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New Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study reveals 318% ROI and $10.6M in cost benefits achieved with the Fortinet Data Center cybersecurity solution.
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Overview

FortiGate Rugged Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) are purpose-built appliances with durability and resistance to protect organizations against cyberthreats in mission-critical industrial locations. Complying with industrial protocols and standards, FortiGate Rugged NGFWs give OT organizations a simple, affordable, and high-performance solution to securely interconnect infrastructure and users.

Power-efficient Performance for Securing Both OT and IT Infrastructures

Powered by purpose-built ASICs, FortiGate Rugged NGFWs offer a cost-effective solution that simplifies operations and meets all the essential security requirements out-of-the-box, while delivering top performance. Our Secure Networking approach means features like SD-WAN, switching and wireless, and 5G are integrated. FortiGate Rugged NGFWs reduce cost and complexity by eliminating point products and consolidating security capabilities in industrial environments.

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Reliable and Compact Appliances Built for The Most Demanding Environments

FortiGate Rugged NGFWs are all-in-one security appliances with enterprise-grade threat protection for securing crucial industrial networks against cyberthreats. These ruggedized firewalls comply with over 70 global industry standards and meet the security needs of a wide range of industrial applications and protocols, making it an ideal choice for OT businesses with a simple, affordable, and easily deployable solution to securely interconnect critical infrastructure and users.

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Converged IT/OT Security for Better Visibility and Control

FortiGate Rugged NGFWs run FortiOS, the foundation of the Fortinet Security Fabric. This enables unified networking and security across all IT and OT networks to ensure consistent policies and coordination. The FortiGate Rugged series gives you control over all connected devices, applications, and users. The FortiGuard Industrial Security Service provides specialized intrusion prevention system (IPS) signatures to detect and block malicious traffic targeting applications and devices in manufacturing, plant, safety, and other operational technology (OT) environments.

Features and Benefits

FortiGate NGFW is the world’s most deployed network firewall, delivering unparalleled AI-powered security performance and threat intelligence, along with full visibility and security and networking convergence. Ruggedized FortiGates are engineered to extend security and network connectivity to mission-critical industrial locations with harsh environmental conditions and include effortless deployment options.

ALIGNMENT WITH INDUSTRY STANDARDS

Helps OT organizations secure critical assets across the Purdue model hierarchy

BUILT FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS

Offers durability against harsh conditions like extreme temperature, humidity, shock, & vibration

SECURITY FABRIC INTEGRATION

Shares actionable threat intelligence across your attack surface for end-to-end security consistency

AI-POWERED SECURITY

Enables fast detection and response to known & unknown threats to safeguard network, devices, data

CENTRAL MANAGEMENT & AUTOMATION

Supports large-scale deployment & efficient operations with intuitive, central cloud management

LOWER TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

ShareIncludes SD-WAN & ZTNA for faster and more cost-effective connectivity

FortiGate Rugged NGFW Use Cases

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SECURE INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS
Built to protect mission-critical networks and applications in harsh environments without impacting performance.
Shadow IT
NETWORK SEGMENTATION
Acts as a conduit among zones and offers a secure pathway for communication to prevent unauthorized access to critical OT assets.
Convergence
CONVERGED PLATFORM
Gives you protection and visibility across sites with easy management of applications, devices, and access in a single dashboard.
Transform WAN and Security
SECURE SD-WAN
Delivers superior quality of experience and effective security posture for work-from-anywhere models, SD-Branch, and cloud-first WAN.
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UNIVERSAL ZTNA
Controls access to applications no matter where the user is or where the application is hosted for universal application of access policies.

Enterprise Analyst Validation

Forrester TEI Study: Fortinet NGFW for Data Center And AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services
2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls
The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022
The Forrester Total Economic Impact study demonstrates that the Fortinet NGFW for Data Center and AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services solution has a 318% return on investment, $10.55 million in savings benefits, and less than a 6 month payback period
Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study reveals 318% ROI and $10.6M in cost benefits achieved with the Fortinet Data Center cybersecurity solution.
In addition to a significant ROI, key results from the 2023 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting include improved networking and security performance, increased networking and security team efficiencies, end-user productivity gains, notable cost savings, and better sustainability.
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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls Figure 1. The figure ranks companies on their ability to execute and completeness of vision as of September 2022 on a scatter plot. Fortinet is in the upper right quadrant of Leaders.
Fortinet Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls

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).

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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022. The figure ranks companies based on the strength of their offering and their strategy on a scatter plot, with 10 providers being categorized into four waves: challengers, contenders, strong performers, and leaders. Fortinet is in the leader category.
Fortinet Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022

We are pleased to announce Fortinet has been named as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022 report.

We believe our position as a Leader is a testament to our investment in providing a next-generation firewall (NGFW) solution that serves as an enabler of digital acceleration, made possible through the convergence of advanced networking and security capabilities.

