Fortinet firewalls provide network security solutions that address the most critical needs facing businesses today.

Operating on the recently introduced FortiOS 4.0 operating system, the FG-80C/CM also boasts data leakage prevention, SSL inspection, and application control to offer protection against Web 2.0 threats and evasive applications and users.

FortiGate features:

In addition to being a high performance firewall, FortiGate appliances offer a range of additional features:

• Antivirus - Prevents, detects, and removes malware, including computer viruses, worms, spyware and trojans
• Intrusion prevention - Monitors network activity for malicious or unwanted behaviour and reacts, in real-time, to block or prevent those activities
• Anti spam - Used to detect and block unwanted email with high degree of accuracy
• Web filtering - Enables administrators to enforce policies based on website content categories, ensuring users are not accessing content that is inappropriate for their environment
• Virtual Private Network - VPN technology provides secure communications between offices, end users and networks, using both SSL and IPSec protocols
• Traffic shaping - Where bandwidth is a limited resource, traffic shaping helps businesses prioritise and manage network services
• Application control - Control which web applications are allowed or denied on your network
• WAN optimisation - Uses a combination of caching and optimisation to accelerate the performance of applications across a WAN

FortiGuard subscription services

Fortinet's family of FortiGuard subscription services (anti-virus, Intrusion Prevention (IPS), anti-spam, web filtering etc) provide customers with the latest security updates in real-time, no matter where customers are located around the world. Fortinet security platforms are guaranteed to receive the latest antivirus, IPS, and antispam signatures as soon as possible, for complete real time network protection. Set it up once and let the updates arrive automatically. You can also select the frequency of messages received.