FortiGate 60E is a powerful defensive tool from Fortinet. It’s also part of a family that shares a common architecture and operating system, which means it plays with others. Here’s how:
Lockdown Remote Facilities by Fortifying the FortiGate 60E
The Fortinet FortiGate 60E next-generation security appliance is designed to be dropped into remote campus networks to provide solid cybersecurity against a variety of threats — and it succeeds, delivering a host of benefits: anti-virus analysis, application filtering, application-specific integrated circuit VPN, firewall protection, an intrusion prevention system, URL filtering, VPN support and web threat protection. But it’s also one in a family of appliances designed to work together for even greater security.
I happened to have some Fortinet gear in the lab from previous reviews, including an email gateway appliance and a full network sandboxing tool. Both of them are specialized, powerful tools that a remote campus might require. Thankfully, like the FortiGate 60E, they are built around a common architecture that streamlines throughput and prioritizes quick protection actions.
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Using the graphical interface on the FortiGate 60E, it was easy to set up an automatic process that sent certain files to the sandbox for deeper analysis. It was similarly simple to send them back once complete, or to program automatic actions on the 60E if any threats were detected. The 60E even recognized that the presence of other FortiGate tools, simplifying the integration process.
The commonality between Fortinet devices these days makes it so that installing whole new appliances is no harder than adding software modules. The 60E is specifically designed with a plug-and-play level of simplicity, but the other devices aren’t much more difficult to manage. Integrating them all through the 60E is easy.
Remote facilities that can sacrifice a bit of the baseline easiness of the FortiGate 60E can easily add even more protection to their defenses with other Fortinet appliances. That would give even the most distant learning site the same powerful protection as the core campus.
FORTINET FORTIGATE 60E
Data Transfer Rate: 3Gbps
Max Concurrent TCP Sessions: 1.3 million
Supported New Sessions: 30,000 per second
Firewall Rules Capacity: 5,000
Max Concurrent SSL VPN Sessions: 100
Dimensions: 6.3x8.5x1.5 inches
Weight: 1.98 pounds