Fortinet FortiADC-VM16
Application Delivery Controllers

Highlights:

Hardware-Based SSL Offloading, SSL Inspection, and Visibility

FortiADC offloads server-intensive SSL processing with support for 4096-bit keys, TCP connection management, data compression and HTTP request processing from servers. This speeds up response times, reduces load on the backend servers, allowing them to serve more users.

SSL Forward Proxy utilizes FortiADC’s high-capacity decryption and encryption to allow other devices, such as a FortiGate firewall, to easily inspect traffic for threats. An inline pair of FortiADCs at the front end and back end of a firewall remove all encryption so that the firewall isn’t taxed with the additional load of SSL processing. FortiADC ensures seamless re-encryption with certificates intact with no user disruptions.

FortiADC’s Transparent HTTP/S and TCP/S Mirroring Capabilities decrypt secure traffic for inspection and reporting. Copies of clear traffic can be sent for analysis by FortiGate or other third-party solutions for an indepth view of threats that may be hidden in encrypted traffic while FortiADC continues to perform its application delivery functions.

FortiADC integrates with Gemalto’s SafeNet Enterprise Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to use the advanced security certificates managed by the HSM for the encryption and decryption of secure application traffic. This lets organizations that use Gemalto’s SafeNet HSMs deploy a high-performance ADC solution using a strong, centrally-managed set of certificates and encryption keys.

Disaster Recovery with Global Server Load Balancing

FortiADC’s included Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) makes your network reliable and available by scaling applications across multiple data centers for disaster recovery or to improve application response times. Administrators can set up rules that direct traffic based on site availability, data center performance and network latency.

Web Application Firewall

FortiADC offers multiple levels of protection to defend against attacks that target your web applications. FortiADC Web Application Firewall can detect a zero day attack and protect from OWASP top-10 and many other threats with multi-vector protection such as SQLi and XSS Protection, Web Scraping, Brute Force, Web Defacement, Protocol Validation (HTTP RFC) and Web Attack Signature using FortiGuard WAF Security Services for layer 7 attacks (subscription required). Also, FortiADC WAF provides full Web Vulnerability Scanning for your website to detect and alert against known attacks.

Optimize Performance with PageSpeed, Caching, and Compression

FortiADC provides multiple services that speed the delivery of applications to users. The PageSpeed suite of website performance enhancement tools can automatically optimize HTTP, CSS, Javascript and image delivery to application users. Caching on FortiADC dynamically stores popular application content such as images, videos, HTML files and other file types to alleviate server resources and accelerate overall application performance. HTTP Compression employs GZIP and DEFLATE to intelligently compress many content types used by today’s latest web-based applications to reduce bandwidth needs and improve the user application experience.

Deep Integration into the Fortinet Security Fabric

As the threat landscape evolves, many new threats require a multi-pronged approach for protecting applications. Advanced Persistent Threats that target users can take many different forms than traditional single-vector attack types and can evade protections offered only by a single device. FortiADC’s antivirus and integration with FortiSandbox extend basic security protections to scan file attachments for known and unknown threats.

DDoS Application, Web Filtering, IPS, Geo-IP and IP Reputation for Enhanced Security

FortiGuard Web Filtering works with FortiADC’s SSL Forward Proxy feature to simplify the process of managing exceptions for secure traffic inspection. Instead of manually configuring single URLs, Web Filtering gives administrators the ability to choose websites by category type to enable or disable SSL traffic inspection as a group instead of on a site by site basis. FortiADC also supports our FortiGuard which provides multi services such as: IPS, Antivirus and IP Reputation service (subscription required) that protects you from sources associated with DoS/DDoS attacks, phishing schemes, spammers, malicious software and botnets.

Scripting to Extend Built-in Features

FortiADC’s Lua-based scripting language gives you the flexibility to create custom, event-driven rules using predefined commands, variables and operators. Using easy-to-create scripts, you get the flexibility you need to extend your FortiADC with specialized business rules that give you almost unlimited possibilities for server load balancing, health checks, application validation, content routing, and content rewriting to meet the needs of your organization.

Link Load Balancing

Built-in Link Load Balancing (LLB) gives you the option to connect your FortiADC to two or more WAN links to reduce the risk of outages or to add additional bandwidth to relieve traffic congestion. FortiADC supports inbound and outbound Link Load Balancing to manage traffic leaving or entering the device. Using policy routing, FortiADC can support complex NAT and routing requirements to address almost any network LLB architecture. With Tunnel Routing you get high-speed, reliable site-to-site connectivity without the need to lease expensive WAN links. It aggregates multiple links to create a virtual tunnel to a remote data center that ensures availability especially for applications that are time sensitive and require large single-session bandwidth such as video conferencing.

Analytics and Visibility

FortiADC offers real-time and historical information about your appliance, which includes the logical topology of real-server pools, user/application data-analytics, security threats, attack maps and some other system events and alerts.

VM and Public Cloud Options

FortiADC provides maximum flexibility in supporting your virtual and hybrid environments. The virtual versions of FortiADC support all the same features as our hardware-based devices and can be deployed in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Open Source Xen, and KVM platforms. FortiADC is also available for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud.

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Documentation:

Download the FortiADC Datasheet (.PDF)