Addressing Today’s Risks Requires Reliable Threat Intelligence

February 22, 2019 | 109 views

Security sprawl is a real challenge for most organizations, especially now as networks are expanding and evolving rapidly, and security resources are increasingly limited. If you’re like most companies, you’ve loaded your wiring closet with a hodge-podge of perimeter defenses over the years. Most of these tools operate in isolation, watching a particular gateway looking for specific types of threats. You try and keep your antivirus and antimalware systems updated, patch and update your systems with some regularity, and try to stay posted about active threats. You’ve also likely added some rudimentary tools to try and spot rogue insiders, and added various filters and password protections to stop your employees from clicking on things they shouldn’t.

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Empowering Industry 4.0 with Artificial Intelligence

Article | July 14, 2022

The next step in industrial technology is about robotics, computers and equipment becoming connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and enhanced by machine learning algorithms. Industry 4.0 has the potential to be a powerful driver of economic growth, predicted to add between $500 billion- $1.5 trillion in value to the global economy between 2018 and 2022, according to a report by Capgemini.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Businesses

Article | July 14, 2022

Whilst there are many people that associate AI with sci-fi novels and films, its reputation as an antagonist to fictional dystopic worlds is now becoming a thing of the past, as the technology becomes more and more integrated into our everyday lives. AI technologies have become increasingly more present in our daily lives, not just with Alexa’s in the home, but also throughout businesses everywhere, disrupting a variety of different industries with often tremendous results. The technology has helped to streamline even the most mundane of tasks whilst having a breath-taking impact on a company’s efficiency and productivity

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The advances of AI in healthcare

Article | August 8, 2022

With the Government investing £250 million into the project, the Lab will consider how to use AI for the benefit of patients – whether this be the deployment of existing AI methods, the development of new technologies or the testing of their safety. Amongst other things, the initiative will aim to deliver earlier diagnoses of cancer. It is estimated that in excess of 50,000 extra patients could see their cancer being detected at an early stage, thus boosting survival rates. More specifically, a study has shown that AI is quicker in identifying brain tumour tissue than a pathologist.This would have a positive knock-on effect in other areas, such as enabling money to be saved (that otherwise would have been spent on further treatment) and reducing the workload of staff (at a time when there is a crisis in NHS workforce numbers).

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Three Keys to Successful AI Adoption

Article | February 10, 2020

Over the past several years, we have begun to see the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses. According to a study for the AI Index 2019 Annual Report, more than half of respondents report their companies are using AI in at least one function or business unit. Thirty percent report they have AI embedded across multiple areas of their business. As businesses continue to develop their understanding of what is possible with AI, we can expect to see a continued increase in AI adoption.

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Fortinet Introduces New Next-Generation Firewalls

SecurityWeek | February 07, 2019

Fortinet this week announced new FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), which help customers improve security through implementing Intent-based Segmentation. The newly announced firewalls, namely FortiGate 3600E, FortiGate 3400E, FortiGate 600E and FortiGate 400E Series, provide a robust security architecture that doesn’t rely on a single enforcement point, the network security firm says. With Intent-based Segmentation, which results in granular access control, continuous trust assessment, end-to-end visibility, and automated threat protection, the new security appliances allow organizations achieve adaptive security by segmenting IT assets, thus having multiple enforcement points. The new FortiGate NGFWs, Fortinet says, are part of its Security Fabric, delivering integrated and consistent security policy across both on-premise and cloud assets. Customized Security Processor Units (SPUs) ensure that full visibility and advanced threat protection are available without performance loss. According to Fortinet, the new solutions can deliver the industry’s highest SSL inspection performance for their class. The FortiGate 3600E Series delivers performance of 30Gbps of threat protection throughput and 34Gbps of throughput with SSL inspection. The FortiGate 3400E Series provides 23Gbps of threat protection and 30Gbps SSL inspection performance, while the FortiGate 600E Series achieves up to 7Gbps of threat protection and 8Gbps SSL inspection performance, and the FortiGate 400E Series can support up to 5Gbps of threat protection and 4.8Gbps of SSL inspection performance.

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Fortinet Introduces Intent-Based Next-Gen Firewalls

SDxCentral | February 06, 2019

Fortinet today released a family of next-generation firewalls that feature intent-based segmentation. The company says that this approach provides organizations with a granular level of security control by matching functionality to specific use cases and business requirements. The four next-generation firewalls in the family are the FortiGate 3600E, the FortiGate 3400E, the FortiGate 600E and the FortiGate 400E. “The thing that’s new here is the support for the different types of segmentation,” ZK Research Principal Analyst Zeus Kerravala told SDxCentral. He said that next-generation firewalls long have been used for segmentation, mostly at the macro and occasionally endpoint levels. The Fortinet platform adds micro and application/process segmentation. This means that separate platforms are not necessary to perform these tasks. Fortinet, which has been on a good run lately, has taken segmentation a step further. The idea is that different levels of security are needed in different scenarios. Fortinet’s next-generation firewalls enable this. “The other thing that’s new here is ‘Intent based’ segmentation where customers can align their segmentation strategy with business intent,” Kerravala wrote in an email. “For example, the business may want to tier cloud access and Fortinet will automate [the entire] configuration.” Thus, an organization that needs extra levels of security around financial or medical databases, or in other ways needs to modulate its security posture, can do so efficiently and at comparatively low costs. “Intent-based segmentation allows enterprises to segment flat-networks intelligently in accordance with business outcomes that will achieve improved security posture, mitigate risks, compliance and operational efficiency,” Nirav Shah, Fortinet senior director of network security, told SDxCentral.

