With all of the features available in the FortiGate operating system, such as our antivirus, web filtering, IPS and antispam, together with the newer additions such as SSL VPN, DLP, WAN Optimization, etc., it is easy to overlook some of the lesser known features our solution provides. I wanted to mention our load balancing capability [...]
by Carl Windsor | March 4, 2010 at 10:02 am
Let’s admit, whilst IPSec VPN has traditionally been the standard for secure remote access it has never been the easiest to configure. The client software installation, pre-shared key distribution and the inevitable debugging due to the myriad of options and overly aggressive port filtering by your access provider has caused many an administrator, if not [...]
by Carl Windsor | March 2, 2010 at 10:54 am
I’ve been asked to provide a little more information on what else we can provide in the web filtering space, particularly when it comes to service providers and how they can solve one of the main problems when considering a residential web filtering service. We have provided a way of dynamically provisioning the web filtering [...]
by Michael Xie | February 24, 2010 at 10:16 am
While web filtering provides a company with the ability to limit where users visit on the the Internet, what if some users – managers, guests or whole departments – needed access to these categories or subsets of those categories? What if you still want your users or employees some level of freedom? After all, a [...]
by Michael Xie | February 17, 2010 at 10:19 am
At Fortinet, we have created an innovative approach to web filtering that combines the advantages of cloud-based services with a layered response caching option – our FortiGuard web filtering services. FortiGuard data centers around the world contain a massive URL categorization database. These data centers receive rating requests from FortiGate units, typically, through browser-based URL [...]
by Michael Xie | February 16, 2010 at 9:50 am