• Series Model: FortiGate 40F series
• Form Factor: Compact fanless desktop form factor
• Primary Functions:
  • SD-WAN: Provides a fast and secure SD-WAN solution, making it suitable for connecting and securing branch offices.
  • Cyber Threat Protection: Protects against cyber threats with system-on-a-chip acceleration, ensuring efficient threat detection and prevention.
• Secure SD-WAN: The series offers industry-leading secure SD-WAN capabilities, which are essential for ensuring the security and reliability of WAN connections while optimizing application performance.
• Affordability: The FortiGate 40F series is designed to be an affordable solution, making it accessible for mid-sized businesses and branch offices with budget constraints.
• Ease of Deployment: It is described as an easy-to-deploy solution, which can be crucial for organizations looking for a streamlined implementation process.
• Security-Driven Networking: The series follows Fortinet’s Security-Driven Networking approach, emphasizing the integration of network security with the latest security technologies and practices.

Management:

• Facilitates SD-WAN Orchestration with an intuitive and simplified workflow for centralized management and the provisioning of business policies with ease.
• Supports expedited deployment through Zero Touch Provisioning, making it suitable for large and distributed infrastructure.
• Automates VPN tunnel setup, allowing flexible hub-to-spoke and full-mesh deployments at scale, which provides bandwidth aggregation and secure encrypted WAN paths.
• Offers predefined compliance checklists to analyze deployments and highlight best practices for improving overall security posture.

Security Features:

• Deep Inspection: The appliance can identify thousands of applications within network traffic, allowing for deep inspection and granular policy enforcement.
• Malware Protection: It protects against malware, exploits, and malicious websites, both in encrypted and non-encrypted traffic.
• Threat Detection: The appliance prevents and detects known attacks using continuous threat intelligence from AI-powered FortiGuard Labs security services.
• Advanced Threat Blocking: It can proactively block unknown sophisticated attacks in real-time, thanks to integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric and the AI-powered FortiSandbox.