Fortinet secures Endpoints by extending Unified Threat Management Reach

Fortinet has introduced FortiClient that enables organizations to deploy business practices requiring secure remote access connectivity for its distributed and mobile workforce, contractors and partners. 

The highly-modular design of the FortiClient solution combines essential data encryption, authentication, endpoint access control and WAN optimization functions in a single, easy-to-use, lightweight endpoint agent. For maximum deployment flexibility, security administrators can choose from multiple implementation methods to help secure the remote access privileges of different classes of users. 

"FortiClient is a vital piece of our end-to-end security strategy for enterprises and SMB customers. By consolidating such a rich set of security capabilities into a simple-to-deploy software agent, customers big and small can now implement the right kind of remote access connection for the right kind of user within one security framework. As a result, best business practices requiring secure remote access can be easily and cost-effectively implemented which, in turn, can lower an organization's total cost of ownership," said, Michael Xie, Founder, CTO & Vice-President of Engineering, Fortinet. 

Fortinet has also released FortiManager 4.0MR3 and FortiAnalyzer 4.0MR3 that provide improvements in usability and workflow management, as well as improved support for IPv6. FortiManager provides centralized policy-based provisioning, configuration and update management for FortiGate, FortiWiFi and FortiMail appliances. FortiAnalyzer provides advanced security management functions such as quarantined file archiving, event correlation, vulnerability assessments, traffic analysis and archiving of email, Web access, instant messaging and file transfer content. Therefore, the new FortiClient agent as well as FortiManager 4.0 MR3 and FortiAnalyzer 4.0 MR3 are available now.