Fortinet pumps up FortiManager capacity
FortiManager-3000 enables enterprises, managed security service providers and carriers to centrally configure, manage and monitor very large scale tiered security deployments, Fortinet said.
The FortiManager-3000 system centralizes configuration and monitoring of all FortiGate security functions, which include antivirus, Web content filtering, firewall, VPN, dynamic intrusion detection and prevention, antispam, spyware blocking and traffic shaping. Administrators can create policies and rules and apply them to multiple FortiGate units automatically. They can also group FortiGate devices into management domains and assign those domains to different administrators, restricting their authority.
As with the existing FortiManager-400, the new product's client-server architecture is composed of the FortiManager Console and the FortiManager Server. The server can support multiple consoles. The FortiManager Console is a platform-independent Java client and supports Windows NT, 2000 and XP. It sports a Web-based GUI and supports all the system management and policy-definition features.
The rack-mountable FortiManager Server is a security-hardened appliance with two Gigabit Ethernet ports and an RS-232 console connection port. The server contains an integrated relational database for storage of device configurations. The FortiGate units can automatically inherit policies.
Encrypted communication and mutual authentication are used between the server and the FortiGate firewall units.
FortiManager-3000 is available now. Pricing starts at $24,995 for 25 nodes.