FortiAppSec Cloud
Web and API Security, Availability, and Performance

Overview:

Comprehensive application security and performance optimization across environments

The Fortinet FortiAppSec Cloud platform combines advanced web application firewall (WAF), API security, Advanced Bot Protection, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), and Threat Analytics into a single, unified platform. This all-in-one solution delivers robust application security, enhanced performance, and operational simplicity for web applications, ensuring seamless protection, visibility, and optimization under a unified management interface.

Challenges

The shift to multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments has created new challenges for organizations. As businesses expand their online presence, using more of web applications and APIs, the attack surface grows, increasing the complexity of managing consistent application security. Sophisticated cyber threats, such as OWASP Top-10 vulnerabilities, zero-day attacks (some of which are generated by LLM), and bot-driven fraud, target critical web assets, exposing organizations to data breaches and service disruptions.

Traditional security measures often struggle to keep up with these evolving threats, leaving gaps that cybercriminals eagerly exploit. Compounding the issue, traffic management across global data centers and hybrid cloud environments adds another layer of complexity, with organizations needing to ensure both optimal performance and security for users across diverse regions. This fragmented approach results in inconsistent security policies, reduced visibility, and greater operational complexity.

The Fortinet FortiAppSec Cloud Platform addresses these challenges by providing an integrated solution that ensures that organizations can not only protect their applications from modern threats but also gain realtime insights into security events and performance metrics, enabling proactive risk management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The Need for Solution Consolidation

Web applications and APIs are integral to modern business, but they also introduce new security risks that cybercriminals can exploit. As organizations scale their applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, more applications and APIs are being deployed, complicating the ability to consistently secure data in transit or at rest. Consequently, security gaps emerge, and organizations are exhausted by the growing number of security solutions they need to not only master but also synchronize. The increasing difficulty in protecting sensitive data and delivering optimal user experiences pushes them toward unified platforms.

Delivered as SaaS, the Fortinet FortiAppSec Cloud Platform consolidates essential application delivery and security services, simplifying management, delivering robust protection, and allowing centralized visibility, consistent security policies, and optimized traffic management across distributed environments. This integrated approach reduces the complexity of managing multiple solutions while strengthening security and improving the performance of applications and APIs globally.

Use Cases

Comprehensive Web and API Security, Including Advanced Bot Protection

FortiAppSec Cloud offers robust Web Application Firewall (WAF) and API security, complemented by Advanced Bot Protection, which detects and blocks sophisticated bot behaviors to different legitimate users from automated attacks. This use case is ideal for organizations looking to secure web applications and APIs while preventing bot-driven fraud and abuse.

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Optimized Global Traffic Management with Enhanced Security

The FortiAppSec Cloud Platform uses Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) to dynamically route traffic across multiple data centers, ensuring high availability and optimized performance, while WAF and API security protect the application layer from vulnerabilities. This solution is especially effective for organizations needing to deliver secure and optimized content globally with integrated protection.

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Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Application Deployment

FortiAppSec Cloud ensures consistent security policies across all environments, with global load balancing to distribute traffic efficiently between clouds and data centers. This deployment is particularly useful for ensuring high availability and failover, guaranteeing application uptime even during outages or regional disruptions.

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API Protection for Microservices Architectures

FortiAppSec Cloud ensures that API traffic is protected against common threats, such as injection attacks or API-specific vulnerabilities, with advanced security measures like deep packet inspection. API discovery helps identify and catalog APIs across environments to ensure comprehensive protection. Combined with bot protection, this solution safeguards APIs from being exploited by automated attacks, ensuring business continuity and integrity in modern application designs.

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Proactive Threat Monitoring and Analytics

With Threat Analytics, organizations gain real-time visibility into potential threats, anomalies, and incidents across their cloud infrastructure. By integrating threat intelligence and security event monitoring into the FortiAppSec Cloud platform, customers can proactively respond to emerging threats and mitigate risks before they impact critical applications.

Features and Benefits

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiAppSec Cloud Data Sheet (PDF).