Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced the availability of FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall on Amazon Web Services Inc., a managed next-generation service specifically designed for AWS environments.

FortiGate CNF incorporates FortiGuard artificial intelligence-powered Security Services for real-time detection of and protection against malicious external and internal threats. Underpinned by FortiOS, Fortinet’s network operating system, the service is said to deliver a consistent network security experience across AWS and on-premises environments.

Fortinet is pitching the service as allowing customers to focus more on their core competencies and deploy effective security policies to protect their business-critical applications and data. Natively supporting AWS, FortiGate CNF gives customers immediate access to FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services for enterprise-grade protection, including URL filtering, DNS filtering, IPS, application control and other FortiGuard security services that organizations rely on.

Benefits include regionwide network protection at optimized costs, with FortiGate CNF designed to aggregate security across cloud networks, availability zones and virtual private clouds in a cloud region. FortiGate CNF natively supports AWS to optimize cloud security spending and uses AWS Graviton instances to deliver better price-performance than other offerings.

Network security operations with FortiGate CNF offer a simple, intuitive user interface that minimizes the need for security expertise, with support for defining and deploying robust security policies such as dynamic meta-data-based policies on AWS. The AWS support helps security teams move at the speed and scale of applications teams and the support of AWS Gateway Load Balancer eliminates do-it-yourself automation and helps secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud environments. Additionally, support for AWS Firewall Manager simplifies security management and automates security rollouts.

As part of the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, the new service also offers a single pane of glass through FortiManager to centralize policy management, increase visibility and automate policy enforcement on AWS and beyond.

“Organizations that are accelerating their cloud adoption may not have the resources or time to build, scale or adapt their cloud security to meet the pace of their business,”explained John Maddison, executive vice president of products and chief marketing officer at Fortinet. “As a managed next-generation firewall service, FortiGate CNF removes the heavy lifting around network security operations and provides a frictionless experience to help customers easily deploy best-in-class security on the cloud.”

Fortinet CNF is available now in the AWS Marketplace.

Photo: Robert Hof/SiliconANGLE