Fortinet Private Cloud Security
Advanced Security for Private Cloud, SDN, and Virtualization Platforms
Private Cloud Security Solutions Overview
Virtualization and software-defined network (SDN) security are rapidly transforming data centers into agile, innovative, software-defined, and cost-effective private clouds. Yet, security is often an afterthought when it comes to private cloud deployments. Traditional security cannot keep up with these new environments, creating security gaps or manual security processes that negate the benefits of virtualization and SDN firewalls. Private cloud requires a software-defined approach to security due to the lack of visibility posed by east-west traffic and virtualized services. Private cloud and software-defined data center (SDDC) assets need advanced protection from evolving threats, both known and unknown.
Fortinet Security Fabric for the Cloud
Fortinet Security Fabric is an architectural approach that unifies the security technologies deployed across the digital network, including multi-cloud, endpoints, email and web applications, and network access points, into a single security system integrated through a combination of open standards and a common operating system.
FortiGate Virtual Next-generation Firewall
FortiGate-VM next-generation firewall can be deployed as a virtual appliance in private and public cloud environments, either as a BYOL instance or provisioned on-demand via public cloud marketplaces.
FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer virtual machines are all supported on VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen Server, Xen, KVM, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Secure NSX Environment with FortiGate VMX
FortiGate Virtual Firewall simplifies policy provisioning and provides deep visibility as well as automated enforcement in VMware NSX based Private Cloud environments.
Use Cases
Security in the cloud enables the confidence to safely deploy applications in the software-defined data center and private cloud, improving overall organizational agility and ability to respond to market demand. By leveraging Fortinet Security Fabric solutions to deploy use case driven security capabilities, organizations benefit from market-leading security with streamlined management functionality. Following is a set of common deployment scenarios of Fortinet’s Security Fabric in the private cloud.
North-South Advanced L7 Security Protection
Organizations expanding their networks to accommodate the rapid deployment of data center-based services may often discover a strain on the security architecture’s ability to handle a subsequently growing security threat landscape. Implementing a virtual next-generation firewall with FortiGate-VM in the virtualized data center or private cloud provides extensive visibility and control of the infrastructure. FortiGate-VM automatically provisions and scales security, and has broad support for leading hypervisors, software-defined networks (SDNs) and cloud platforms. It provides advanced Layer 7 protection for north-south traffic in virtualized data centers.
Secure the Virtualized Data Center and Private Cloud
Fortinet’s software-defined security solution is certified by leading SDN, virtualization and network function virtualization (NFV) platforms and can be applied to any data center transformed into a cloud environment. Integration with leading hypervisor and private cloud solutions from VMware, Nutanix, Cisco, OpenStack, Microsoft and more, allows automated insertion and orchestration of private cloud security throughout software defined data centers as well as rich API extensibility. Fortinet Fabric Connectors provide open, API-based integration and orchestration with multiple SDN and private cloud platforms, enabling security automation and simplified management.
Fortinet’s Private Cloud Security strategy is defined by three key pillars - Native integration of security capabilities to each private cloud platform by abstracting the cloud specific intricacies; Broad protection of applications across all private cloud platforms by offering the broad set of security products and Single pane of glass management via unified management of policy, events and analytics across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure to eliminate security and compliance gaps.
The FortiGate-VM Series is a virtual appliance version of our market-leading, high-performance FortiGate next-generation firewall (NGFW) that delivers advanced protection for north-south and east-west traffic in virtualized data centers and private cloud.
As an innovator and leader in data center security, Fortinet offers the largest range of virtual appliances that provide in-depth visibility and control of virtual network traffic with scalability, performance, and value. Virtual appliances also deliver elasticity, automation, and orchestration for comprehensive private cloud security, SDN security, and VM security.
Telco Cloud/Mobile Security/NFV
For virtualized service provider infrastructures, Fortinet offers a broad range of next generation virtual firewalls virtualized network functions (VNFs). Powered by Fortinet’s Virtual SPU Technology, FortiGate VNFs deliver significant increases in application and carrier security performance through innovative security processing optimizations and the latest packet processing acceleration technologies. The FortiGate NGFW VNFs provide comprehensive network security capabilities; these VNFs have a small footprint, boot within seconds, and require less storage, thereby enabling service providers to protect their virtual networks and cloud platforms cost effectively.