Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Solutions to Protect Your Branch Connectivity
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What Is Fortinet Secure SD-WAN?
FortiGate delivers fast, scalable, and flexible Secure SD-WAN on-premises and in the cloud. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN supports cloud-first, security-sensitive, and global enterprises, as well as the hybrid workforce. Our Secure Networking approach uses one operating system and consolidates SD-WAN, next-generation firewall (NGFW), advanced routing, and ZTNA application gateway functions.
Simplify Your Network and Security with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is foundational for a seamless transition to SASE and SD-Branch. It enables organizations to protect their investment and simplify operations along their journey to a zero-trust architecture.
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Is Foundational for a Seamless Transition to SASE
FortiSASE helps extend secure access and high-performance connectivity to users regardless of their geographic locations. FortiSASE delivers a full set of networking and security capabilities, including secure web gateway (SWG), universal zero-trust network access (ZTNA), next-generation dual-mode cloud access security broker (CASB), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), and secure SD-WAN integration. With a unified solution, you can:
- Overcome security gaps
- Simplify operations and enhance security and networking analytics
- Shift to an OPEX business model with simple user-based tiered licensing
Ensure seamless, resilient, and secure access to private applications for a hybrid workforce
Powered by the effortless integration of Secure SD-WAN and FortiSASE
Get End-to-End Visibility, Analytics, and Reporting to Accelerate Zero-Trust Initiatives
Organizations are embarking on zero-trust initiatives to deliver enhanced security postures across highly distributed environments. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, along with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, provides granular visibility into network traffic, analyze traffic data, and automate responses traffic data, and automates responses based on the results. This requisite functionality enables the acceleration of zero-trust initiatives.
SD-WAN Networking Services
SD-WAN Overlay-as-a-Service
SD-WAN Overlay-as-a-Service is a turnkey service that provides simplified and rapid provisioning of interconnected locations securely.
- Turnkey service: The SaaS, cloud hosted model reduces hosting costs and management needs, plus lowers deployment time and overall cost.
- Continuous operations: Fortinet managed and hosted, geo-redundant HUBs are included with the service.
- Simple: The point-and-click interface means minimal technical expertise is required.
FortiGuard SD-WAN Underlay Bandwidth and Quality Monitoring Service
The FortiGuard SD-WAN Underlay Bandwidth and Quality Monitoring Service offers comprehensive monitoring of the ISP link, path, and application performance. It is enabled by FortiManager and FortiGuard Labs’ database of hundreds of popular SaaS and cloud designations. This empowers IT teams to swiftly prioritize network traffic, efficiently address operational issues, and enhance user experience.
SD-WAN Features and Benefits
APPLICATION RESILIENCE
Ensures the highest level of application availability and performance over any WAN transport
INTEGRATED ADVANCED SECURITY
Converges the most advanced NGFW and routing to deliver consistent security on- and off-network
SCALABLE, HIGH PERFORMANCE
Transforms and secures SD-WAN at scale with no performance impact thanks to our WAN ASIC
MULTI-CLOUD ON-RAMP
Enables secure, fast connectivity and high performance to, in, and between cloud applications
ZERO-TOUCH PROVISIONING
Enables large scale, faster deployment of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
CENTRALIZED ORCHESTRATION
Centrally manages deployments, configurations, and operations with visibility, analytics, & reporting
50%
Increase in IT-team productivity
300%
ROI over three years
SP5
Purpose-built ASIC
SD-WAN Use Cases
TRANSFORM WAN AND SECURITY
Use one management console for SD-WAN, advanced routing, and NGFW controls to protect the entire digital attack surface.
SIMPLIFY SECURE SD-BRANCH
Simplify branch architecture with centrally managed, scalable secure SD-WAN and integrated NAC, WLAN, LAN, and LTE/4G/5G.
