Fortinet FortiEDR Protect and Respond
Advanced, automated endpoint protection, detection, and response

Overview:

FortiEDR delivers real-time, automated endpoint protection with the orchestrated incident response across any communication device — including workstations and servers with current and legacy operating systems as well as manufacturing and OT systems — all in a single integrated platform, with flexible deployment options and a predictable operating cost.

Real-Time Proactive Risk Mitigation & IoT Security

Enables proactive reduction of the attack surface, including vulnerability assessment and proactive risk mitigation-based policies that enable communication controls of any discovered application with vulnerabilities.

Pre-Infection Protection

Provides the first layer of defense via a custom- built, kernel-level Next Generation machine-learning-based Anti-Virus (NGAV) engine that prevents infection from file-based malware.

Post-Infection Protection

FortiEDR is the only solution that detects and stops advanced attacks in real-time, even when the endpoint has been compromised. No breaches, no data loss, no problem. FortiEDR eliminates dwell time and provides a suite of automated Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) features to detect, defuse, investigate, respond and remediate incidents.

Benefits

Highlights & Features:

Features

Discover and Predict

FortiEDR delivers the most advanced automated attack surface policy control with vulnerability assessments and discovery that allows security teams to:

• Discover and control rogue devices (e.g., unprotected or unmanaged devices) and IoT devices
• Track applications and ratings
• Discover and mitigate system and application vulnerabilities with virtual patching
• Reduce the attack surface with risk-based proactive policies

Prevent

FortiEDR uses a machine learning antivirus engine to stop malware pre-execution. This cross-OS NGAV capability is configurable and comes built into the single, lightweight agent, allowing users to assign anti-malware protection to any endpoint group without requiring additional installation.

• Enable machine learning, kernel-based NGAV
• Enrich findings with real-time threat intelligence feeds from a continuously updated cloud database
• Protect disconnected endpoints with offline protection
• USB device control

Detect and Defuse

FortiEDR detects and defuses file-less malware and other advanced attacks in real-time to protect data and prevent breaches. As soon as FortiEDR detects suspicious process flows and behaviors, it immediately defuses the potential threats by blocking outbound communications and access to the file system from those processes if and once requested. These steps prevent data exfiltration, command and control (C&C) communications, file tampering, and ransomware encryption. At the same time FortiEDR backend continues to gather additional evidence, enrich event data and classify the incidents for a potential automated incident response playbook policy to apply. FortiEDR surgically stops data breach and ransomware damage in real-time, automatically allowing business continuity even on already compromised devices.

• Leverage OS-centric detection, highly accurate in detecting stealthy infiltrated attacks, including memory-based and “living off the land” attacks
• Stop breaches in real-time and eliminate threat dwell time
• Achieve analysis of entire log history
• Prevent ransomware encryption, and file/registry tempering
• Continuously validate the classification of threats
• Enhance signal to noise ratio and eliminate alert fatigue

Respond and Remediate

Orchestrate incident response operations using tailor-made playbooks with cross-environment insights. Streamline incident response and remediation processes, manually or automatically roll back malicious changes done by already contained threats—on a single device or devices across the environment.

• Automate incident classification and enhance the signal-to-alert ratio
• Standardize incident response procedures with playbook automation
• Optimize security resources by automating incident response actions such as removing files, terminating malicious processes, reversing persistent changes, notifying users, isolating applications and devices, and opening tickets
• Enable contextual-based incident response using incident classification and the subjects of the attacks, (e.g., endpoint groups)
• Gain full visibility of the attack chain and malicious changes with patented code tracing
• Automate cleanup and roll back malicious changes while preserving system uptime
• Optional managed detection and response (MDR) service

Investigate and Hunt

FortiEDR automatically enriches data with detailed information on malware both pre- and post-infection to conduct forensics on infiltrated endpoints. Its unique guided interface provides helpful guidance, best practices and suggests the next logical steps for security analysts.

• Automate investigation with minimal interruption to end-users
• Automatically defuse and block threats, allowing security analysts to hunt on their own time
• Patented Code-tracing technology delivers full attack chain and stack visibility which points to the smoking gun even if the device is offline
• Preserve memory snapshots of in-memory attacks for memory-based threat hunting
• Guide interface displays clear explanations why the event is flagged as suspicious or malicious, lists corresponding MITRE attack framework, as well as logical next step for forensic investigation

Advantages:

Fabric Integration

FortiEDR leverages the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture and integrates with many Security Fabric components including FortiGate, FortiNAC, FortiSandbox, and FortiSIEM.

FortiGate

The FortiEDR connector enables the sharing of endpoint threat intelligence and application information with FortiGate. FortiEDR management can instruct enhanced response actions for FortiGate, such as suspending or blocking an IP address following an infiltration attack.

FortiNAC

FortiEDR shares endpoint threat intelligence and discovered assets with FortiNAC. With Syslog sharing, FortiEDR management can instruct enhanced response actions for FortiNAC, such as isolating a device to a remediation VLAN.

FortiSandbox

FortiEDR’s native integration with FortiSandbox automatically submits suspicious files to the sandbox in the cloud, supporting real-time event analysis and classification. Additionally, it shares threat intelligence with FortiSandbox.

FortiNAC

FortiEDR sends events and alerts to FortiSIEM for threat analysis and forensic investigation. FortiSIEM includes a designated parser for FortiEDR out of the box and can also utilize JSON and REST APIs to further integrate with FortiEDR.

FortiGuard Labs

FortiEDR native integration with FortiGuard Labs allows up-to-date intelligence, supporting real-time incident classification to enable accurate incident response playbook activation.

Specifications:

• Management, architecture, and platform support - A single, integrated management console provides prevention, detection, and incident response capabilities. Extended REST APIs are available to support any console action and beyond.
• Offline protection - Protection and detection happen on the endpoint, protecting disconnected endpoints.
• Native cloud infrastructure - FortiEDR features multi-tenant management in the cloud. The solution can be deployed as a cloud-native, hybrid, or on-premises. It also supports air-gapped environments.
• Lightweight endpoint agent - FortiEDR utilizes less than 1% CPU, up to 120 MB of RAM, 20 MB of disk space, and generates minimal network traffic.

FortiEDR supports Windows, Google Cloud, macOS, and Linux operating systems, and offers offline protection.

• Windows Versions: XP SP2/SP3, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11 (32-bit and 64-bit versions)
• Windows Server Versions: 2003 SP2, R2 SP2, 2008 SP2, 2008 R2 SP1, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022
• Google Cloud Versions: Compute Engine Deployments and Procurement
• macOS Versions: El Capitan (10.11), Sierra (10.12), High Sierra (10.13), Mojave (10.14), Catalina (10.15), Big Sur (11.x), and Monterey (12.x)
• Linux Versions: RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x, Ubuntu LTS 16.04.x, 18.04.x, 20.04.x server, 64 bit only Oracle Linux 6.x+, 7.7+, and 8.2+, Amazon Linux AMI 2 SuSE SLES 15.1
• VDI Environments Versions: VMware Horizons 6 and 7 and Citrix XenDesktop 7

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiEDR Datasheet (PDF).

Download the Fortinet FortiCare Best Practice Service Datasheet (PDF).

Download the Ordering Guide (.pdf) (PDF).