Reasons why Datanet recommends Fortinet

Datanet recommends Fortinet to secure your racks and networks. Here we explain why.

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Datanet recommends Fortinet to secure your racks and networks

In November ’20 Fortinet were yet again named a leader for network firewalls in the “Gartner Magic Quadrant”.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a series of market research reports published by IT consulting firm Gartner that rely on proprietary qualitative data analysis methods to demonstrate market trends, such as direction, maturity and participants. Their analyses are conducted for several specific technology industries and are updated every 1–2 years.

Fortinet FortiGate firewalls are part of an overall security-driven networking strategy that helps networking and security leaders to better manage security risks, reduce overall cost and complexity, and improve operational efficiency.

To get your copy of the latest Gartner Quadrant report just fill out the contact form with your messahe and we will send you your copy.

Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls

Connect and Protect your business applications and staff with the Fortinet FortiGate range of Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) with Unified Threat Protection (UTP), these new high performance firewalls are suitable for data centre and branch office deployment

Datanet can supply and configure your Fortigate NGFW to protect your business and get your staff connected by VPN, give us a call at Datanet now to get your business connected and protected, meanwhile here are a couple of relevant security articles from Fortinet:

    • Cyber distancing from our attackers

    We have all been practicing social distancing this last year to protect against viruses and illness. Likewise, we should consider cyber distancing ourselves from our attackers.

    Keep your cyber distance by staying wary of suspicious requests, unknown attempts at contact, and unsolicited information and be the protector of your information, your networks, and your health with the Fortinet FortiGate range of NGFW from Datanet.

    Datanet can help, we have chosen Fortinet to protect your infrastructure and, at the same time, provide VPN’s for your staff and branch offices together with the highest level of security and functionality.

    • Protects against malware, exploits and malicious web sites using deep packet inspection of applications in or inbound to your network
    • Protects against known and unknown attacks by using continuous threat intelligence powered by FortiGuard Labs
    • Provides industry leading performance and protection for SSL encrypted traffic
    • Best of breed SD-WAN capabilities along with advanced networking capabilities
    • Integrates with your Active Directory to remove the hassle of managing credentials and can also support 2 factor authentication for additional security
    • Packs a powerful punch for any cloud infrastructure or corporate WAN thanks to the RISC based CPU and Fortinet’s proprietary Security Processing Unit (SPU)
    • Industry best threat protection performance and ultra-low latency using ASIC security processor
    • Optionally available with a “Bypass WAN/LAN” mode such that during maintenance or if the unit went into fault mode, traffic would continue to flow (albeit unprotected), also available with Dual Power Supply, WiFi and SFP ports making this a truely reliable and resilient NGF
    • With the rising popularity of 1Gb connections, for cloud hosting and ROBO mid size offices, don’t be held back by a firewall that just doesn’t cut it, get yourself a Fortinet FortiGate
    • WiFi coverage on data centre floor
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