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Fortinet Security-First Approach to SD-WAN Continues to Gain Momentum

DQINDIA | January 02, 2019

Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, announced recent customer, partner and market momentum, as well as independent testing results, of its FortiGate Secure SD-WAN solution. Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India and SAARC at Fortinet says “In today’s threat landscape, security can never be an afterthought in any network deployment. Fortinet’s focused innovations and evolution of best-of-breed SD-WAN with in-built next-generation firewall provides the advanced threat protection necessary for direct internet connectivity. Our philosophy of tightly integrating security and SD-WAN functionality together minimizes management complexity, ensures a safer deployment and helps reduce costs. It’s clearly resonating with customers and we’re seeing rapid adoption of FortiGate Secure SD-WAN.” Fortinet’s FortiGate Secure SD-WAN solution delivers the functionality provided by pure-play SD-WAN vendors with advanced security built into one single offering. It’s backed by independent testing to deliver excellent quality of experience for voice and video, high VPN throughput and best price/performance. At Fortinet, SD-WAN functionality has been organically developed in-house and is a feature of every FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall. Purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs further ensure that security is an integral part of Fortinet’s SD-WAN solution.

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Fortinet Introduces New Next-Generation Firewalls

SecurityWeek | February 07, 2019

Fortinet this week announced new FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), which help customers improve security through implementing Intent-based Segmentation. The newly announced firewalls, namely FortiGate 3600E, FortiGate 3400E, FortiGate 600E and FortiGate 400E Series, provide a robust security architecture that doesn’t rely on a single enforcement point, the network security firm says. With Intent-based Segmentation, which results in granular access control, continuous trust assessment, end-to-end visibility, and automated threat protection, the new security appliances allow organizations achieve adaptive security by segmenting IT assets, thus having multiple enforcement points. The new FortiGate NGFWs, Fortinet says, are part of its Security Fabric, delivering integrated and consistent security policy across both on-premise and cloud assets. Customized Security Processor Units (SPUs) ensure that full visibility and advanced threat protection are available without performance loss. According to Fortinet, the new solutions can deliver the industry’s highest SSL inspection performance for their class. The FortiGate 3600E Series delivers performance of 30Gbps of threat protection throughput and 34Gbps of throughput with SSL inspection. The FortiGate 3400E Series provides 23Gbps of threat protection and 30Gbps SSL inspection performance, while the FortiGate 600E Series achieves up to 7Gbps of threat protection and 8Gbps SSL inspection performance, and the FortiGate 400E Series can support up to 5Gbps of threat protection and 4.8Gbps of SSL inspection performance.

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Fortinet Introduces Intent-Based Next-Gen Firewalls

SDxCentral | February 06, 2019

Fortinet today released a family of next-generation firewalls that feature intent-based segmentation. The company says that this approach provides organizations with a granular level of security control by matching functionality to specific use cases and business requirements. The four next-generation firewalls in the family are the FortiGate 3600E, the FortiGate 3400E, the FortiGate 600E and the FortiGate 400E. “The thing that’s new here is the support for the different types of segmentation,” ZK Research Principal Analyst Zeus Kerravala told SDxCentral. He said that next-generation firewalls long have been used for segmentation, mostly at the macro and occasionally endpoint levels. The Fortinet platform adds micro and application/process segmentation. This means that separate platforms are not necessary to perform these tasks. Fortinet, which has been on a good run lately, has taken segmentation a step further. The idea is that different levels of security are needed in different scenarios. Fortinet’s next-generation firewalls enable this. “The other thing that’s new here is ‘Intent based’ segmentation where customers can align their segmentation strategy with business intent,” Kerravala wrote in an email. “For example, the business may want to tier cloud access and Fortinet will automate [the entire] configuration.” Thus, an organization that needs extra levels of security around financial or medical databases, or in other ways needs to modulate its security posture, can do so efficiently and at comparatively low costs. “Intent-based segmentation allows enterprises to segment flat-networks intelligently in accordance with business outcomes that will achieve improved security posture, mitigate risks, compliance and operational efficiency,” Nirav Shah, Fortinet senior director of network security, told SDxCentral.

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DQINDIA | January 02, 2019

Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, announced recent customer, partner and market momentum, as well as independent testing results, of its FortiGate Secure SD-WAN solution. Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India and SAARC at Fortinet says “In today’s threat landscape, security can never be an afterthought in any network deployment. Fortinet’s focused innovations and evolution of best-of-breed SD-WAN with in-built next-generation firewall provides the advanced threat protection necessary for direct internet connectivity. Our philosophy of tightly integrating security and SD-WAN functionality together minimizes management complexity, ensures a safer deployment and helps reduce costs. It’s clearly resonating with customers and we’re seeing rapid adoption of FortiGate Secure SD-WAN.” Fortinet’s FortiGate Secure SD-WAN solution delivers the functionality provided by pure-play SD-WAN vendors with advanced security built into one single offering. It’s backed by independent testing to deliver excellent quality of experience for voice and video, high VPN throughput and best price/performance. At Fortinet, SD-WAN functionality has been organically developed in-house and is a feature of every FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall. Purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs further ensure that security is an integral part of Fortinet’s SD-WAN solution.

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