Network Security

Web Application Firewall - FortiWeb

The FortiWeb Web Application Firewall provides specialized, layered application threat protection for medium and large enterprises, application service providers, and SaaS providers. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall protects your web-based applications and internet-facing data from attack and data loss. Using advanced techniques to provide bidirectional protection against malicious sources, application layer DoS Attacks and Sophisticated Threats like SQL injection and Cross-site scripting.

FortiWeb platforms help you prevent identity theft, financial fraud and denial of service. It delivers the technology you need to monitor and enforce government regulations, industry best practices, and internal policies.

Comprehensive Web Application Security with FortiWeb

Using an advanced multi-layered and correlated approach, FortiWeb provides complete security for your external and internal web-based applications from the OWASP Top 10 and many other threats. Using IP Reputation services, botnets and other malicious sources are automatically screened out before they can do any damage. DoS detection and prevention keeps your applications safe from being overloaded by Layer 7 DoS attacks. FortiWeb checks that the request hasn’t been manipulated using HTTP RFC validation. Requests are checked against FortiWeb’s signatures to compare them against known attack types to make sure they’re clean. Any files, attachments or code are scrubbed with FortiWeb’s built-in antivirus and antimalware services. FortiWeb’s auto-learning behavioral detection engine reviews all requests that have passed the tests for known attacks. If the request is outside of user or automatic parameters, the request is blocked. Lastly, FortiWeb provides a correlation engine where multiple events from different security layers are correlated to make a more accurate decision and help protect against the most sophisticated attacks. This combination provides near-100% protection from any web application attack, including zero day threats that signature file-based systems can’t detect.

Included Vulnerability Scanning

Only FortiWeb includes a web application vulnerability scanner in every appliance at no extra cost to help you meet PCI DSS compliance. FortiWeb’s vulnerability scanning dives deep into all application elements and provides in-depth results of potential weaknesses in your applications. Vulnerability scanning is always up-to-date with regular updates from FortiGuard Labs.

Blazing Fast SSL Offloading

FortiWeb is able to process up to tens of thousands of web transactions by providing hardware accelerated SSL offloading in most models. With near real-time decryption and encryption using ASIC-based chipsets, FortiWeb can easily detect threats that target secure applications.

Application Delivery and Authentication

FortiWeb provides advanced Layer 7 load balancing and authentication offload services. FortiWeb can easily expand your applications across multiple servers using intelligent, application aware Layer 7 load balancing and can be combined with SSL offloading for load balancing secure application traffic. Using HTTP compression, FortiWeb can also improve bandwidth utilization and user response times for content-rich applications. Authentication offloading integrates with many authentication services including LDAP, NTLM, Kerberos and RADIUS with 2-factor authentication for RADIUS and RSA SecureID. Using these authentication services, you can easily publish websites and use Single Sign On (SSO) for any web application including Microsoft applications such as Outlook Web Access and SharePoint. Finally, FortiWeb can improve application response times by caching often-used content to serve it users faster than having to request the same information each time it is needed.

Secured by FortiGuard

Fortinet’s Award-winning FortiGuard Labs is the backbone for many of FortiWeb’s layers in its approach to application security. Offered as 3 separate options, you can choose the FortiGuard services you need to protect your web applications. FortiWeb IP Reputation service protects you from known attack sources like botnets, spammers, anonymous proxies, and sources known to be infected with malicious software. FortiWeb Security Service is designed just for FortiWeb including items such as application layer signatures, malicious robots, suspicious URL patterns and web vulnerability scanner updates. Finally, FortiWeb offers FortiGuard’s top-rated antivirus engine that scans all file uploads for threats that can infect your servers or other network elements.

Virtual Patching

FortiWeb provides integration with third party vulnerability scanners to provide dynamic virtual patches to security issues in application environments. Vulnerabilities found by the scanner are quickly and automatically turned into security rules by FortiWeb to protect the application until developers can address it in the application code.

Central Management and Reporting

FortiWeb offers the tools you need to manage multiple appliances and gain valuable insights on attacks that target your applications. From within a single management console you can configure and manage multiple FortiWeb gateways using our VMware-based central management utility. If you need an aggregated view of attacks across your network, FortiWeb easily integrates into our FortiAnalyzer reporting appliances for centralized logging and report consolidation from multiple FortiWeb devices.