Fortinet FortiWeb 100E
Web Application Firewall

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.

 

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.

Features:

Specifications:

	FortiWeb 100E	FortiWeb 400E	FortiWeb 600E	FortiWeb 1000E
Hardware
10/100/1000 Interfaces (RJ-45 ports)	4	4 GE RJ45, 4 SFP GE	4 GE RJ45 (2 bypass), 4 SFP GE	6 (4 bypass), 2x SFP GE (non-bypass)
10G BASE-SR SFP+ Ports	0	0	0	2
SSL/TLS Processing	Software	Software	Hardware	Hardware
USB Interfaces	2	2	2	2
Storage	32 GB SSD	480 GB SSD	480 GB SSD	2x 1 TB
Form Factor	Desktop	1U	1U	2U
Power Supply	Single	Single	Dual	Dual Hot Swappable
System Performance
Throughput	50 Mbps	250 Mbps	750 Mbps	1.3 Gbps
Latency	<5 ms	<5 ms	<5 ms	<5 ms
High Availability	Active/Passive, Active/Active Clustering	Active/Passive, Active/Active Clustering	Active/Passive, Active/Active Clustering	Active/Passive, Active/Active Clustering
Application Licenses	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Administrative Domains	0	32	32	64
All performance values are “up to” and vary depending on the system configuration.
Dimensions
Height x Width x Length (inches)	1.61 x 8.27 x 5.24	1.73 x 17.24 x 16.38	1.73 x 17.24 x 16.38	3.46 x 16.93 x 19.73
Height x Width x Length (mm)	41 x 210 x 133	44 x 438 x 416	44 x 438 x 416	88 x 430 x 501.20
Weight	2.3 lbs (1.1 kg)	22 lbs  (9.97 kg)	22 lbs (9.97 kg)	28 lbs (12.8 kg)
Rack Mountable	Optional	Yes	Yes	Yes, with flanges
Environment
Power Required	100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz	100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz	100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz	100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz
Maximum Current	110V/1.2A, 220V/1.2A	100V/5A, 240V/3A	100V/5A, 240V/3A	100V/5A, 240V/3A
Power Consumption (Average)	18 W	109 W	109 W	140 W
Heat Dissipation	74 BTU/h	446.3 BTU/h	446.3 BTU/h	471 BTU/h
Operating Temperature	32–104°F	32–104°F	32–104°F	32–104°F
Storage Temperature	-13–158°F	-13–158°F	-13–158°F	-13–158°F
Humidity	0–90% non-condensing	0–90% non-condensing	0–90% non-condensing	5–95% non-condensing
Compliance
Safety Certifications	FCC Class A Part 15, RCM, VCCI, CE, UL/cUL, CB (-25–70°C)

Actual performance values may vary depending on the network traffic and system configuration. Performance metrics were observed using a Dell PowerEdge R710 server (2x Intel Xeon E5504 2.0 GHz 4 MB Cache) running VMware ESXi 5.5 with 4 GB of vRAM assigned to the 4 vCPU and 8 vCPU FortiWeb Virtual Appliance and 4 GB of vRAM assigned to the 2 vCPU FortiWeb Virtual Appliance.

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiWeb 100E (PDF).