Cloud Security
Protection for the workloads and users that never touch your data centre: SASE for the hybrid workforce, WAF and API security in front of your applications, load balancing, and cloud-native posture and workload protection.
Where to start
Protection for the workloads and users that never touch your data centre: the hybrid workforce, the applications you expose to the internet, and the cloud accounts where most of your new infrastructure now appears.
The organising idea is that the perimeter moved. Backhauling remote users through a head-end firewall purely so they get inspected stopped making sense when the workforce stopped being in one place, which is what FortiSASE addresses. Meanwhile a network firewall cannot see into an application — attacks against your web estate arrive as perfectly legitimate HTTPS, which is what FortiWeb addresses.
Cloud breaches are overwhelmingly misconfiguration and over-permission rather than exploited vulnerabilities. That is worth stating plainly because it changes what to buy: finding the public storage bucket and the over-scoped IAM role before an attacker does is posture management, not workload protection, and posture is the faster win because it needs no agents.
Decide these first
Where are your users, and how often?
If everyone is in the office every day, a FortiGate at the edge is cheaper and simpler than SASE. The more distributed the workforce, the stronger the case.
What is your real application HTTP throughput?
Size a WAF on measured application traffic, not internet circuit capacity. The gap between the two is usually large, and WAF inspection is expensive.
Are you protecting APIs as well as pages?
API traffic dominates most modern estates and needs schema validation and rate limiting rather than page-oriented rules. It changes the configuration effort substantially.
How many cloud accounts do you actually have?
Most organisations discover they have more than they thought, and that discovery is itself the finding. Licensing follows accounts and workloads.
Browse cloud security
FortiSASE
Secure access for users who are never behind your firewall
1 product →FortiWeb (FWB-100F through 4000F / VM / Cloud)FortiWeb Web Application Firewall
Protect the applications and APIs a network firewall cannot see into
7 products →FortiADCFortiADC Application Delivery Controllers
Load balancing, SSL offload and application delivery with security built in
1 product →FortiProxyFortiProxy Secure Web Gateway
Explicit-proxy web filtering, DLP and content inspection at scale
1 product →FortiGate CNFFortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall
FortiGate inspection as a managed service in AWS and Azure
1 product →FortiCNAPPFortiCNAPP Cloud-Native Application Protection
Posture, workload protection and code security across cloud accounts
1 product →FortiDevSecFortiDevSec
Application security testing inside the CI/CD pipeline
1 product →