Fortinet secures NEC cloud platform

SUNNYVALE, USA: Fortinet, dealing in high-performance network security, announced its FortiGate network security platform has been selected by NEC as the next generation firewall for its MasterScope Virtual DataCenter Automation cloud platform software. The NEC software supports automatic configuration, deployment and operation of cloud environments within enterprise and service provider data centers.

The MasterScope Virtual DataCenter Automation software is linked to the company's programmable flow controller PF6800 and enables centralized control of virtual servers and virtual networks. NEC's cloud platform makes it possible to automate operations for changing network settings arising from virtual server retrieval requests from users, a process that has up until now been time consuming for server administrators.

Fortinet's FortiGate network security platform is the first third-party next-generation firewall to be certified by NEC to protect its cloud platform. Since 2010, NEC and Fortinet have worked together to deploy the FortiGate platform as the security resource in the SDN environments NEC has built. Today, the integration of FortiGate in MasterScope Virtual DataCenter Automation represents another step in enhancing the security of SDN environments in the cloud.