Fortinet links its dynamic cloud security with AWS

Bangalore: Fortinet has announced the integration of its dynamic cloud security offerings on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In addition, Fortinet’s cloud security offerings now support Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Ingress Routing enhancements. Through these integrations, Fortinet continues to underscore its commitment to securing all cloud environments.

“The cloud provides a number of business-critical benefits, and having the right security solutions in place is key in successful cloud operations,” said Rajesh Maurya, Regional VP – India & SAARC – Fortinet.

“As organizations increasingly leverage AWS, our collaboration to deliver cybersecurity solutions on the cloud helps to enhance security and allow organizations to reap the full breadth of benefits the cloud provides,” added Maurya.

Organizations are adopting cloud at a rapid pace. As cloud migration continues to accelerate, a recent (ISC) 2 report found that the top cloud security concern for cybersecurity professionals is data loss and leakage.

Fortinet’s robust cloud security portfolio provides end-to-end security that unifies security controls and visibility in various cloud environments to protect the entire infrastructure and effectively manage risks, such as data loss and other threats.

Key highlights of Fortinet’s newest integrations on AWS include:

• Fortinet introduced new managed rules for AWS WAF that are now available for the new AWS WAF v2 API. This provides customers more flexibility when developing their WAF security policies by allowing users to combine WAF rulesets to optimize security for each application.

• FortiGate-VM integrates with AWS CloudFormation third-party resource provider framework. Fortinet leverages AWS to provide users with a seamless experience in automating security policies, admin users, network routing and other cloud security operations. The new integration simplifies manual configuration modifications and provides a seamless way to create, update and delete resources in AWS environments.

• Fortinet’s cloud security offerings support Amazon VPC Ingress Routing enhancements, helping organizations build and manage large scale deployments in the Cloud Security Services Hub. This eliminates complicated routing workarounds and network address translation schemes, while enabling programmatic and selective inbound traffic routing and distribution across a variety of Fortinet security products, such as FortiGate-VM, FortiWeb-VM and FortiMail-VM.

These additions follow Fortinet’s announcement from earlier this year about the availability of its FortiWeb Cloud WAF-as-a-Service on AWS marketplace.

“Autodesk uses AWS for its public cloud deployments, and to maintain high security standards we’ve deployed the Fortinet Security Fabric, comprised of cloud security offerings that natively integrate with AWS,” said Steve Litras, Director – Infrastructure Services, Autodesk.

“Working with Fortinet, we’ve achieved scalable and consistent security policies across different locations,” added Litras.