Fortinet Introduces FortiDDoS Family

Fortinet, a network security solutions provider, has introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that are designed to detect and help protect against today’s most damaging and sophisticated DDoS attacks. The appliances feature custom ASICs that are capable of mitigating DDoS attacks while maintaining incredibly-low latency (less than 26 microseconds), preventing loss of availability to critical systems, servers and applications.

Providing granular real-time network traffic visibility and automatic protection against targeted DDoS attacks, the FortiDDoS appliances will support network virtualisation and automatic and continuous traffic baselining. Network virtualisation helps prevent attacks on one segment of the network from affecting other segments, thereby preserving availability in virtualised environments of datacentres and cloud-based service providers. The automatic traffic baseline model building is also unique, enabling the FortiDDoS products to build a network behaviour model initially and adaptively update it continuously with practically no end-user intervention, resulting in significantly reduced administrative overhead.

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“DDoS attacks aren’t just an annoyance and minor inconvenience, they are a serious problem that could cause significant liability to businesses today,” said Michael Xie, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, Fortinet. “The damage from a DDoS attack can include loss of revenue, loss of customer confidence, loss of brand equity and potentially huge legal liabilities. A FortiDDoS appliance installed in front of a network infrastructure can act as a shield against DDoS attacks,” he added.

“FortiDDoS appliances are easy to deploy and manage, and are designed to recognise today’s attack vectors and deliver hardware-accelerated performance to block attacks quickly,” said Hemant Jain, Vice President of Engineering, Fortinet.

Hacktivism via botnets and network testing applications has increased significantly in the last year, which has led to an increase in volumetric and application layer attacks. These attacks bring down sites by filling up Internet pipes and overloading application servers. As businesses consume more software as a service (SaaS) offerings and other public cloud-based services, DDoS attacks have become a serious concern for CIOs and CSOs whether they are moving to the cloud or keeping their systems and data on-premise.

The most common motivations for DDoS attacks today are either financial or political. Financially motivated attackers seek to extort funds from sites by launching an initial attack and demanding payment to avoid future attacks. Politically motivated attackers launch an attack in response to an organisation’s policies by disrupting the victim’s business operations. Regardless of the motive, any downtime affects not only a victim organisation’s customers, partners and employees, but can damage its brand and credibility as well.

All FortiDDoS appliances feature eight virtualised network partitions with independent protection policies for virtualised environments, automatic traffic profiling and rate limiting context-aware policy enforcement for maximum effectiveness. They also provide real-time and historic attacking traffic analysis that delivers unmatched granular visibility on top attacks, top sources and top attackers. The FortiDDoS family will also utilise an innovative design that eliminates a common performance bottleneck by ensuring there is no CPU or operating system in the path of the packets.

The FortiDDoS-100A features 1 Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, four 1GbpsRJ-45 copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN connectivity and one terabyte of storage. This model can be used to protect 2 Internet links.

The FortiDDoS-200A features 2Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, eight 1Gbps RJ-45 copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN connectivity, a redundant power supply and two terabytes of RAID storage. This model can be used to protect up to 4 Internet links.

The FortiDDoS-300A features 3Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, twelve 1Gbps RJ-45 Copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN connectivity, a redundant power supply and two terabytes of RAID storage. This model can be used to protect up to 6 Internet links.