Fortinet 5.0 Patch 6 Introduction

Fortinet 13 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide

Introduction

Welcome, and thank you for selecting Fortinet products for your network.

FortiWeb hardware and FortiWeb-VM virtual appliance models are available that are suitable for

medium and large enterprises, as well as service providers.

FortiWeb is designed specifically to protect web servers.

FortiWeb web application firewalls (WAF) provide specialized application layer threat detection

and protection for HTTP or HTTPS services such as:

• Apache Tomcat

•ngi

•Microsoft IIS

• JBoss

•IBM Lotus Domino

• Microsoft SharePoint

• Microsoft Outlook Web App (OWA)

• RPC and ActiveSync for Microsoft Exchange Server

• Joomla

•WordPress

• and many others

FortiWeb’s integrated web-specific vulnerability scanner can drastically reduces challenges

associated with protecting regulated and confidential data by detecting your exposure to the

latest threats, especially the OWASP Top 10.

In addition, FortiWeb’s HTTP firewall and denial-of-service (DoS) attack-prevention protect your

Internet-facing web-based applications from attack and data theft. Using advanced techniques

to provide bidirectional protection against sophisticated threats like SQL injection and

cross-site scripting (XSS), FortiWeb helps you prevent identity theft, financial fraud, and

corporate espionage. FortiWeb delivers the technology you need to monitor and enforce

government regulations, industry best practices, and internal security policies, including

firewalling and patching requirements from PCI DSS.

FortiWeb’s application-aware firewalling and load balancing engine can:

• Secure HTTP applications that are often gateways into valuable databases

•Prevent and reverse defacement

• Improve application stability

• Monitor servers for downtime & connection load

• Reduces response times

• Accelerate SSL/TLS *

• Accelerate compression/decompression

• Rewrite content on the fly