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FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services

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.

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Content Security
Web Security
Device Security
Application Security
SOC NOC Security
FortiGuard Antivirus Service
FortiGuard Antivirus Service

Protects against the latest polymorphic attacks, viruses, malware (including ransomware), and other threats.

FortiGuard Data Loss Prevention Service
FortiGuard Data Loss Prevention Service

Blocks intentional and accidental disclosures of sensitive data while addressing key requirements for data security associated with major frameworks.

FortiGuard AntiSpam Service
FortiGuard AntiSpam Service

Dramatically reduces spam at the perimeter through a multi-layered approach to filtering unwanted and malicious email.

FortiGuard Application Control Service
FortiGuard Application Control Service

Allows the creation of policies to allow, deny, or restrict access to applications and keep malicious, risky, and unwanted applications out of the network.

FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service
FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service

Assesses and rates your Security Fabric infrastructure and controls against best practices and major security and compliance frameworks. Includes coverage for connected IoT devices.

FortiGuard DNS Security Service
FortiGuard DNS Security Service

Provides full visibility into DNS traffic while blocking high-risk domains including malicious newly registered domains (NRDs) and parked domains.

FortiGuard IPS Service
FortiGuard IPS Service

Utilizes the latest threat intelligence to perform deep packet inspection/SSL inspection of network traffic to detect and block malicious traffic and activities.

FortiGuard OT Security Service
FortiGuard OT Security Service

Extends IPS protections to identify and police most of the common ICS/OT/SCADA protocols to detect and block exploits targeting OT vulnerabilities.

FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service
FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service

Performs AI-powered real-time inspection of files for protection against unknown threats, zero-days, and sophisticated file-based attacks.

FortiGuard URL Filtering Service
FortiGuard URL Filtering Service

Uses AI-powered behavior analysis and correlation to block unknown malicious URLs almost immediately, with near-zero false negatives.

FortiGuard Anti-botnet and C2 Service
FortiGuard Anti-botnet and C2 Service

Blocks unauthorized attempts to communicate with compromised remote servers for both receiving malicious commands and extracting information.

Case Studies

Berkeley County Commission
Berkeley County Commission
West Virginian County Commission Helps Keep Local Public Service IT Systems Up and Running with Fortinet
Wagner Corporation
Wagner Corporation
Australian Infrastructure Developer Centralizes LAN Device Management with FortiLAN Cloud
Anonymous Oil and Gas
Anonymous Oil and Gas
How Oil-and-Gas Producers Are Tackling Cybersecurity Threats
Arturo Calle
Arturo Calle
Colombian Fashion Retailer Strengthens Network Security with Fortinet Solutions

Gartner Peer Reviews

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★★★★★
"Stable and Reliable Firewall"

"We use FortiGate in our company's HQ and many of the branches across the country. For a company that deals mainly with sensitive customers data, we needed to make sure that our networks are protected by the best firewall solution that's available (also thanks to Gartner reviews)."

—  Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the Finance Industry
★★★★★
"Tons Of Value in a Small Package"

"We decided to deploy the full Fortinet network stack including FortiGate 60E's to all 90+ of our retail locations. We further deployed FortiGate 200E's in HA pairs to all datacenter locations. These UTM appliances are some of the best and most feature rich I have ever used."

—  Director of IT in the Retail Industry
★★★★★
"Delivered What We Were Looking For"

“Our experience with implementing this solution has been very satisfactory. We went with Fortinet for price and simplicity and have received what we were looking for." 

—  VP, Deputy CIO in the Finance Industry
★★★★★
"Strong Firewall Solution That Protects Your Business Systems"

"Very easy to implement and configure, especially if you already have other Fortinet products in your network they all bind in to the one "security fabric" and provide a great overview of all your network devices and events in your network. Also the price is superb for such product."

— Programmer in the Finance Industry
★★★★★
"NGFW That Needs To Be In Your Company"

"FortiGate NGFW is the main guard of our IT infrastructure. All network goes through it. It can easily handle all our traffic. Now, most of the employees are working from home so VPN is getting hit really bad, but that is not a problem for FortiGate."

— PHP Backend Developer in the Finance Industry

Models and Specifications

FortiGate Rugged NGFW is available in wired and wireless 3G/4G LTE models, complies with a wide range of global OT industry standards and protocols, helping OT teams to control connected devices and safeguard an organization’s mission-critical networks, data, assets, and users. Learn more about FortiGuard AI-powered Security Bundles for FortiGate.

