Fortinet FortiWeb 400F
Web Application and API Protection

Highlights:

Comprehensive Web Application Security

Using an advanced multi-layered and correlated approach, FortiWeb provides complete security for your web-based applications from the OWASP Top 10 and many other threats. FortiWeb’s first layer of defense uses traditional WAF detection engines (e.g. attack signatures, IP address reputation, protocol validation, and more) to identify and block malicious traffic, powered by intelligence from Fortinet’s industry leading security research from FortiGuard Labs. FortiWeb’s machine learning detection engine then examines traffic that passes this first layer, using a continuously updated model of your application to identify malicious anomalies and block them as well.

API Discovery and Protection

Fueling the digital transformation APIs have become increasingly popular, providing the backbone for mobile applications, automated business to business operations and ease of management across applications. However, with their popularity they also increase the attack surface with additional exposed application surfaces that organizations must secure. Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall provides the right tools to address threats to APIs. FortiWeb API Discovery and Protection uses machine learning algorithms to automatically discover APIs by continuously evaluating application traffic. Discovery is an integral role for establishing a positive security model and FortiWeb protects your critical APIs based on your profiled API inventory. FortiWeb can also integrate out of the box policies together with an automatically generated positive security model policy that is based on your organization’s schema specification (OpenAPI, XML and generic JSON are supported schemas) to protect against API exploits. FortiWeb schema validation can be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, automatically generating an updated positive security model policy once the API is updated.

Bot Mitigation

FortiWeb protects against automated bots, webs scrapers, crawlers, data harvesting, credential stuffing and other automated attacks to protect your web assets, mobile APIs, applications, users and sensitive data. Combining machine learning with policies such as threshold based detection, Bot deception and Biometrics based detection with superior good bot identification FortiWeb is able to block malicious bot attacks while reducing friction on legitimate users. With advanced tracking techniques FortiWeb can differentiate between humans, automated requests and repeat offenders, track behavior over time to better identify humans from bots and enforce CAPTCHA challenges when required. Together with FortiView, FortiWeb’s graphical analysis dashboard organizations can quickly identify attacks and differentiate from good bots and legitimate users.

FortiWeb’s machine learning accurately detects anomalies and identifies which are threats. Unlike prevailing auto-learning detection models used by other WAF vendors that treat every anomaly as a threat, FortiWeb’s precision nearly eliminates false positive detections and catches attack types that others cannot.

FortiWeb’s AI-based machine learning evaluates application requests to determine if they are normal, benign anomalies, or anomalies that are threats.

Solving the Challenge of False Threat Detections

False positive threat detections can be very disruptive and force many administrators to loosen security rules on their web application firewalls to the point where many often become a monitoring tool rather than a trusted threat avoidance platform. The installation of a WAF may take only minutes, however fine-tuning can take days, or even weeks. Even after setup, a WAF can require regular checkups and tweaks as applications and the environment change.

FortiWeb’s AI-based machine learning addresses false positive and negative threat detections without the need to tediously manage whitelists and fine-tune threat detection policies. With near 100% accuracy, the dual layer machine learning engines detect anomalies and then determine if they are threats unlike other methods that block all anomalies regardless of their intent. When combined with other tools, including user tracking, session tracking, and threat weighting, FortiWeb virtually eliminates all false detection scenarios.

Advanced Graphical Analysis and Reporting

FortiWeb includes a suite of graphical analysis tools called FortiView. Similar to other Fortinet products such as FortiGate, FortiWeb gives administrators the ability to visualize and drill-down into key elements of FortiWeb such as server/IP configurations, attack and traffic logs, attack maps, OWASP Top 10 attack categorization, and user activity. FortiView for FortiWeb lets administrators quickly identify suspicious activity in real time and address critical use cases such as origin of threats, common violations, and client/device risks.

Secured by FortiGuard

Fortinet’s Award-winning FortiGuard Labs is the backbone for many of FortiWeb’s layers in its approach to application security. Offered as five separate options, you can choose the FortiGuard services you need to protect your web applications. FortiWeb IP address reputation service protects you from known attack sources like botnets, spammers, anonymous proxies, and sources known to be infected with malicious software.

FortiWeb Security Service is designed just for FortiWeb including items such as application layer signatures, machine learning threat models, malicious robots, suspicious URL patterns, and web vulnerability scanner updates. Credential Stuffing Defense checks login attempts against FortiGuard’s list of compromised credentials and can take actions ranging from alerts to blocking logins from suspected stolen user ids and passwords. The FortiWeb Cloud Sandbox subscription enables FortiWeb to integrate with Fortinet’s cloud-sandbox service. Finally, FortiWeb offers FortiGuard’s top-rated antivirus engine that scans all file uploads for threats that can infect your servers or other network elements.

VM and Public Cloud Options

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

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Specifications:

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Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiWeb Series Datasheet (PDF).