- User Authentication and
Authorization via MFA and SSO
- FortiGSLB Cloud Integration
Maximizes Service Availability
Highlights:
Application Availability
Applications are the lifeblood of a company’s online presence.
Unresponsive applications can result in lost revenue and customers
taking their future business elsewhere. Application performance,
scalability, and resilience are key but none of this matters unless the
end-user has a good experience and completes their transaction.
FortiADC is a dedicated Application Delivery Control solution that
provides a multi-tenancy solution (VDOM), high availability, and
scalability with hybrid solution deployment (on-premises and cloud
offering) to your applications.
SSL Security
FortiADC delivers high capacity decryption and encryption with the latest
cryptography standard using hardware-based SSL ASIC. FortiADC
provides SSL offloading, SSL inspection and visibility to inspect traffic
for threats, speeds up server response, and reduces the load on the
backend server. FortiADC also integrates with Gemalto’s SafeNet
Enterprise Hardware Security Module (HSM).
Business Continuity
FortiADC’s included Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) module onprem or in the cloud (FortiGSLB Cloud) makes your network reliable and
available by scaling applications across multiple data centers for disaster
recovery or to improve application response times. Customers can set
up rules based on site availability, data center performance, and network
latency
Application Protection
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. FortiADC also supports our
FortiGuard Cloud 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.
Application Optimization
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. FortiADC also provides
Dynamic Caching and HTTP Compression and Decompression to
improve end-user experience and server productivity.
FortiADC Security Fabric
As the threat landscape evolves, many new risks require a multipronged approach for protecting applications. FortiADC’s antivirus
and integration with FortiSandbox extend basic security protections
to scan file attachments for known and unknown threats.
Automation and Connectors
FortiADC Fabric Connectors provide open API-based integration and
orchestration with multiple software-defined networks (SDN), cloud,
management, and partner technology platforms. Fortinet Fabric
Connectors deliver turnkey, open, and deep integration into third
party services such as K8s, AWS, OCI, and SAP, in multi-vendor
ecosystems, enabling scalability, security automation, and simplified
management.
Unleash the Power of Scripts
FortiADC Scripts provides the flexibility to create custom eventdriven 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.
Application Authentication
FortiADC provides centralized user authentication and authorization
services to web applications. FortiADC acts as a gatekeeper to
offload HTTP authentication and authorization to customer
applications using single sign-on (SSO) services, SAML, LDAP,
RADIUS, and MFA (using FortiToken Cloud and Google authenticator).
WAN Optimization
FortiADC provides a built-in link optimization with the Link Load
Balancing module. Customers can create two or more WAN links
(for inbound and outbound Link LB) to reduce the risk of outages or
to add additional bandwidth to relieve traffic congestion.
Analytics and Visibility
FortiADC offers a comprehensive monitoring system for your network
and application. With FortiView, customers can get real-time and
historical data into a single view on your FortiADC. We also provide
a network logical topology of real-servers, user/application dataanalytics, security threats, attack maps, and some other system
events and alerts. FortiADC is integrated with third party solutions
such as Splunk, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiSIEM for more visibility,
correlation, automated response, and remediation.
FortiADC Centralized Management
FortiADC Manager is a web-based management tool that allows you
to centrally manage multiple FortiADC devices remotely. Network
administrators can better control their devices by logically grouping
devices, efficiently managing jobs and licenses, quickly checking
various logs, and monitoring threat statistics in real time.