Introduction
 
Introduction
Welcome, and thank you for selecting Fortinet products for your network.
FortiWeb hardware and FortiWeb-VM virtual appliance models are available that are suitable for medium and large enterprises, as well as service providers.
Benefits
FortiWeb is designed specifically to protect web servers.
FortiWeb web application firewalls (WAF) provide specialized application layer threat detection and protection for HTTP or HTTPS services such as:
Apache Tomcat
nginx
Microsoft IIS
JBoss
IBM Lotus Domino
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Outlook Web App (OWA)
RPC and ActiveSync for Microsoft Exchange Server
Joomla
WordPress
and many others
FortiWeb’s integrated web-specific vulnerability scanner can drastically reduces challenges associated with protecting regulated and confidential data by detecting your exposure to the latest threats, especially the OWASP Top 10.
In addition, FortiWeb’s HTTP firewall and denial-of-service (DoS) attack-prevention protect your Internet-facing web-based applications from attack and data theft. Using advanced techniques to provide bidirectional protection against sophisticated threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), FortiWeb helps you prevent identity theft, financial fraud, and corporate espionage. FortiWeb delivers the technology you need to monitor and enforce government regulations, industry best practices, and internal security policies, including firewalling and patching requirements from PCI DSS.
FortiWeb’s application-aware firewalling and load balancing engine can:
Secure HTTP applications that are often gateways into valuable databases
Prevent and reverse defacement
Improve application stability
Monitor servers for downtime & connection load
Reduces response times
Accelerate SSL/TLS *
Accelerate compression/decompression
Rewrite content on the fly
* On VM models, acceleration is due to offloading the cryptography burden from the back-end server. On hardware models, cryptography is also hardware-accelerated via ASIC chips.
FortiWeb significantly reduces deployment costs by consolidating WAF, hardware acceleration, load balancing, and vulnerability scanning into a single device with no per-user pricing. Those features drastically reduce the time required to protect your regulated, Internet-facing data and eases the challenges associated with policy enforcement and regulatory compliance.