Fortinet FortiGate 51G
Converged Next-Generation Firewall and SD-WAN

FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services

FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services is part of Fortinet’s layered defense and tightly integrated into our FortiGate NGFWs and other products. Infused with the latest threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs, these services protect organizations against modern attack vectors and threats, including zero-day and sophisticated AI-powered attacks.

• Network and file security
• Web/DNS security
• SaaS and data security
• Zero-Day threat prevention
• OT security

FortiOS Everywhere

FortiOS, Fortinet’s Real-Time Network Security Operating System

FortiOS is the operating system that powers Fortinet Security Fabric platform, enabling enforcement of security policies and holistic visibility across the entire attack surface. FortiOS provides a unified framework for managing and securing networks, cloud-based, hybrid, or a convergence of IT, OT, and IoT. FortiOS enables seamless and efficient interoperation across Fortinet products with consistent and consolidated AI-powered protection across today’s hybrid environments.

Unlike traditional point solutions, Fortinet adopts a holistic approach to cybersecurity, aiming to reduce complexities, eliminate security silos, and improve operational efficiencies. By consolidating security functions into a single platform, FortiOS simplifies management, reduces costs, and enhances overall security posture. Together, FortiGate and FortiOS create intelligent, adaptive protection to help organizations reduce complexity, eliminate security silos, and optimize user experience.

By integrating generative AI (GenAI), FortiOS further enhances the ability to analyze network traffic and threat intelligence, detects deviations or anomalies more effectively, and provides more precise remediation recommendations, ensuring minimum performance impact without compromising security.

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Fortinet ASICs: Unrivaled Security, Unprecedented Performance

Powered by the only purpose-built SPU

Traditional firewalls cannot protect against today’s content and connection-based threats because they rely on off-the-shelf general-purpose central processing units (CPUs), leaving a dangerous security gap. Fortinet’s custom SPUs deliver the power you need to radically increase speed, scale, and efficiency while greatly improving user experience and reducing footprint and power requirements. Fortinet’s SPUs deliver up to 520 Gbps of protected throughput to detect emerging threats and block malicious content while ensuring your network security solution does not become a performance bottleneck.

Fortinet ASICs are designed to be energy-efficient, leading to lower power consumption and improved TCO. They deliver industry-leading throughput, handle more traffic and perform security inspections faster, reduce latency for quicker packet processing and minimize network delays.

Fortinet SPUs are designed with integrated security functions like zero trust, SSL, IPS, and VXLAN to name but a few, dramatically improving the performance of these functions that competitors traditionally implement in software.

Secure SD-WAN ASIC SP5

• Combines a RISC-based CPU with Fortinet’s proprietary SPU content and network processors for unmatched performance
• Delivers the industry’s fastest application identification and steering for efficient business operations
• Accelerates IPsec VPN performance for the best user experience on direct internet access
• Enables best-of-breed NGFW security and deep SSL inspection with high performance
• Extends security to the access layer to enable SD-Branch transformation with accelerated and integrated switch and access point connectivity

Unified Management for Optimal Security and Efficiency

Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, Fortinet provides centralized control, visibility, and automation for your security infrastructure.

• FortiManager: Centralized management at scale for distributed enterprises
• FortiGate Cloud: Simplified management for small and mid-size businesses

FortiConverter Service

Migration to FortiGate NGFW made easy

The FortiConverter Service provides hassle-free migration to help organizations transition quickly and easily from a wide range of legacy firewalls to FortiGate NGFWs. The service eliminates errors and redundancy by employing best practices with advanced methodologies and automated processes. Organizations can accelerate their network protection with the latest FortiOS technology.

Perimeter Protection

• Protect networks from malicious traffic, guard against file-based threats, block web-based attacks, and secure applications and data with natively integrated FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services
• Inspect and control incoming and outgoing traffic based on defined security policies
• Perform real-time SSL inspection (including TLS 1.3) with full visibility into users, devices, and applications across the attack surface
• Accelerate performance, protection, and energy efficiency with Fortinet’s patented SPU with converged security and networking technologies

Secure SD-WAN

• FortiGate enables best-of-breed WAN edge with integrated SD-WAN, WAN optimization, security, and unified management from a single FortiOS operating system
• FortiGate, built on a patented SD-WAN-based ASIC, delivers faster application identification to avoid delays in accessing applications and accelerates overlay performance regardless of location
• Enhances hybrid working with a comprehensive SASE solution by integrating clouddelivered SD-WAN with security service edge (SSE)
• Achieves operational efficiencies at any scale through automation, deep analytics, and selfhealing

Secure Branch

• The Fortinet Security Fabric platform enables FortiGate NGFWs to automatically discover and secure IoT devices for faster branch onboarding
• Fully integrated with FortiSwitch secure Ethernet switches and FortiAP access points, FortiGate easily extends security to WAN, LAN, and WLAN at branch offices for unified protection and reliable connectivity
• FortiGate and Fortinet products work seamlessly with FortiManager to centralize visibility and simplify management across locations for IT teams
• FortiGate HA support ensures continuous network protection and minimizes downtime in the event of hardware failures or network disruptions

Interfaces

1. 1 x USB Port
2. 1 x Console Port
3. 1 x GE RJ45 WAN Port
4. 1 x GE RJ45 FortiLink Port
5. 3 x GE RJ45 Ethernet Ports

Superior Wireless Coverage

A built-in dual-band, dual-stream access point is integrated on the FortiWiFi 50G series, which provides the industry’s high-speed WiFi-6 (802.11ax) wireless access.

Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

The FortiGate 50G series features a dedicated module that hardens physical networking appliances by generating, storing, and authenticating cryptographic keys. Hardware-based security mechanisms protect against malicious software and phishing attacks.

Access Layer Security

FortiLink protocol enables you to converge security and network access by integrating the FortiSwitch into the FortiGate as a logical extension of the firewall. These FortiLink-enabled ports can be reconfigured as regular ports as needed.

Compact and Reliable Form Factor

Designed for small environments, the FortiGate can be on a desktop or wall-mounted. It is small, lightweight, yet highly reliable with superior meantime between failures, minimizing the chance of network disruption.

Signed Firmware Hardware Switch

The signed firmware switch is a physical security switch. It is by default set to the highest security level. The highest security level ensures that only an appropriately validated FortiOS firmware can be loaded on the FortiGate. This feature adds an additional physical layer of security to the FortiGate, acting as a key deterrent to and reducing risk of compromise.