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Centralized Management for Fortinet Solutions - FortiManager

(pdf) FortiManager Datasheet

Networks are under constant attack from threats such as; viruses that infect networks and computers, hackers that steal confidential information, denial of service attacks meant to create network outages, and complex, blended security threats. Managing a security infrastructure to combat these threats is increasingly challenging as networks grow in size and complexity. Typically, network and security administrators utilize multiple management applications to configure and maintain different products and varied network policies. As such, device configuration is uncoordinated, network visibility is limited, reaction time to new threats is slower, and uniformly managing device updates can be a daunting task. This leaves administrators without the required network visibility and control, struggling to effectively manage network security.

FortiManager™ is a centralized management system that seamlessly works between and among Fortinet’s family of multi-layered security solutions to provide coordinated policy-based provisioning, device configuration and update management, as well as end-to-end network monitoring and device control. FortiManager minimizes both initial deployment costs, as well as the ongoing operating expenses, to deploy, configure, monitor and maintain a secure network. Role-based administration allows for defined user privileges only to specific management domains and specific functions. Device grouping enables collections of Fortinet security solutions to be aggregated into independent management domains to control administrative access and simplify policy deployment. Local hosting of updates to the threat signature and filter database minimizes threat response time and maximizes network protection.