Establish a Full Security Fabric to Replace Ineffective Security Measures

With changes happening left, right, and center, network needs are transforming on a routine basis. Businesses are propelled into challenges they have never considered before such as the internet of things, BYOD, the Cloud, and big data. With these new challenges comes a slew of security concerns for organizations.

To combat evolving security needs, many companies add new security devices to networks, which can quickly complicate and overburden capacities. What many fail to realize is that complexity and security are not friends. When security solutions have their own management interfaces, there is no effective way to distribute information with other devices on your network.Create a Full Security Fabric for Your Organization with Fortinet

The Security Fabric offered by Fortinet is the answer to your complex network and gaping security solutions. This comprehensive Fabric integrates technologies for endpoints, access layers, networks, content, applications, and more. Want to know the best part? It only needs a single management interface.

The Fortinet Security Fabric is built on five key principles:

1) Scalable: No matter how far your business operations stretch online, the Fabric will protect your business. A proper security strategy needs to address depth and breadth issues to meet volume and performance demands from end-users. The Fortinet Security Fabric provides seamless protection across your company, inspects packet data, enforces application protocols, and analyzes unstructured content at wire speeds.

2) Aware: To reduce the risks to your business from advanced threats, the Fabric acts as one entity, enabling end-to-end segmentation. Data is inserted into your network and deleted every day. Not only must you keep track of all comings and goings, but you need to see what it does once it is inside the perimeter of your network. The deep visibility and extended control that the Fabric presents will reduce your organization’s vulnerability.

3) Secure: To be properly protected from online threats, all the security elements of your network must work together to produce true visibility and control. A security strategy is useless if it cannot identify and respond to threats—known and unknown. What it needs to do is gather threat intelligence in real-time from the network, and share it among devices for a coordinated response. A cooperative detection and response plan is next to impossible to achieve if your organization relies on an array of individual products to meet your security needs.

4) Actionable: What good is a product if it does not address one or more of your needs? The Fortinet Security Fabric is designed to respond and adapt to threats by leveraging actionable threat intelligence. The ForitManager provides management and orchestration services, FortiCare delivers critical response services, and FortiCloud brings the security fabric into your cloud. Besides being able to fully integrate the Fabric with Cloud and SDN architecture, it is the most adopted security by service providers.

5) Open: Because your business is on the ball, you have already invested in network and security infrastructure. However, the Fabric can extend the functionality and intelligence of your existing infrastructure. When it comes to security solutions, Fortinet likes to collaborate and has developed a series of APIs, such as Sandbox, Logging, and Policy management, to enhance your business’ response, visibility, and control online.

A successful security strategy is one that has both depth and breadth, which is what the Fortinet Security Fabric can bring to you. By focusing on scalability, awareness, openness, actions, and security, this Fabric will deliver exactly what you need to address the issues plaguing your complex network while securing your business against a complex threat landscape.