FortiGate Rugged 70F
IP Rating
IP40
Network Interfaces
6x GE RJ45, 2x GE SFP slots, 1x bypass port pair
Modules
BLE, DIO, TPM
Threat Protection
581 Mbps
SSL Inspection Throughput
505 Mbps
FortiGate Rugged 70F 3G/4G
IP Rating
IP40
Network Interfaces
6x GE RJ45, 2x GE SFP slots, 1x bypass port pair, 1x cellular modem (dual-SIM – active/passive)
Modules
BLE, DIO, GPS, TPM
Threat Protection
581 Mbps
SSL Inspection Throughput
505 Mbps
FortiGate Rugged 60F
IP Rating
IP20
Network Interfaces
4x GE RJ45, 2x GE RJ45/SFP shared media ports, 1x bypass port pair
Modules
TPM
Threat Protection
500 Mbps
SSL Inspection Throughput
460 Mbps
FortiGate Rugged 60F 3G/4G
IP Rating
IP20
Network Interfaces
4x GE RJ45, 2x GE RJ45/SFP shared media ports, 1x bypass port pair, 1x cellular modem (dual-SIM – active/passive)
Modules
GPS, TPM
Threat Protection
500 Mbps
SSL Inspection Throughput
460 Mbps

FortiCare Support & Professional Services

Fortinet is dedicated to helping our customers succeed, and every year FortiCare services help thousands of organizations get the most from their investments in Fortinet's products and services. To achieve this, FortiCare follows the life-cycle approach and provides unique services to help our customers in their success journeys.

Technical Support Services

Technical Support Services

Various per-device options are available for efficient operations. FortiCare Elite option provides a 15-minute response time for critical products.

Advanced Support

Advanced Support

Various per-account white glove services are available to reduce disruption and increase productivity with operational reviews by designated experts.

Professional Services

Professional Services

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.

RMA

RMA

Priority RMA options are available across the product family for expedited replacement of defective hardware to meet your availability objectives.

Resources

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FortiGate Rugged Series Data Sheet
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A Security Approach for Protecting Converged IT and OT
A Security Approach for Protecting Converged IT and OT »

Operational technology (OT)* networks, which control equipment in critical infrastructure such as utilities and manufacturing assembly lines, have traditionally been kept separate from information technology (IT) networks, which control data in all organizations.

How to Use NERC-CIP: An Overview of the Standards and Their Deployment with Fortinet
How to Use NERC-CIP: An Overview of the Standards and Their Deployment with Fortinet »

This paper is a unique review of a few key products and how those products align with existing CIP regulation requirements. This paper also takes a look at how those products might aid an organization in the process of maintaining compliance and explores the product features that will help defend the organization’s program during an audit.

Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Fortinet NGFW For Data Center and AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services Solution
Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Fortinet NGFW For Data Center and AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services Solution »

Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) studies develop business-value justification analysis to help organizations understand the potential financial impact of a technology investment. Fortinet commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a TEI study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying the Fortinet NGFW for Data Center and AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services Solution.

Effective ICS Cybersecurity: Using the IEC 62443 Standard
Effective ICS Cybersecurity: Using the IEC 62443 Standard »

IEC 62443 is a set of Industrial Control System (ICS) security standards written by ICS experts for ICS owners, manufacturers and integrators across a range of applications and sectors. Evaluating assigned security levels within identified security zones and conduits against functional and system requirements provides a cohesive approach to security. Fortinet teamed with the SANS Institute to review the standard and the needs from technology that support implementation. With guidance from IEC 62443 and implementation of Fortinet’s solutions, you can address the security of an ICS strategically.

Managing ICS Security with IEC 62443
Managing ICS Security with IEC 62443 »

Standards give us a common vocabulary to help us understand a particular subject as well as solve a particular problem.

Implementation Guide for Vendors and Integrators Working in NERC-CIP Environments
Implementation Guide for Vendors and Integrators Working in NERC-CIP Environments »

Electric utilities around the world face numerous operational challenges and risks in maintaining system reliability and compliance.

Remove Blind Spots With FortiGate NGFW
Remove Blind Spots With FortiGate NGFW »

Enterprise firewalls have been forced to adapt to the new security challenges that come with digital transformation and a growing remote workforce.

Hybrid Mesh Firewalls Protect the Expanding Attack Surfaces of Distributed Sites
Hybrid Mesh Firewalls Protect the Expanding Attack Surfaces of Distributed Sites »

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) are part of a hybrid mesh firewall (HMF) solution that enables broad, integrated, and automated protection against emerging threats and increasing network complexity. FortiGate is an integral part of the Fortinet Security Fabric, an end-to-end security architecture designed to protect evolving networks.

Enable Deep Visibility for Applications, Users, and Devices with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls
Enable Deep Visibility for Applications, Users, and Devices with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls »

Today’s IT teams require deep visibility into applications, users, and devices in order to defend enterprise networks against cyberthreats, but this is often a challenge.

