From: Press Release
SUNNYVALE, CA – Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) a world leader in high-performance network security today unveiled a major update to the company’s FortiOS network security operating system that powers the FortiGate platform. This release incorporates numerous innovations that strengthen Fortinet’s Advanced Threat Protection Framework, providing enterprises with a cohesive and coordinated way to combat Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), zero-day attacks and other sophisticated malware. This Framework uniquely combines Fortinet’s new and established technologies with FortiGuard’s threat research and response to address increasingly complex cyber threats and reduce the risk of network breach and data loss.
The key elements of Fortinet’s Advanced Threat Protection Framework are:
- Access control: Reduces the attack surface by only allowing authorized users to access the network via authorized ports
- Threat prevention: Proactively stops as many attacks as possible by inspecting code, traffic, web sites and applications
- Threat detection: Continues seeking out indicators of compromise in order to identify previously unknown attacks that bypass traditional defenses
- Incident response: Validates and contains incidents with expert security services, as well as automated actions and updates
- Continuous Monitoring: Assesses and improves security posture against individual and industry baselines, while accommodating a rapidly evolving threat environment.
FortiOS 5.2: A Key Pillar to Fortinet’s ATP Framework
The threat landscape has seen a proliferation of highly targeted zero-day attacks and APTs that are designed to steal intellectual property or other critical enterprise data. Researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have discovered more than 140 new zero-day vulnerabilities to date, including 18 found in 2013 alone.
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