Why choose Fortinet?

In today's complex, hybrid environment, cybersecurity and networking can no longer be treated as separate functions. Fortinet excels because it provides a single, unified, and high-performance platform—the Fortinet Security Fabric—that seamlessly converges security with networking across all edges.

Fortinet's Security Fabric is designed to deliver broad, integrated, and automated protection across the entire digital attack surface, including network, application, cloud, and endpoint security. This unified approach enables organizations to effectively defend against sophisticated cyber threats while ensuring optimal performance and user experience.

Key features of Fortinet's Security Fabric include:

  • Comprehensive Security Coverage: Fortinet offers a wide range of security solutions, including next-generation firewalls, secure SD-WAN, endpoint protection, email security, web application firewalls, and more. This comprehensive portfolio allows organizations to address diverse security needs with a single vendor.

  • Integrated and Automated Solutions: The Fortinet Security Fabric integrates various security components, enabling seamless communication and coordination between them. This integration allows for automated threat detection and response, reducing the time it takes to identify and mitigate cyber threats.

  • High Performance and Scalability: Fortinet's solutions are built on a high-performance architecture that can handle the demands of modern networks. Whether deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, Fortinet's solutions can scale to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes.

  • Centralized Management and Visibility: Fortinet provides centralized management tools that offer comprehensive visibility into the entire security infrastructure. This centralized approach simplifies administration and enables organizations to enforce consistent security policies across all environments.

  • Strong Ecosystem and Partnerships: Fortinet has a robust ecosystem of partners and integrations with leading technology vendors. This ecosystem enhances the capabilities of the Fortinet Security Fabric and allows for seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure.

Fortinet Security Fabric

By choosing Fortinet, organizations can benefit from a unified security platform that not only protects against evolving cyber threats but also enhances network performance and operational efficiency. Fortinet's commitment to innovation and customer success makes it a trusted choice for businesses looking to secure their digital assets in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Chosing Fortinet means moving beyond siloed security solutions to a holistic approach that integrates security and networking, providing comprehensive protection for the entire digital attack surface. Fortinet provides a security posture that is:

  • Integrated and Unified: The entire portfolio (firewalls, switches, access points, management tools) runs on a single operating system, FortiOS. This enables a unified, automated response to threats across the entire network from a central management console.

  • Integrated and Unified: The entire portfolio (firewalls, switches, access points, management tools) runs on a single operating system, FortiOS. This enables a unified, automated response to threats across the entire network from a central management console.

  • Performance-Driven: Fortinet's custom-built Security Processors (SPUs) deliver industry-leading throughput, especially for demanding tasks like Deep SSL/TLS Inspection. You get top-tier security without creating network bottlenecks or sacrificing user experience.

  • Automation-Ready: With tools like FortiManager and the open API architecture, the platform is designed to automate security operations (SecOps) and network operations (NetOps), drastically reducing human error and freeing up your team's time.

  • AI-Powered Threat Protection: Leveraging global threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs, the platform uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to proactively detect and neutralize sophisticated threats, including zero-day attacks, in real-time.

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Our Fortinet Expertise

At HBnet, we specialize in Fortinet's comprehensive security fabric. Our expertise covers everything from implementing FortiGate firewalls to managing the entire Fortinet suite to secure your network end-to-end.

Our team of certified Fortinet professionals has extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing Fortinet solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients that span more than 10 years. We understand that every organization has different security requirements, and we work closely with our clients to develop customized strategies that align with their business goals.

We help clients with the entire Fortinet lifecycle, including:

  • Assessment and Planning: We conduct thorough assessments of your current security posture and network architecture to identify vulnerabilities and areas for improvement. Based on this analysis, we develop a comprehensive Fortinet implementation plan that addresses your specific security needs.

  • Architecture and Design: Building the blueprint for a complete Security Fabric solution, covering everything from campus LAN to multi-cloud environments.

  • FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Implementation: We specialize in deploying and configuring FortiGate NGFWs to provide robust perimeter security. Our team ensures that your firewalls are optimized for performance and security, with features such as intrusion prevention, application control, and web filtering.

