FortiGate VM provides award-winning protection from a broad array of network threats. Running the same OS as FortiGate NGFW hardware appliances, it enables you to enforce consistent security policies across private, public, and telco clouds. FortiGate VM is an essential component for building your hybrid mesh firewall infrastructure, allowing you to protect applications no matter where they are deployed.
Powered by AI-driven threat intelligence, FortiGate VMs provide industry-leading threat protection at scale. FortiGuard Labs uses machine learning algorithms and AI to analyze vast amounts of data and identify emerging threats in real time. Additionally, behavioral analysis powered by AI enables the identification of anomalous activities, aiding in the proactive mitigation of potential cyberattacks.
A firewall is only as effective as its ability to detect threats. CyberRatings, an independent, nonprofit security testing organization tested FortiGate VM. It detected 100% of threats tested in the CyberRatings 2022 Cloud Firewall Report and received the highest possible rating.
Download ReportFortiGate VM is a key part of Fortinet’s hybrid mesh firewall infrastructure, enabling you to enforce the same security policies with the same tools and share analytics wherever your compute resides.
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Proven Security
Get the most effective firewall available, according to independent testing
Zero-trust enforcement
Increase security with continuous enforcement of zero-trust policies
Cloud-native integration
Reduce friction across cloud deployments with built-in integrations across major cloud platforms
Cloud & Platform Agnostic
Deploy and run supported solutions in any cloud, virtualized data center, or on-premises deployment
SD-WAN
Gain fast, scalable, flexible secure SD-WAN on-premises and in the cloud, included in FortiGate NGFWs
Automation
Automate deployment, management, and response programmatically or through automation stitches
Fortinet has been recognized as a Leader again, and is positioned highest in Ability to Execute, marking our 13th year in the Magic Quadrant™.
We feel FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls deliver the industry’s best ROI, provide AI/ML-powered threat protection, and support the convergence of networking and security.
With all features and functions built on a single operating system, FortiOS, organizations have access to consistent functionality across all solutions and form factors, including appliances, virtual environments, and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).
FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s cybersecurity threat intelligence and research organization is comprised of experienced threat hunters, researchers, analysts, engineers, and data scientists. This elite team develops and enhances FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services including inline malware prevention, IPS, and DLP. FortiGuard Labs also provides valuable expert help through FortiGuard Expert-driven Security Services. Learn more about FortiGuard AI-powered Security Bundles for FortiGate.
Protects against the latest polymorphic attacks, viruses, malware (including ransomware), and other threats.
Enterprise DLP services protect against data breaches, insider threats, and data exfiltration. Explore FortiGuard DLP Service to safeguard sensitive information and ensure compliance with over 500 data patterns.
Dramatically reduces spam at the perimeter through a multi-layered approach to filtering unwanted and malicious email.
Allows the creation of policies to allow, deny, or restrict access to applications and keep malicious, risky, and unwanted applications out of the network.
Assesses and rates your Security Fabric infrastructure and controls against best practices and major security and compliance frameworks. Includes coverage for connected IoT devices.
Provides full visibility into DNS traffic while blocking high-risk domains including malicious newly registered domains (NRDs) and parked domains.
Utilizes the latest threat intelligence to perform deep packet inspection/SSL inspection of network traffic to detect and block malicious traffic and activities.
Extends IPS protections to identify and police most of the common ICS/OT/SCADA protocols to detect and block exploits targeting OT vulnerabilities.
Performs AI-powered real-time inspection of files for protection against unknown threats, zero-days, and sophisticated file-based attacks.
Uses AI-powered behavior analysis and correlation to block unknown malicious URLs almost immediately, with near-zero false negatives.
Blocks unauthorized attempts to communicate with compromised remote servers for both receiving malicious commands and extracting information.
"Overall it's a very good product having rich set of securities and easy to use and deploy... it can be easily integrated with other products in Fortinet Family.”
“Price of the Devices: Great price for the power, throughput and performance. Easy to use: Really great UI and intuitive menu, options, etc. Performance: no performance issues even if all the UTM features are turned on.”
"Fortigate provides robust and reliable performance. Their interface is intuitive and allows for centralized management wich really saves us time. Security features are the best among what we tested. Built-in VPN is the cherry on top."
“The Fortigate firewalls offer great performance for their price point in comparison to other vendors. They have an amazing security research team to make sure you are at the leading edge of the threat landscape. The integration of their products so that they can work together through the security fabric is amazing.”
"The product is truly exceptional, I have introduced the Fortinet NGFW in my organization for specific application requirement after preliminary assessment and Fortinet Product Advanced Features for DPI like Application Control & Industrial Signtaure, Intrusion Prevention system as well as Antivirus helped me to bring adequate security measures." Reliability: Fortinet's firewalls are designed to be reliable and to provide high uptime. The company's firewalls have a variety of features to help
"The product is better than expected. The performance of the hardware is much better than the equivalent other vendors, its easy to manage and troubleshoot"
"I have utilized numerous vendors for endpoint security and edge devices including xx and others. Fortinet, by far is superior providing intuitive user interfaces and superlative customer and technical support."
"We wanted to secure our networks, after a penetration testing from an outside company, we were told that our network is very secure thanks to FortiGate."