OPTIMIZE THE HYBRID WORKFORCE
Enhance work-from-anywhere with a comprehensive SASE solution by integrating cloud-delivered SD-WAN with Security Service Edge (SSE).
ENHANCE HYBRID, MULTI-CLOUD
Enable secure, seamless, faster connectivity to the cloud, in the cloud, and between clouds.
PREDICT APP PERFORMANCE
Enable reliable user experience on any transport with rich routing and advanced WAN remediation for self-healing networks.
ACHIEVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES
Automate design, deployment, and operation with a single pane of glass for network-wide visibility, analytics, reporting, and orchestration.
FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN supports the seamless convergence of SD-WAN and AI-powered security using a single, consistent operating system, FortiOS. Fortinet uniquely delivers a unified security and management framework for users and networks based on ASIC-accelerated SD-WAN, ZTNA, and SASE to support high-performance prevention. SD-WAN network transformation initiatives require an evaluation of all internet-facing security as well as local segmentation. Fortinet's powerful combination of deep SSL packet inspection and DNS/URL/Video filtering, AV, inline sandbox, IPS, and IoT/OT security services offers the best protection.
FortiGuard Antivirus Service
Protects against the latest polymorphic attacks, viruses, malware (including ransomware), and other threats.
FortiGuard Data Loss Prevention Service
Enterprise DLP services protect against data breaches, insider threats, and data exfiltration. Explore FortiGuard DLP Service to safeguard sensitive information and ensure compliance with over 500 data patterns.
FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service
Performs AI-powered real-time inspection of files for protection against unknown threats, zero-days, and sophisticated file-based attacks.
FortiGuard AntiSpam Service
Dramatically reduces spam at the perimeter through a multi-layered approach to filtering unwanted and malicious email.
FortiGuard Application Control Service
Allows the creation of policies to allow, deny, or restrict access to applications and keep malicious, risky, and unwanted applications out of the network.
FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service
Assesses and rates your Security Fabric infrastructure and controls against best practices and major security and compliance frameworks. Includes coverage for connected IoT devices.
FortiGuard DNS Security Service
Provides full visibility into DNS traffic while blocking high-risk domains including malicious newly registered domains (NRDs) and parked domains.
FortiGuard IPS Service
Utilizes the latest threat intelligence to perform deep packet inspection/SSL inspection of network traffic to detect and block malicious traffic and activities.
FortiGuard OT Security Service
Extends IPS protections to identify and police most of the common ICS/OT/SCADA protocols to detect and block exploits targeting OT vulnerabilities.
FortiGuard URL Filtering Service
Uses AI-powered behavior analysis and correlation to block unknown malicious URLs almost immediately, with near-zero false negatives.
FortiGuard Anti-botnet and C2 Service
Blocks unauthorized attempts to communicate with compromised remote servers for both receiving malicious commands and extracting information.
Models and Specifications
Available in all form factors including physical and virtual appliances. Flexible capacity enables the highest application experience. FortiManager can be used to monitor and manage FortiGate appliances and is also available in different form factors including hardware, virtual, and SaaS.
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Total Savings of 34% over 3 Years
This calculation is for estimation purposes only and doesn't account for legacy router maintenance cost.
FortiCare Support & Professional Services for SD-WAN Users
Fortinet is dedicated to helping our customers succeed, and every year FortiCare services help thousands of organizations get the most from their investments in Fortinet's products and services. To achieve this, FortiCare follows the life-cycle approach and provides unique services to help our customers in their success journeys.
Technical Support Services
Various per-device options are available for efficient operations. FortiCare Elite option provides a 15-minute response time for critical products.
Advanced Support
Various per-account white glove services are available to reduce disruption and increase productivity with operational reviews by designated experts.
Professional Services
Our multi-vendor experts can design and deploy a complete best practice-based solution to help you meet your network or security objectives and adopt new capabilities.
RMA
Priority RMA options are available across the product family for expedited replacement of defective hardware to meet your availability objectives.
