Fortinet partners with VMware to deliver Advanced Security Services

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

Intending to secure traffic traversing virtual networks at the hypervisor level, Fortinet(NASDAQ:FTNT) has announced a proof of concept. With this approach, the security enforcement point is no longer required to be directly in the flow of traffic on the physical network and allows for injecting security controls before the traffic traverses the virtual network layer.

Specifically, the proof of concept will show secured traffic flow in a VMware virtualized network environment that highlights security policy enforcement of communication across and between physical and logical workloads. This proof of concept will debut at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, FROM August 25–29 in Fortinet’s booth (#642).

“Historically, security controls were required to be directly in the path of affected communication flow. Our VMware integration allows for a much less intrusive design and enables dynamic policy control. Today’s demonstration enhances our already mature unified threat management VM product line and gives our customers yet another choice regarding how they want to deploy security for cloud and software defined data center architectures. As customers begin to virtualize the cloud network with the new VMware NSX network virtualization platform, we will provide holistic security across virtual and physical infrastructures,” said Elie Bitton, Senior Director, Product Management – Virtualization and Management, Fortinet.

VMware NSX will virtualize the network and provide a platform for logical security and network services.....See More