Security Profiles
Unified Threat Management and Next Generation Firewall are terms originally coined by market research firms and refer to the concept of a comprehensive security solution provided in a single package. It is basically combining of what used to be accomplished by a number of different security technologies all under a single umbrella or in this case, a single device. On the FortiGate firewall this is achieved by the use of Security Profiles and optimized hardware.
In effect it is going from a previous style of firewall that included among its features:
• Gateway Network Firewall
• Routing
• VPN
To a more complete system that includes:
• Gateway Network Firewall
• Routing
• VPN
• Traffic Optimization
• Proxy Services
• Content Filtering
• Application Control
• Intrusion Protection
• Denial of Service Attack Protection
• Anti-virus
• Anti-spam
• Data Leak Prevention
• Endpoint Control of Security Applications
• Load Balancing
• WiFi Access Management
• Authentication Integration into Gateway Security
• Logging
• Reporting