Network perimeter & FortiGate engineering
Fortinet firewall design that protects every network edge.
Clear policy, inspected traffic, and one standard across every site.
How traffic is inspected
Six decisions between the internet and your network
Untrusted traffic
Internet, partner links, and remote users
Policy check
Identity, application, and zone rules
SSL inspection
Encrypted sessions decrypted where policy allows
Threat prevention
Intrusion prevention and antivirus
Web & app control
Category and application filtering
Protected segments
LAN, servers, DMZ, and cloud
Benefits and capabilities
One security fabric from branch to cloud
Next-generation firewalling
Application-aware policy and intrusion prevention on FortiGate.
Secure SD-WAN
Fast, protected branch connectivity on one platform.
Remote access
VPN or zero trust access tied to your identity provider.
High availability
Clustered firewalls with tested failover.
Central management
Consistent policy with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.
Technical features
Specification
- Platform
- FortiGate appliances and FortiGate-VM on FortiOS
- Security services
- Application control, IPS, web filtering, SSL inspection
- Connectivity
- Secure SD-WAN, IPsec, and SSL VPN
- Resilience
- Active-passive and active-active HA clusters
- Visibility
- FortiAnalyzer logging and reporting
- Hybrid cloud
- FortiGate-VM and VPN integration with Microsoft Azure
Implementation approach
Four steps to a clean cutover
- 1
Review
Audit the rule base and topology.
- 2
Design
Define zones, HA, and logging.
- 3
Cut over
Migrate in phases, with a rollback path.
- 4
Maintain
Manage firmware and review policy.
Business use cases
When teams call us
Move rules across with clean-up rather than copying years of unused exceptions onto new hardware.
Give each site consistent security and resilient connectivity, managed from one place.
Extend network policy into the cloud with a protected path between on-premises sites and Azure.
Separate users, servers, and sensitive systems so one compromise cannot reach everything.
Firewall review
Find out what your firewall is really allowing
Get a clear view of rule base risks, gaps, and upgrade options.