Fortinet has announced two new appliances for its FortiWeb family of web application firewalls - the FortiWeb-1000C, designed for mid-to-large enterprises, and FortiWeb-3000C, the flagship system for high-end enterprises, application service and cloud-based service providers. Each appliance is equipped with the new FortiWeb 4.0 MR1 firmware that is designed to provide maximum protection for web applications containing sensitive data subject to Payment Card Industry (PCI) guidelines.
With the addition of the FortiWeb-1000C and FortiWeb-3000C, Fortinet now offers four web application firewall appliances to provide retail and payment, financial services and healthcare customers with a full range of deployment options. The FortiWeb-1000C and FortiWeb-3000C also provide robust patient data protection as part of HIPAA compliance for healthcare organizations.
Michael Xie, founder, CTO and vice president of engineering, Fortinet said, "More content is being delivered via the web, and both cloud providers and large enterprises need robust security solutions that can protect web application infrastructures without affecting application performance. These new platforms can play a pivotal role in helping preserve the security and uninterrupted operation of our customers’ web application infrastructures."
