Fortinet launches Next-Gen OS for Enterprises and Service Providers

With the new security advancements for protection against increasingly malicious application layer attacks , a new next-generation operating system FortiWeb 5 OS  has been unveiled by Fortinet. This advancement by the company has been done  for its FortiWeb application firewalls product family. The newly introduced OS is backward compatible with the entire FortiWeb family, featuring  critical security advancements that include the ability to accurately identify the origin of Web application traffic to proactively distinguish between legitimate and malicious sources.

John Maddison, Vice-President -  Marketing, Fortinet, said, "The introduction of FortiWeb 5 and our new high-end Web application firewalls are designed for the most demanding enterprises and service providers. Not only are we introducing more intelligent protection against the OWASP Top 10 threats, we are delivering new appliances that leverage an application-aware load balancing engine to distribute traffic and route content across multiple Web servers. The FortiWeb product line combines the best of both worlds – the industry’s most advanced Web application security with optimal performance."

The FortiWeb 5 OS has the ability to combine broad Web application protection with Layer 7 load balancing and a built-in vulnerability scanner in a simple-to-manage system that does not require add-on licenses for each system component. As an enhancement to its application layer DoS protection, FortiWeb 5 enhances its Real Browser Enforcement challenge response action to better validate requests, ascertain the legitimacy of users and weed out automated DoS tools.

The FortiWeb 5 OS is available as a free update to all existing customers with a valid support.