Fortinet Introduces Machine Learning Capabilities to its

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., June 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2018

John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions, Fortinet “With a staggering 48 percent of data breaches being caused by hacking web application vulnerabilities, it’s clear that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting public and internal web applications. Current technologies such as intrusion prevention systems and existing web application security solutions only provide basic protection against these threats. Fortinet has combined our advanced AI-based machine learning capabilities with our FortiWeb WAF to protect web-based applications from attacks targeting known and unknown exploits with near 100 percent threat detection accuracy. It also benefits from automated management and seamless integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric.”

News Summary Fortinet ® (NASDAQ: FTNT ), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the latest version of its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) software release 6.0, making it the only major WAF security vendor to use machine learning for behavioral-based threat detection in web applications.

• The new innovations to FortiWeb provide a dramatic increase in detecting web application threats with nearly 100 percent accuracy.
• Increased threat detection accuracy enables faster response times for “set and forget” automated blocking, eliminating the need for staff reviews of alerts before taking action.
• Seamless integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric delivers advanced threat protection with file scanning of application attachments, simplified deployment and shared threat intelligence, as well as integration with third party services for extensive vulnerability protection.

Unprotected web applications have become attractive targets for cybercriminals looking for easy entry points into enterprise networks. Web application vulnerabilities can lead to data breaches or shut down mission-critical systems, which is why many organizations are choosing to leverage web application firewalls (WAFs) to protect their network. Traditionally, WAFs have relied on application learning (AL) for anomaly and threat detection, but in today’s dynamic threat landscape, AL has proven to have limitations that lead to false positive attack detections and require a significant amount of time to manage for already bogged down security teams.

The newly introduced capabilities in the FortiWeb Web Application Firewall address these issues by introducing machine learning capabilities for better threat detection, faster response times and easier management. Unlike AL, which uses a one-layer approach to detect anomalies based on simply matching inputs to what it has observed and treating every variation as a threat, FortiWeb now uses a two-layer approach of AI-based machine learning and statistical probabilities to detect anomalies and threats separately. The first layer builds the mathematical model for each learned parameter and then triggers anomalies for abnormal requests. The second will then verify if the anomaly is an actual threat or if it is a benign variance (false positive). These new innovations allow FortiWeb to provide nearly 100 percent application threat detection accuracy while requiring virtually no resources to deploy and finetune settings.

Further bolstering Fortinet’s WAF offering, FortiWeb leverages nearly six years of AI and machine learning development from FortiGuard Labs for its threat detection services and integrates seamlessly into the Fortinet Security Fabric to defend against sophisticated threats that evade other technologies or slip between the gaps of point-based solutions. FortiWeb is available in four convenient form factors including hardware appliances, virtual machines for all the major hypervisor platforms, public cloud options for AWS and Azure, and a hosted cloud-based solution.

Supporting Quotes

“Fortinet and TNP have been our network security partners for many years. As the threats have continued to evolve, especially with the increase in the use of web-based business applications, we have found the Fortinet Security Fabric products, including FortiWeb, have helped us to quickly adapt and meet new challenges. The fact that all Fortinet solutions talk to each other to quickly identify and block an attack saves us significant time and resources, as well as enabling a faster response. This approach is now more important than ever as we increasingly see more sophisticated and automated attacks.” – Tony Doyle, Head of ICT Services, Blackpool Council

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About Fortinet

Fortinet  (NASDAQ: FTNT ), is a global leader in broad, automated and integrated cybersecurity solutions and secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security features without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 350,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at  http://www.fortinet.com , the  Fortinet Blog , or  FortiGuard Labs .    

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