Overview:
FortiWeb is a web application firewall (WAF) that
protects hosted web applications and API from
attacks that target known and unknown exploits.
Using machine learning to model each application,
FortiWeb defends applications from known
vulnerabilities and from zero-day threats.
Web Application Protection
Multi layer protection against the OWASP Top 10 application attacks including machine learning to defend against known and unknown attacks.
API Protection
Protect your APIs from malicious actors by automatically enforcing positive and negative security policies. Seamlessly integrate API security into your CI/CD pipeline.
Bot Mitigation
Protect websites, mobile applications, and APIs from automated attacks with advanced bot mitigation that accurately differentiates between good bot traffic and malicious bots. FortiWeb Bot Mitigation provides the visibility and control you need without slowing down your users with unnecessary captchas or challenges.
FortiWeb protects against automated bots, webs scrapers, crawlers, data harvesting, credential stuffing and other automated attacks to protect your web assets, mobile APIs, applications, users and sensitive data. Combining machine learning with policies such as threshold based detection, Bot deception and Biometrics based detection with superior good bot identification FortiWeb is able to block malicious bot attacks while reducing friction on legitimate users. With advanced tracking techniques FortiWeb can differentiate between humans, automated requests and repeat offenders, track behavior over time to better identify humans from bots and enforce CAPTCHA challenges when required. Together with FortiView, FortiWeb’s graphical analysis dashboard organizations can quickly identify attacks and differentiate from good bots and legitimate users.
Key Points
- Machine learning that detects and
blocks threats while minimizing
false positives
- Advanced Bot Mitigation effectively protect web assets without imposing friction on legitimate users
- Protection for APIs, including
those used to support mobile
applications
- Enhanced protection with Fortinet
Security Fabric integration
- Visual analytics tools for advanced
threat insights
- Third-party integration and
virtual patching
Highlights:
Comprehensive Web Application Security with FortiWeb
Using an advanced multi-layered and correlated approach, FortiWeb provides complete security for your web-based applications from the OWASP Top 10 and many other threats. FortiWeb’s first layer of defense uses traditional WAF detection engines (e.g. attack signatures, IP address
reputation, protocol validation, and more) to identify and block malicious traffic, powered by intelligence from Fortinet’s industry leading security research from FortiGuard Labs. FortiWeb’s machine learning detection engine then examines traffic that passes this first layer, using a continuously updated model of your application to identify malicious anomalies and block them as well.
Machine Learning Improves Detection and Drives Operational Efficiency
FortiWeb’s multi-layer approach provides two key benefits: superior threat detection and improved operational
efficiency.
FortiWeb’s ability to detect anomalous behavior relative to the specific application being protected enables the
solution to block unknown, never-before-seen exploits, providing your best protection against zero-day attacks
targeting your application.
Operationally, FortiWeb machine learning relieves you of time-consuming tasks such as remediating false
positives or manually tuning WAF rules. FortiWeb continually updates the model as your application evolves,
so there is no need to manually update rules every time you update your application. . FortiWeb continually updates
the model as your application evolves, so there is no need to manually update rules every time you update your application.
FortiWeb enables you to get your code into production faster, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual WAF rules tuning and troubleshooting the false positives that plague less advanced WAFs.
Deep Integration into the Fortinet Security
Fabric and Third-Party Scanners
As the threat landscape evolves, many new threats require a
multi-pronged approach for protecting web-based 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.
FortiWeb’s integration with FortiGate and FortiSandbox extend
basic WAF protections through synchronization and sharing of
threat information to both deeply scan suspicious files and
share infected internal sources.
FortiWeb also provides integration with leading third-party
vulnerability scanners including Acunetix, HP WebInspect,
IBM AppScan, Qualys, IBM QRadar, and WhiteHat to provide
dynamic virtual patches to security issues in application
environments. Vulnerabilities found by the scanner are quickly
and automatically turned into security rules by FortiWeb to
protect the application until developers can address them in
the application code.
Solving the Challenge of False
Threat Detections
False positive threat detections can be very disruptive and force
many administrators to loosen security rules on their web application
firewalls to the point where many often become a monitoring tool
rather than a trusted threat avoidance platform. The installation of a
WAF may take only minutes, however fine-tuning can take days, or
even weeks. Even after setup, a WAF can require regular checkups
and tweaks as applications and the environment change.
FortiWeb’s AI-based machine learning addresses false positive and
negative threat detections without the need to tediously manage
whitelists and fine-tune threat detection policies. With near 100%
accuracy, the dual layer machine learning engines detect anomalies
and then determine if they are threats unlike other methods that
block all anomalies regardless of their intent. When combined with
other tools, including user tracking, device fingerprinting, and threat
weighting, FortiWeb virtually eliminates all false detection scenarios.
API Protection
Fueling the digital transformation APIs have become increasingly popular, providing the backbone for mobile
applications, automated business to business operations and ease of management across applications. However, with their popularity they also increase the attack surface with additional exposed application surfaces that organizations must secure. Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall provides the right tools to address threats to APIs.
FortiWeb integrates out of the box policies together with an automatically generated positive security model policy that is based on your organization’s schema specification (OpenAPI, XML and generic JSON are supported schemas) to protect against API exploits. FortiWeb schema validation can be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, automatically generating an updated positive security model policy once the API is updated
Advanced Graphical Analysis and Reporting
FortiWeb includes a suite of graphical analysis tools called
FortiView. Similar to other Fortinet products such as FortiGate,
FortiWeb gives administrators the ability to visualize and drill-down
into key elements of FortiWeb such as server/IP configurations,
attack and traffic logs, attack maps, OWASP Top 10 attack
categorization, and user activity. FortiView for FortiWeb lets
administrators quickly identify suspicious activity in real time and
address critical use cases such as origin of threats, common
violations, and client/device risks.
Secured by FortiGuard
Fortinet’s Award-winning FortiGuard Labs is the backbone for many
of FortiWeb’s layers in its approach to application security. Offered
as 5 separate options, you can choose the FortiGuard services
you need to protect your web applications. FortiWeb IP Reputation
service protects you from known attack sources like botnets,
spammers, anonymous proxies, and sources known to be infected
with malicious software. FortiWeb Security Service is designed just
for FortiWeb including items such as application layer signatures,
machine learning threat models, malicious robots, suspicious
URL patterns and web vulnerability scanner updates. Credential
Stuffing Defense checks login attempts against FortiGuard’s list of
compromised credentials and can take actions ranging from alerts
to blocking logins from suspected stolen user ids and passwords.
The FortiSandbox Cloud subscription enables FortiWeb to integrate
with Fortinet’s cloud-sandbox service. Finally, FortiWeb offers
FortiGuard’s top-rated antivirus engine that scans all file uploads for
threats that can infect your servers or other network elements.
VM and Public Cloud Options
FortiWeb provides maximum flexibility in supporting your virtual
and hybrid environments. The virtual versions of FortiWeb support
all the same features as our hardware-based devices and can be
deployed in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Open
Source Xen, VirtualBox, KVM and Docker platforms. FortiWeb is
also available for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud as
a VM, and as WAF as a Service on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
For more information, see Fortiweb-Cloud.com.
