A world leader in high-performance
network security, Fortinet®, recently introduced the FortiDDoS product family for
enterprises, web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A,
FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that are designed to
detect and help protect against today’s most damaging and sophisticated DDoS
attacks. The appliances feature custom ASICs that are capable of mitigating
DDoS attacks while maintaining incredibly-low latency (less than 26
microseconds), preventing loss of availability to critical systems, servers and
applications.
“This launch is significant because as systems
become more inter connected, the need for greater network protection against
targeted DDoS attacks become more pronounced,” said Jeff Castillo, Fortinet's
Country Manager for the Philippines.
“This specialized protection ensures customer confidence and decreases
the liability of Philippine enterprises in the long term.”
Providing granular real-time network traffic
visibility and automatic protection against targeted DDoS attacks, the
FortiDDoS appliances will be the only solution on the market that supports
network virtualization and automatic and continuous traffic baselining. Network
virtualization helps prevent attacks on one segment of the network from
affecting other segments, thereby preserving availability in virtualized
environments of datacenters and cloud-based service providers. The automatic
traffic baseline model building is also unique, enabling the FortiDDoS products
to build a network behavior model initially and adaptively update it
continuously with practically no end-user intervention, resulting in
significantly reduced administrative overhead.
“DDoS attacks aren’t just an annoyance and minor
inconvenience, they are a serious problem that could cause significant
liability to businesses today,” said Michael Xie, chief technology officer and
vice president of engineering at Fortinet. “The damage from a DDoS attack can
include loss of revenue, loss of customer confidence, loss of brand equity and
potentially huge legal liabilities. A FortiDDoS appliance installed in front of
a network infrastructure can act as a shield against DDoS attacks.”
FortiDDoS appliances are easy to deploy and manage,
and are designed to recognize today’s attack vectors and deliver
hardware-accelerated performance to block attacks quickly.
“Fortinet appliances’ support of virtual instances
is a valuable feature,” said Michael Suby, Stratecast vice president of
research at Frost and Sullivan. “This feature is not only beneficial in
supporting multiple layers of defense but also is a cost containment and
administration-friendly feature for organizations that have multiple Web
properties to protect, and need unique policies for each. Virtual instances can
also be effectively used in defense escalation. Rather than have a single set
of policies, multiple policy sets can be defined in advance, such that the
organization can apply a more stringent set of policies if the preceding
policies were inadequate.”
Hacktivism via botnets and network testing
applications has increased significantly in the last year, which has led to an
increase in volumetric and application layer attacks. These attacks bring down
sites by filling up Internet pipes and overloading application servers. As
businesses consume more software as a service (SaaS) offerings and other public
cloud-based services, DDoS attacks have become a serious concern for CIOs and
CSOs whether they are moving to the cloud or keeping their systems and data
on-premise.
The most common motivations for DDoS attacks today
are either financial or political. Financially motivated attackers seek to
extort funds from sites by launching an initial attack and demanding payment to
avoid future attacks. Politically motivated attackers launch an attack in
response to an organization’s policies by disrupting the victim’s business
operations. Regardless of the motive, any downtime affects not only a victim
organization’s customers, partners and employees, but can damage its brand and
credibility as well.
FortiDDoS Highlights
All FortiDDoS appliances feature eight virtualized network partitions with
independent protection policies for virtualized environments, automatic traffic
profiling and rate limiting context-aware policy enforcement for maximum
effectiveness. They also provide real-time and historic attacking traffic analysis
that delivers unmatched granular visibility on top attacks, top sources and top
attackers. The FortiDDoS family will also utilize an innovative design that
eliminates a common performance bottleneck by ensuring there is no CPU or
operating system in the path of the packets.
• The FortiDDoS-100A features 1 Gbps full-duplex
anti-DDoS throughput, four 1GbpsRJ-45 copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN
connectivity and one terabyte of storage. This model can be used to protect 2
Internet links.
• The FortiDDoS-200A features 2Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, eight
1Gbps RJ-45 copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN connectivity, a redundant
power supply and two terabytes of RAID storage. This model can be used to
protect up to 4 Internet links.
• The FortiDDoS-300A features 3Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, twelve
1Gbps RJ-45 Copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN connectivity, a redundant
power supply and two terabytes of RAID storage. This model can be used to
protect up to 6 Internet links.
Fortinet acquired technology powering these
products through its asset purchase from Silicon Valley-based IntruGuard
Devices, Inc., which occurred during Q1 2012. The terms of asset purchase are
confidential and the amount paid by Fortinet as consideration for the assets is
considered immaterial to Fortinet’s business.
Availability
The FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are scheduled for release
immediately.
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