Ecosystem

For a complete list of all the Alliance partners go to www.fortinet.com/fabricready. Below is a list of current FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall Alliance Partners:

ADVA Optical Networking
ADVA Optical Networking

At ADVA Optical Networking, we're creating a new vision for a more connected world. Our award-winning network functions virtualization (NFV) solutions provide our customers with unprecedented choice and flexibility. Our ADVA Ensemble solution suite provides a comprehensive NFV architecture that includes programmable hardware, comprehensive software and end-to-end orchestration solutions.

Resources
Functionalities
SDN-NFV & Virtualization, Orchestration
Fortinet Fabric Ready
Advantech
Advantech

Advantech helps service providers and enterprises extend the cloud to the IoT edge by providing scalable network platforms that accelerate network transformation. Advantech network appliances and edge servers combined with Fortinet security software offer key foundational building blocks that will form the backbone of the new IoT economy.

Functionalities
SDN-NFV & Virtualization
Fortinet Fabric Ready
Aislelabs
Aislelabs

Aislelabs is a location analytics and marketing automation platform designed for brick & mortar enterprises across multiple verticals. Aislelabs products, deployed on Fortinet infrastructure, enables end-to-end customer behavioral analytics by not only tracking how customers behave within the space, but also tools to engage them online and offline.

Resources
Functionalities
Secure Access
Fortinet Fabric Ready
Alcide
Alcide

Alcide is a cloud-native security leader with the mission to empower DevOps and security teams to manage application and networking security through the intelligent automation of security policies applied uniformly, regardless of the workload and infrastructure.

Resources
Functionalities
Cloud
Fortinet Fabric Ready
AlgoSec
AlgoSec

The leading provider of business-driven security management solutions, AlgoSec helps over 1,500 enterprises align security with their business processes, to make their organizations more agile, secure and compliant.

Resources
Functionalities
Network Operations
Fortinet Fabric Ready
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud

As a business unit of Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both our international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem.

Resources
Functionalities
Cloud
Fortinet Fabric Ready Fabric Connector DevOps
Altran
Altran

Altran ranks as the undisputed global leader in Engineering and R&D services. The company offers clients an unmatched value proposition to address their transformation and innovation needs. Altran works alongside its clients, from initial concept through industrialization, to invent the products and services of tomorrow. The Aricent acquisition extends this leadership to semiconductors, digital experience and design innovation.

Functionalities
SDN-NFV & Virtualization
Fortinet Fabric Ready
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services

AWS services are trusted by more than a million active customers around the world – including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies – to power their infrastructures, make them more agile, and lower costs.

Learn more on the Fortinet-AWS alliance

Resources
Functionalities
Cloud
Fortinet Fabric Ready Fabric Connector DevOps
AMD
AMD

AMD is transforming our lives by building great products that accelerate next-generation high-performance and adaptive computing experiences. AMD and Fortinet unlock high-performance capabilities for customers, enabling them to experience a best-in-class security and user experience with a compelling value proposition.

Functionalities
Data Security, Secure Access
Fortinet Fabric Ready
ATAR Labs
ATAR Labs

ATAR Labs builds next-generation SOAR platform ATAR. Together with Fortinet, SOC teams become more agile and respond to complex threats and defend their infrastructure. Automatic processes deployed and orchestrated from ATAR, and enforcement, and detection from Fortinet creates an integrated operation to achieve a secure environment.

Resources
Functionalities
Automation, Security Operations
Fortinet Fabric Ready

Training & Certifications

NSE 4
FortiGate Infrastructure
In this two-day course, you will learn how to use advanced FortiGate networking and security.
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FortiGate Security
In this three-day course, you will learn how to use basic FortiGate features, including security profiles.
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NSE 7
Secure Access
In this three-day course, you will learn how FortiGate, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, and FortiAuthenticator enable secure connectivity over wired and wireless networks. You will also learn how to provision, administer, and monitor FortiAP and FortiSwitch devices using FortiManager.
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OT Security
Learn how to design, deploy, administrate, and monitor FortiGate, FortiNAC, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiSIEM devices to secure OT infrastructures. These skills will provide you with a solid understanding of how to design, implement, and operate an OT security solution based on Fortinet products.
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SD-WAN
Learn about common SD-WAN deployment scenarios using Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions. You will explore different situations, from a single enterprise site, to multiple data center environments, that will help you to enhance and troubleshoot SD-WAN deployments.
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Enterprise Firewall
In this course, you will learn how to implement, troubleshoot, and centrally manage an enterprise security infrastructure composed of multiple FortiGate devices.
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Others
FortiGate Essentials
In this interactive course, you will learn how to operate and administrate some fundamental FortiGate features
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FortiGate 7000 Series
In this advanced, hands-on, 2-day class, you will learn about the key features of session-aware load balance cluster (SLBC) and the FortiGate 7000 chassis-based firewall series.
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Fortinet is accelerating data center security performance with its seventh-generation network processor—the NP7—which made its first appearance in the company’s FortiGate 1800 firewall earlier this year.

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