Fortinet’s award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time — without degrading network performance.

The FortiGate systems deliver a full range of network-level services — firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping — as well as application-level services such as antivirus and content filtering, in dedicated, easily managed platforms.

A growing percentage of so-called "content-based" network attacks, such as viruses, worms and Trojans, are being introduced into organizations via seemingly innocuous activities such as Web browsing. This trend is expected to continue as organizations turn increasingly to real-time communications, like Web applications and instant messaging, as the means to remain responsive and competitive. Unfortunately, conventional network protection systems, such as firewalls and host-based antivirus software, lack the dedicated hardware required to perform the deep packet analysis, content reassembly, and application-level screening necessary to detect these threats without imposing unacceptable delays on real-time network applications. As a result, most organizations are dangerously exposed to content-based attacks from real-time traffic.

Fortinet’s FortiGate series of Antivirus Firewalls for the first time provides cost-effective systems that deliver complete network-level and content-level protection at the network edge with real-time performance. Each member of the scalable, flexible FortiGate family is a dedicated, easily managed device that delivers a full suite of capabilities, which include ICSA-certified virus protection and content filtering, along with network-level services including firewall, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, VPN and traffic shaping functions.

With 11 patents pending, FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls employ Fortinet’s Accelerated Behavior and Content Analysis System (ABACAS™) technology, which leverages breakthroughs in chip design, networking, security and content analysis. The unique, ASIC-based architecture analyzes network content and behavior in real-time, enabling all key network services — including real-time Web applications — be screened for both network and content-level threats without impacting network performance.

With models spanning from SOHO to service providers, the FortiGate family spans the full range of network environments and offers cost effective systems for any environment.

Fortinet´s Series for Large Enterprises and Service providers, which includes the FortiGate-5000 Series, FortiGate-3000 and FortiGate-3600 Antivirus Firewalls, delivers best-of-breed, network-based antivirus protection. They can provide real-time antivirus protection for email and Web traffic in conjunction with existing firewall, VPN and IDS systems, or can be deployed for full network protection services with a simple configuration change. These gigabit-capacity units are designed to meet the most stringent requirements for performance and reliability, and include redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans to minimize single-point failures, and also support redundant fail-over with no interruption in service. The high capacity, reliability and easy management of units in this series make them natural choices for managed service offerings.

FortiGate-5000 Series

The FortiGate-5000 systems are a family of chassis based modular systems that provide the highest scalability for Antivirus firewalls. Three chassis are available, a FortiGate-5020 (2 slot), FortiGate-5050 (5 slot) and the FortiGate-5140 (14 slot). The family also consists of three modules; a FortiGate-5001 Antivirus Firewall processing module, a FortiGate 5001E Antivirus Firewall module with enhanced VPN performance and a FortiGate-5003 Switch module. All members of the FortiGate-5000 family can contain multiple FortiGate-5001 modules but the FortiGate-5003 can only be used in the FortiGate-5050 and FortiGate-5140 chassis.

FortiGate-3600

The FortiGate-3600 Antivirus Firewall establishes a new level of price-performance for gigabit capacity network security systems. With six gigabit-capacity interfaces and up to 4 Gbps throughput, the FortiGate-3600 enables a new generation of protection against today's increasingly content-based attacks.

FortiGate-3000

The FortiGate-3000 Antivirus Firewall is a carrier-class device with three gigabit capacity ports and a full complement of network protection features. Multiple FortiGate 3000s can be deployed in redundant clusters to ensure nonstop operation.