"We deployed this NGFW at our main office 11 months ago and have enjoyed the simplicity and security it affords. IPsec tunnels to remote offices and cloud are consistent and VPN users are stable and visible through the dashboard."
"Simplicity in management and configuration. Same OS available on any model from the little one to big chassis: easy hw upgrade path without any need for reconfiguration."
"In my organization is important to be protected in all ways, for this reason I like complement security with different types of tools and brands. I have worked with several NGFW brands, and although they all have pros and cons, FortiGate is one of my favorites, mainly because it is among one of the world leaders and because of the SD-WAN solution since it balances the load professionally. FortiGate is scalable and has allowed us to grow without any problem."
"We have been using the Fortinet Fortigate solution for 4 years now, it's a stable, robust solution. It's deploy on all our sites, including one where we use the cluster in active / active mode and it works perfectly. The use of FortiEMS allows us to make our workstations compliant and protect. The whole system is easy to manage."
"Excellent quality product Easy to setup to use and set up & we are highly recommend this product"
"The FortiGate firewall offers comprehensive threat protection for your business. FortiGate offers variety of features to protect your organization from cyberattacks. It delivers high performance and advanced security. " "Excellent price-performance ratio, The equipment has a high performance in terms of security, has a very friendly user interface, Fortinet remains at the highest levels in terms of innovation keeps"
"Excellent price-performance ratio, The equipment has a high performance in terms of security, has a very friendly user interface, Fortinet remains at the highest levels in terms of innovation keeps"
"My overall experience working on Fortinet NGFW is simply Great. It provide great level of flexibility by easy admin portal."
"Using more than 5 year fortigate devices. Hardware and cloud services. NGFW, APs and etc. I would like to express our sincere apprecation for your service to us as one of our most reliable company"
"great product, very easy to use and very good support"
"Solid team in the Nordic region. Invests heavily in supporting the local market"
"Fortinet is pioneer of secure networking, can scale to any location (ROBO, campus, and Datacenter)"
FortiGate-VM next-generation firewall can be deployed as a virtual appliance in private and public cloud environments, either as a BYOL instance or provisioned on-demand via public cloud marketplaces. Learn more about FortiGuard AI-powered Security Bundles for FortiGate.
Download the brief - Performance as a key attribute of Virtual Firewalls.
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12 Gbps |
| vCPU | 1x vCPU core, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
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12 Gbps |
| vCPU | 1x vCPU core, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
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15 Gbps |
| vCPU | 2x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
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28 Gbps |
| vCPU | 4x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
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33 Gbps |
| vCPU | 8x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
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36 Gbps |
| vCPU | 16x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
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50 Gbps |
| vCPU | 32x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
| vCPU | Unlimited vCPU cores and RAM |
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Various per-account white glove services are available to reduce disruption and increase productivity with operational reviews by designated experts.
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Our multi-vendor experts can design and deploy a complete best practice-based solution to help you meet your network or security objectives and adopt new capabilities.
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Priority RMA options are available across the product family for expedited replacement of defective hardware to meet your availability objectives.
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Because the market adoption of cloud, remote work, and virtualized platforms is growing fast, it introduces many network security challenges across the expanded attack surface. Organizations must establish a proper security posture across the cloud network infrastructure to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and increase agility.
Learn how service providers can cost-effectively secure, automate and customize their NFV environments using Fortinet’s VMware Ready for NFV solution.
Explore Fortinet’s line of virtual appliance solutions, which deliver unmatched protection and flexibility to enterprise data center and cloud deployments.
Explore how Fortinet secures your hybrid networks and increases operational efficiency with unified management across all firewall deployments providing a coordinated response to threats. Hybrid Mesh Firewall: The future of network security revolutionizing your defense strategy.
Fortinet's FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) on Azure provides state-of-the-art protection and automated management for consistent policy enforcement and visibility. Our Enterprise-class solution for Microsoft Azure users protects application workloads beyond basic Azure security services. Fortinet’s Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) enables the broadest protection and automated management for consistent enforcement and visibility across your hybrid #cloud infrastructure. Try it free for 30-days on Azure Marketplace.
Fortinet has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls, recognized in the Magic Quadrant for the 13th time, and positioned with the highest Ability to Execute.
Fortinet provide complete integration with VMware's NSX-T Data Center 2.4/2.5, securing East-West and North-South traffic flows across virtualized datacenters, private and public clouds.
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With moving to public clouds and modernizing data centers at the heart of this transformation, care and attention must be given to ensuring that your networks and data are secure and that security can be easily managed across clouds and data centers.
There are a number of considerations to be made by organizations in order to ensure security of their cloud deployments, and they vary from simple to complex undertakings. Here are some essential guidelines to enable organizations to prioritize their investments and build out a strategic roadmap to deploy their cloud network and security.
Today’s security systems need to be able to absorb and analyze information from a multitude of sources: IPS/IDS, firewalls, end-points, web application firewalls, email gateways and sandbox appliances. Collections of individual security products simply can’t compete with the complete integration Fortinet’s Advanced Threat Protection solution provides your network.
Discover the power of converged security and networking with the FortiGate-VM self-guided demo.
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