Firewall as a service ( FWaaS - FortiGate)
It's a cloud-based offering that provides firewall functionality to organizations without the need for on-premises hardware. With FWaaS, the firewall functions are delivered as a service over the internet, allowing organizations to leverage robust security features without the overhead of managing physical firewall appliances.
Features
- Advanced packet filtering and application control
- SSL/SSH inspection for secure traffic inspection
- Sandboxing for advanced threat analysis
- Application- aware routing and quality of service
- Reporting and analytics
- Unified visibility and control access
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence for threat detection
- Advanced malware protection
- Layer 7 protection including URL and DNS filtering
Benefits
- Comprehensive network security, multi-layered defense against threats.
- Secure SD-WAN, optimised WAN performance, branch networking.
- High performance, scalability, maximum uptime through clustering.
- Centralised visibility, control, security orchestration, and automation.
- Simplified management, lower TCO through consolidation.
- Compliance support, regulatory adherence, granular controls.
- Industry-leading solutions, continuous innovation, future-proof security
- The service is supported by FortiGuard Lab’s Global Threat Intelligence
Pricing
£1,000 an instance
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
4 4 1 6 3 7 1 1 6 8 5 4 1 7 6
Contact
FullProxy Ltd
Chris Templeton / Ewan Ferguson
Telephone: 0141 291 5500
Email: g-cloud@fullproxy.com
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Details provided within supplied documentation
- System requirements
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- Requirements dependent upon environment in which products are deployed
- See vendor website or documentation for details
- Minimum requirements are available at F5.com
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
- Response time SLAs are negotiable with the client
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Yes, at an extra cost
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- N/A
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/A
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Access to Fortinet Support differs with contract purchased. Fortinet Support are available 24x7x365.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Pre-sales consultancy Online Training User documentation
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- No user data is retained as part of the service.
- End-of-contract process
- Renewal notice issued 90 days prior to contract end date.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
- Fortinet provides a web-based interface called FortiPortal for administering their Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offering, which is part of their FortiCloud platform. FortiPortal serves as the central management console for configuring, monitoring, and managing FortiGate firewall instances deployed as a cloud-based service.
- Web interface accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 AAA
- Web interface accessibility testing
- N/a
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- Fortinet provides an API (Application Programming Interface) to administer their Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offering, which is part of their FortiCloud platform. The API allows administrators to programmatically manage and configure FortiGate firewall instances deployed as a cloud-based service.
- API automation tools
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- Ansible
- Chef
- Terraform
- Puppet
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
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- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- MacOS
- Other
- Using the command line interface
- Fortinet provides a Command-Line Interface (CLI) to administer their Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offering, which is part of their FortiCloud platform. The CLI allows administrators to interact with and manage FortiGate firewall instances deployed as a cloud-based service using command-line commands.
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
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- Automatic
- Manual
- Independence of resources
- The underlying resources (CPU and Memory) are under the control of the client and can be extended if required. The product is sold based on per instance therefore a client may have to purchase multiple instances if usage goes beyond initially anticipated levels.
- Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
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- API
- SMS
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Fortinet
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Supplier-defined controls
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- What’s backed up
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- Configuration backups, scheduled and on-demand
- Granular restore capability allows for full or partial configuration restore
- Backup controls
- See vendor documentation for further detail
- Datacentre setup
- Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
- Scheduling backups
- Users schedule backups through a web interface
- Backup recovery
- Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Availability of the deployed service is the responsibility of the customer
- Approach to resilience
- This information can be made available upon request
- Outage reporting
- This information can be made available upon request
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Role based access control
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
- Devices users manage the service through
- Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- QMS International Ltd
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 30/11/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Security governance policies available upon request
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their configuration and change management approach on request.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their Vulnerability Management approach on request.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their proactive monitoring approach on request.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their Incident Management approach on request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- No
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
- Description of energy efficient datacentres
- Documentation on the EU code of conduct for Energy Efficient data centres can be provided upon request.
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestCovid-19 recovery
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestTackling economic inequality
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestEqual opportunity
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestWellbeing
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon request
Pricing
- Price
- £1,000 an instance
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- A free or trial version/PoC can be requested from FullProxy. More details can be provided upon request.