Fortinet FortiGate® Appliances Earn Coveted “Recommend” Ratings from NSS Labs in Next
Generation Firewall, IPS, and Network Firewall in NSS Labs Group Tests
Fortinet’s Enterprise-Class
Triple Play
Fortinet recognized for delivering outstanding enterprise
management, security effectiveness, and TCO
Fortinet’s FortiGate family of consolidated network security appliances delivered proven enterprise-class performance and protection in three NSS Labs’ independent tests for Next-Generation Firewall, Network IPS, and Enterprise Firewall. NSS Labs tested three FortiGate appliances in real-world tests, and awarded each the coveted ‘Recommend” rating for providing “a very high level of protection, manageability and value for money”. To achieve NSS Labs’ highest rating, the FortiGate-3600C, FortiGate-3240C, and FortiGate-800C had to satisfy enterprise requirements for performance, accuracy, and manageability.
FortiGate-800C
uPerformance: 9.7 Gbps
uLatency: 5 µs @ 64 Byte packets
uSecurity & management effectiveness: 100% uFirewall policy protection: 100%
uStability & reliability: 100%
uResistance to evasion techniques: 100% uTCO: $4 per protected Mbps
Network IPS Group Test
FortiGate-3240C
uPerformance: 6.3 Gbps
uLatency: 6.4 µs @ 128 Byte packets uSecurity effectiveness: 96%
uStability and reliability: 100%
uResistance to evasion techniques: 100% uTCO: $20 per protected Mbps
Next-Generation Firewall Group Test
FortiGate-3600C
uPerformance: 7.6 Gbps
uLatency: 3 µs @ 64 Byte packets uProtection: 97.1%
Barracuda F800 Check Point 12600
Cyberoam CR2500iNG Dell SonicWALL NSA 4500
Fortinet FortiGate-800c Juniper SRX550
NETASQ NG1000-A
NETGEAR ProSecure UTM9S
Palo Alto Networks PA-5020
Sophos UTM 425 Stonesoft FW-1301 WatchGuard XTM 1050 Average Average 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% $1 $2 $4 $8 $16 $32 $64 $128 $256 $512 $1,024 $2,048 $4,096 $8,192
Enterprise Management & Security Effectiveness
TCO per Protected-Mbps
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Block Rate
100% 95% $0 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85% 90% $100 $90 $80 $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 $110Price per Protected-Mbps
Average V alue Average Protection McAfee XC Cluster IBM GX7800 Juniper IDP 8200 Juniper SRX 3600 McAfee M-8000 Fortinet FortiGate 3240C Stonesoft 1302 SonicWALL SuperMassive Palo Alto PA-5020
HP TippingPoint 6100 CheckPoint 12600
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a standalone security appliance as a pure Firewall or IPS, or Next Generation Firewall that includes firewall, IPS and application control. Additional applications such as virtual private network (VPN) or advanced threat detection, which uses behavioral-based detection in conjunction with a cloud-based reputation system that tracks botnets and elements of their threat life cycle, can easily be enabled and configured.
FortiASIC Innovation:
Enhanced Performance for
Every Customer Environment
Fortinet builds its products to address the tremendous pressure that network environments, including data centers, campus environments, remote offices and small businesses all face: delivering increased performance while increasing security. Fortinet delivers on these two essential criteria with the use of purpose-built processor technology to achieve unmatched performance and protection, at outstanding price-points for every market segment. These purpose-built processors eliminate the performance bottleneck that other firewalls experience, allowing FortiGate devices to deliver award-winning threat detection while keeping up with high performance, high volume environments. Fortinet’s custom “Content Processors” provide ultra high-speed content inspection for IPS and antimalware, while the company’s “Network Processors” accelerate network tasks such as Firewall or VPN. nNSS Labs is the only completely independent security research and analyst organization with in-house testing capabilities. NSS labs remains’ independent from publishers, carriers or product vendors. Additional information on NSS Labs, including their testing methodologies, is available on the NSS Labs web page – www.nsslabs.com
