FortiCloud
FortiCloud (formerly known as FAMS) is a hosted security management and log retention service for FortiGate devices. It gives you centralized reporting, traffic analysis, configuration management and log retention without the need for additional hardware and software.
| FortiGate models 800 and above do not support the FortiCloud service. |
FortiCloud offers a wide range of features:
• Simplified central management - FortiCloud provides a central web-based management console to manage individual or aggregated FortiGate and FortiWiFi devices. Adding a device to the FortiCloud management subscription is straightforward and provides detailed traffic and application visibility across the whole network.
• Hosted log retention with large default storage allocated - Log retention is an integral part of any security and compliance program but administering a separate storage system is burdensome. FortiCloud takes care of this automatically and stores the valuable log information in the cloud. Each device is allowed up to 200Gb of log retention storage. Different types of logs can be stored including Traffic, System Events, Web, Applications and Security Events.
• Monitoring and alerting in real time - Network availability is critical to a good end-user experience. FortiCloud enables you to monitor your FortiGate network in real time with different alerting mechanisms to pinpoint potential issues. Alerting mechanisms can be delivered via email.
• Customized or pre-configured reporting and analysis tools - Reporting and analysis are your eyes and ears into your network’s health and security. Pre-configured reports are available, as well as custom reports that can be tailored to your specific reporting and compliance requirements. For example, you may want to look closely at application usage or web site violations. The reports can be emailed as PDFs and can cover different time periods.
• Maintain important configuration information uniformly - The correct configuration of the devices within your network is essential to maintaining an optimum performance and security posture. In addition, maintaining the correct firmware (operating system) level allows you to take advantage of the latest features.
• Service security - All communication (including log information) between the devices and the clouds is encrypted. Redundant data centers are always used to give the service high availability. Operational security measures have been put in place to make sure your data is secure — only you can view or retrieve it.