Fortinet builds on multi-threat security product family

SUNNYVALE, USA: Fortinet, a provider of network security  and unified threat management (UTM) solutions on Monday announced its newest multi-threat security appliance purpose-built for large enterprise and data center environments.

According to a company release, the new appliance is the latest to join the FortiGate-3000 series product family, and integrates high-performance firewall capabilities with advanced unified threat management protection in a single system to help protect organizations' vital assets. This multi-function integration provides customers with flexible configuration and deployment options that can help consolidate stand-alone security devices and greatly reduce operating costs and capital expenditures.

The versatile FortiGate-3040B appliance delivers up to 40 Gbps of exceptionally low latency, wire-speed firewall inspection performance to meet increasingly demanding data center security requirements. It also comes standard with eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports to provide high bandwidth connectivity to the security gateway and delivers up to 17 Gigabits-per-second of virtual private network (VPN) performance, all in a single, compact 2-RU appliance form factor. Fueling this high performance is Fortinet's innovative FortiASIC network processors.

The FortiGate-3040B is the entry level model of Fortinet's FortiGate-3000 series, designed especially for enterprises and high-end deployments. The FortiGate-3000 series of multi-threat security appliances delivers unmatched performance, flexibility, and security. This family of appliances is built from the ground up with high performance custom hardware and an innovative architecture, combined with the seamlessly integrated multi-threat security included in every FortiGate.