A day out with Fortinet

Today I've been to Stockholm and Vaxholm Fortress on a seminar with Fortinet. Fortinet is the number one in their segment of unified threat management. I took this as a daytrip, and this was a long daytrip. I just got home now (23:00) and left home at 05:00 this morning.

 

The day started out fine. We took RIB boats out to Vaxholm from Stockholm. It was a 33 feet RIB with 2x250Hk engines. The trip took one hour, with some unnecessary - but fun - driving. On our way back we took and old steam boat back to the city. At least they told us it was a steam boat. None of us belived so :)

 

In the sessions they talked about threats in the future and what Fortinet do to meet these theats. Pishing was given much focus.

They informed us about some new units on the seminar today. The units are described below.

Fortigate 50B - a unit with 3 or 4 switched ports and two other ports. No other details were given.

 

Fortigate 224B

A 24x10/100+2x10/100/1000+2xWAN port switch. This switch is supposed to do wirespeed IDS/IDP and can disconnect clients if they misbehave. This unit targets threats inside your LAN. Unfortunately the unit only checks for viruses as the other Fortigate units do. That is SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP and FTP. NFS, filesharing and other similar traffic is not checked. This is Fortinet's first product for theath management on a LAN. I think much more exiting products will evolve from this.

 

FortiAnalyzer 100B

A new analyzer. Not much talk about this unit.

 

FortiMail 100

A new spam solution for the SMB marked. This unit is priced to about US$1500 I think. It can handle up to 57000 emails/hour.

 

In the end this was an interesting day.