Cybersecurity firm Fortinet announced a new integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide common customers with advanced security across their cloud platforms, applications, and network.
Fortinet's cloud security solutions includes virtual next-generation firewall, FortiGate-VM and web application firewall (WAF).
Under the new integration with AWS, Fortinet will provide managed IPS rulesets for the recently introduced AWS Network Firewall. This is a new managed service to deploy essential network protections for all of a customer's Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs).
Also now Fortinet's FortiGate-VM will integrate with AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) to help organizations simplify and secure their Amazon VPC environments while improving high availability and scaling.
In addition, Fortinet's new consulting services will be available in AWS Marketplace to provide customers with a blueprint for designing and implementing advanced security across their cloud platform, network and applications on AWS.
The new announcement builds on Fortinet's existing collaboration with AWS. Fortinet delivers natively integrated and enhanced security for available AWS services, including Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudFormation and AWS Outposts.
“With the introduction of AWS Network Firewall, customers can leverage global threat intelligence from Fortinet to protect their VPCs and securely accelerate their cloud journey. We are pleased to expand our relationship with Fortinet to provide our customers with managed, advanced protection for their AWS deployments,” said Andrew Thomas, General Manager of Perimeter Protection, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
“Enterprises are increasingly looking to integrate both native cloud security and Fortinet's enterprise-class cloud security offerings to protect their workloads on AWS. Fortinet has always collaborated closely with AWS on security initiatives and we will leverage AWS Marketplace to further enable rapid deployment,” said Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC at Fortinet.
