Fortinet Fortigate Network Security

As an IT professional concerned with network security, you’re confronted by a constantly–evolving array of threats and increasing compliance requirements. But you have to balance your ability to manage this dynamic “threat–scape” against many other imperatives, including cost, limited data center space, manageability, and environmental concerns.

Driven by space, power, budget, and other constraints, consolidation has become both a tactical and strategic imperative for enterprise IT professionals at all levels. The benefits of consolidation, whether physical or virtual, are well known: lower cost, less power consumption, improved manageability, and a better environmental footprint among them.

Most of the buzz about consolidation concentrates on its application to the data center as a whole, or to application servers. But this focus overlooks an area where consolidation offers even more dramatic advantages: network security. Consolidating network security with a UTM platform delivers profound improvements in its ability to accomplish its fundamental task: managing the diverse range of threats that confront enterprise networks.

Consolidating network security also delivers notable cost benefits. According to Gartner (Gartner: Cost Cutting While Improving IT Security, March 20, 2008), the most important way information security organizations will save money in 2008 is by leveraging the convergence of established security functions into network–or host–based security platforms that provide multiple layers of security in a single product to protect against an evolving multitude of network and content threats. In fact, Gartner estimates that, by 2010, only 10% of emerging security threats will require tactical point solutions, compared with 80% in 2005.

Consolidation via Fortinet's FortiGate multi–threat security platform reduces the capital and operational expenses of purchasing, managing and maintaining a multitude of different solutions and provides a scalable, flexible path for future adoption of additional security functions without the need to purchase additional hardware. This enables reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and preservation of your security investment. Deployment of Fortinet's consolidated network security platform means fewer devices in your data center—translating into a more efficient use of hardware, ventilation and power consumption and an overall smaller carbon footprint.

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