{"id":5905,"date":"2014-08-06T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2014-08-06T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T08:34:13","slug":"fortinets-pay-go-firewall-secures-cloud-based-web-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/08\/06\/fortinets-pay-go-firewall-secures-cloud-based-web-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortinet’s pay-as-you-go firewall secures cloud-based Web applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Companies can now secure their cloud-based Web applications with a firewall that can be bought on an hourly or annual subscription basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fortinet has announced enhancements to its existing FortiWeb-VM Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include on-demand, pay-as-you-go offerings.<\/p>\n

FortiWeb-VM for AWS helps AWS enterprise customers secure their cloud-based Web applications and meet PCI DSS compliance requirements.<\/p>\n

FortiWeb-VM for AWS can now be utilized seamlessly on an hourly or annual subscription basis, complementing existing Bring Your Own License (BYOL) options.<\/p>\n

When procured via AWS Marketplace for on-demand delivery and integrated metering, billing, and payments, AWS customers can now consume \u201csecurity-as-a-service\u201d in the same simple and elastic manner as they would with the AWS infrastructure itself.<\/p>\n

A significant benefit of the new on-demand, pay-as-you-go model is scaling the solution to meet immediate needs, while still offering predictable cost models. The new AWS Marketplace annual subscription options potentially allow CAPEX savings of up to 40 percent when compared to hourly pricing over the same 12 month period.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to have FortiWeb-VM for AWS available via annual and hourly subscription on AWS Marketplace,\u201d said Terry Hanold, Vice President, Cloud Commerce, Amazon Web Services, Inc. \u201cCustomers can now easily and quickly purchase\u00a0 FortiWeb-VM on AWS Marketplace to help provide additional layers of protection for their workloads running on AWS.\u201d<\/p>\n

FortiWeb-VM at-a-Glance<\/p>\n

FortiWeb-VM provides multiple protection layers against today\u2019s threats that target Web applications, including cross-site scripting, SQL injection, buffer overflows, file inclusion,\u00a0 cookie poisoning, schema poisoning, denial of service (at both the application and network layer) and many others.<\/p>\n

FortiWeb-VM protects against OWASP Top 10 Web application vulnerabilities, and the software\u2019s IP reputation service helps protect against automated Web attacks by identifying botnet activity and other suspicious activities happening on a network.<\/p>\n

Unlike other virtual Web application firewalls, FortiWeb-VM automatically and dynamically profiles user activity to create a baseline of permissible activity.\u00a0 Its real-time data analysis capabilities provide an analytics interface that helps organizations understand their Web application usage and maps requests to their geographic location.<\/p>\n

Fortinet Virtual Appliance Advantage<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement follows news the company made earlier this year announcing the availability of its flagship FortiGate security platform on AWS.<\/p>\n

Last year, the company made available FortiManager-VM and FortiAnalyzer-VM on AWS, enabling customers to deploy centralized security management and reporting to all FortiGate and FortiGate-VM security technologies running at the edge, in internal networks, remote offices, within core data centers or deployed in the cloud.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s FortiWeb-VM announcement further extends both Fortinet\u2019s broad cloud computing portfolio and the company\u2019s commitment to protecting customer Web applications on the AWS platform,\u201d said John Maddison, vice president of marketing for Fortinet.\u00a0 \u201cCustomers have been asking for a more cost-flexible, cloud-based protection solution, and we\u2019re pleased to report it\u2019s available now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortinet FortiWeb-VM is currently available in the AWS Marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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