Fortinet Expands Security Portfolio with Debut of Web Application/XML Firewall Appliance

Fortinet® announced the debut of a new web security appliance that provides application and XML firewalling to protect, balance and accelerate web applications, databases and the information exchanged between them. The new FortiWeb-1000B is a mid- to large-enterprise product and is the first in a family of Fortinet web application security appliances. FortiWeb^TM appliances can drastically reduce the deployment time and complexities associated with securing web-based applications, and can also aid companies in meeting regulatory mandates such as PCI-DSS compliance. Together with Fortinet's FortiDB^TM database security product, the FortiWeb-1000B forms the basis for a broad protection schema to support the growing prevalence of cloud computing and other enterprise activities that have a need to access confidential and personal data over the Internet or intranets.

Web applications are essentially a public interface to databases storing sensitive information, so the need to secure this interface is as critical as securing the databases themselves. While many web applications today have built-in security protocols, writing secure web application code is difficult and often not the priority of the developer. In addition, there are a number of challenges to securing the code of various web applications:  New vulnerabilities, patching schedules, code revisions, code access, vulnerability identification and deployment timelines. The ideal scenario would separate the security of the web application from the application itself to enforce uniform security measures regardless of the level of security built into the web application and provide an umbrella of security protection across a number of web applications. The FortiWeb-1000B web security appliance is ideal for medium and large enterprises, ASPs, and Software-as-a-Service/cloud computing providers. Key benefits of the FortiWeb-1000B are Web applications secured; Deployment simplified; Content accelerated; Resources load balanced and Compliance achieved.