  • Fortinet Network Access Layer: Our expertise does not simply stop at the firewall or network perimeter. We also specialize in implementing Fortinet's network access solutions, including switches and wireless access points. This ensures secure and seamless connectivity for users and devices across your entire network.

  • Fortinet Remote Access: We assist organizations implement secure remote access solutions using Fortinet's VPN and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) technologies. This enables employees to securely connect to corporate resources from anywhere, while maintaining strict access controls.

  • Fortinet Management, Monitoring and Analysis: We assist organisations in setting up and managing Fortinet's centralized management and monitoring tools, such as FortiCloud, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer. This provides comprehensive visibility into your security infrastructure, enabling proactive threat detection and response.

  • Automation Integration: We leverage Fortinet's open API architecture to integrate security operations (SecOps) and network operations (NetOps) automation into your existing workflows, reducing manual tasks and improving efficiency.

Solutions we implement

We implement a wide range of Fortinet solutions to address various security challenges. Some of the key solutions we specialize in include:

Fortigate and Hybrid Mesh Firewall

Fortigate is not only Fortinet's flagship next-generation firewall (NGFW), it is also the core of Fortinet's holistic security offering, and as such provides advanced threat protection and secure connectivity to your entire network. We deploy and configure FortiGate firewalls to protect your network perimeter, data centers, and cloud environments. Additionally, we implement Fortinet's Hybrid Mesh Firewall architecture, which combines traditional perimeter security with distributed security enforcement at the edge, ensuring consistent protection across all network segments.

Secure SD-WAN

Unlike many other security vendors, Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN is not an add-on, it is intead a core feature of their Next Generation Firewall offering. This means that it offers a holistic, integrated solution to managing multiple WAN/Internet connections across your entire network. Some features and benefits include:

  • Application-Aware Intelligent Steering: By leveraging the extensive FortiGuard network, Fortigate SD-WAN is able to identify thousands of applications and protocols right from the very first packet. This information can be used, not only to apply security to network traffic, but can also be used to intelligently steer traffic over specific network links (using SD-WAN traffic rules and SLAs), helping you to provide a world class experience to your users.

  • Advanced Security: Because SD-WAN is integrated into the core security product, it can effortlessly apply this security protection, both at the network edge and on your internal network, providing network administrators with the peace of mind that not only is their traffic being handled in the most optimal fashion, but that this traffic is also secured according to world-class standards.

  • Advanced Inter-site Routing: Fortinet SD-WAN can leverage advanced technologies such as Auto Discover VPN (ADVPN) to automatically find the most optimal route for inter-site traffic, and can automatically configure, bring up and tear down shortcut routes between sites, resulting in optimal routing of network traffic while reducing the load on hub sites.

  • Centralised Orchestration: By leveraging FortiManager, Fortinet's central management and orchestration tool, organisations can centrally manage and orchestrate SD-WAN deployments scaling up to complex implementations spanning multiple sites for true Zero-Touch Provisioning and automation.

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FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer

FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer form the basis of Fortinet's central management, analysis administration and orchestration offering. Use FortiManager to centrally manage your entire Fortinet deployment, including Fortigate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, and many other parts of the Fortinet Security Fabric. This allows true Single Pane Of Glass management of your entire network.

Use FortiAnalyzer to perform in-depth analysis on and reporting of your network security environment, including intelligent, Machine Learning based traffic pattern recognition, analysis and reporting capabilities. By integrating FortiAnalyzer into your network security fabric you can leverage features such as automatic recognition of potential network device or endpoint compromise and automatically quarantine these devices while alerting administrators for remediation.

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FortiSwitch and FortiAP

By utilising FortiSwitch and FortiAP as part of their network security fabric, administrators are able to extend the rich and robust security offering, applying these features not just at the network edge or firewall level, but by also extending this functionality to the LAN Edge.

FortiSwitch

FortiSwitch and FortiAP allows administrators to apply security scannign and filtering at the point of origination of LAN traffic, and incldues, but is not limited to, the ability to quarantine network clients or devices right at the network switch port level, or to force all traffic to traverse Fortigate for security scanning, even within the same network broadcast domain. This allows administrators to easily control lateral East-West traffic within the LAN, thereby limiting the ability for malicious traffic to spread in the network.