NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: TIM GREENE ON VPNS 11/09/04 Today's focus: Fortinet increases the capacity of its mgmt. device
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Sign up for Network World's Data Center Newsletter in which Johna Till Johnson and the team at Nemertes Research will provide an ongoing assessment of current data center business drivers and future trends; concrete advice and guidance for IT executives seeking to consolidate data centers, improve disaster recovery, and deploy virtualization techniques. Click here to subscribe: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=87892 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Fortinet increases the capacity of its mgmt. device By Tim Greene Fortinet is introducing a management appliance for its FortiGate multi-function security gateways that makes it possible to manage up to 5,000 of the security boxes. Called FortiManager-3000, the device ups the capacity of its original management appliance, FortiManager-400, from 1,000 devices. Using a graphical user interface, customers can set policies for any security application the FortiGate devices support. These include virus screening, content filtering, firewalling, VPN, intrusion detection, spam filtering and spyware blocking. Customers can divide management rights among multiple administrators, granting different administrators different rights. So one administrator could have the ability to adjust content filtering parameters but not firewall settings. The management platform also enables customers to divide the FortiGate machines being managed into groups, so a company could separate management of devices at its retail stores from devices at its warehouses and headquarters, for example. Certain administrators could be granted access to some or all of these groups. So a small group of administrators might have access to the box protecting the company server farm, but a wider group might have access to FortiGates at remote offices. FortiManager can also push software updates to FortiGate units. Administrator consoles are Java based. Service providers can also use the devices to offer managed security services. One device could be used to group FortiGate devices according to which customers are using them, and to allow customers a limited level of management access to the boxes at their sites. The service provider could set a more extensive level of access for itself. FortiManager-3000 is available now and costs $25,000 for a platform with support for 25 Fortigate appliances. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Tim Greene Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering virtual private networking gear, remote access, core switching and local phone companies. You can reach him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Juniper Networks SSL VPNs-Secure Remote Access At companies of every size, IT staffers are running ragged trying to provide secure remote access to their network. 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