Fortinet, has introduced a remarkable new approach to managing not only cybersecurity, but your entire network infrastructure. Called a “security fabric,” it’s an architecture that weaves together all the moving parts of your cybersecurity solution—enabling you to manage different products from different vendors as one cohesive whole.
When you consider the complexity of modern networks and the changing threat environment, the Fortinet security fabric is a real game changer.
Many business networks, for example, are protected by a patchwork of cybersecurity products from different vendors—with few (if any) designed to interoperate. Even when products can interoperate, each comes with its own unique interface, preventing you from managing it in a unified way from a central point of command.
The end result is a clunkier, less effective implementation of your security strategy that slows your ability to detect and address security risks as they come. These are serious limitations when IT already struggles to protect a growing number of threat vectors on network attack surfaces that have expanded with the emergence of trends such as mobile devices, the IoT, cloud computing, software defined networks (SDNs) and BYOD (to name a few).
Fortinet Security Fabric Weaves Together Security Products From Different Vendors
Helping customers overcome the challenges of complex network and threat environments is what inspired Fortinet to design the new security fabric. It works as a unifying communications layer that enables security solutions from different vendors to share actionable threat information and perform security functions, cooperatively. In a nutshell, it provides all the advantage of a tightly woven, seamlessly collaborative network security solution, including:
- Scalability — A truly comprehensive security strategy has both depth and breadth. With the Fortinet security fabric, you can scale your cybersecurity solution not only to meet volume and performance demands; but also laterally to track and secure data across endpoints, your distributed network and data center, as well as the cloud.
- Awareness – Thanks to end-to-end network segmentation, the security fabric gives you the visibility to inspect inbound, outbound and east-west traffic across the network—so you can respond faster to threats and control who and what has access to where.
- Security – The security fabric acts as a single collaborative entity from a policy and logging perspective to improve the sharing of real-time global threat intelligence and mitigation tactics across security solutions.
- Actionable intelligence – With Fortinet’s cloud-based, big data global threat intelligence system, the security fabric delivers consistent, actionable threat information to every device it supports, so they can respond to threats in a coordinated fashion.
- Open – To protect your existing security investments, the Fortinet security fabric offers a series of open APIs to let third party products become a part of it at critical interaction points such as the hypervisor, SDN orchestration controller, cloud and sandbox.
Managing multiple security products from multiple security vendors is a challenge that adds to the complexity of fighting threats. Who needs it when the Fortinet Security Fabric can weave together your existing security solutions into a truly cohesive, simple-to-manage security platform?
Xiologix can help you customize a security fabric to fit your environment. Contact us to get started.
