In recent years, the landscape of application delivery has undergone significant transformations influenced by evolving technology trends and the increasing adoption of cloud computing. Many organizations are integrating on-premises data centers with public cloud environments to optimize application performance, enhance scalability, and improve overall business agility
FortiADC, the advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC), optimizes application delivery, enhances performance, and ensures application security whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud. FortiADC offers robust L4-L7 load-balancing capabilities with Scripting support for content manipulation and Advanced SSL Services (Offloading and mirroring). FortiADC also offers application acceleration, authentication, and built-in security features like Web Application Firewall protection for any application threats AL (Adaptive Learning), and OWASP Top10 Compliance Policy), DDoS Protection, ZTNA, and more. With flexible deployment options (HW, VM, FortiFlex, and Cloud Providers) and integration into the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiADC empowers businesses to deliver exceptional application experiences and security.
Data Optimization FortiADC provides multiple services that speed the delivery of applications to users. The PageSpeed suite of website performance enhancement tools can automatically optimize HTTP, CSS, Javascript, and image delivery to application users. FortiADC also provides Dynamic Caching and HTTP Compression and Decompression to improve end-user experience and server productivity. Application Access Management FortiADC provides centralized user authentication and authorization services to web applications. FortiADC acts as a gatekeeper to offload HTTP authentication and authorization to customer applications using single sign-on (SSO) services, SAML, LDAP, RADIUS, and MFA (using FortiToken Cloud and Google authenticator). AI Security FortiADC now supports AI security with Threat Analytics and FortiGuard Advanced Bot Protection. • Threat Analytics continuously assesses your security posture by monitoring attacks on your web assets and evaluating your WAF and Security configuration and, based on the Insights, provides recommended actions that can enhance your WAF and Security configuration settings, block future attacks, and reduce false positives. • FortiGuard Advanced Bot Protection is a comprehensive defense against the ever-present threat of bots. It provides a cutting-edge SaaS solution to safeguard your web applications and digital assets from the ever evolving threat of bots using client and server telemetry and deep learning.
Highlights Application Availability Applications are the lifeblood of a company’s online presence. Unresponsive applications can result in lost revenue and customers taking their future business elsewhere. Application performance, scalability, and resilience are key but none of this matters unless the end-user has a good experience and completes their transaction. FortiADC is a dedicated Application Delivery Control solution that provides a multi-tenancy solution (VDOM and ADOM), high availability, and scalability with hybrid solution deployment (on-premises and cloud offering) to your applications. Web Application Protection FortiADC Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides a comprehensive security solution designed to protect web applications from a wide range of threats. Our WAF includes robust features such as AL (Adaptive Learning), which dynamically analyzes client and server traffic to build policies in real-time for blocking web attacks. In addition to adaptive learning,
FortiADC WAF offers extensive WAF signatures, ensuring protection against the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. It also includes advanced API security and safeguards against credential stuffing attacks, delivering a holistic and intelligent approach to application security. Application Anywhere (GSLB) The FortiADC included Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) module on-prem or in the cloud (FortiGSLB Cloud) makes your network reliable and available by scaling applications across multiple data centers for disaster recovery or to improve application response times. Customers can n set up rules based on site availability, data center performance, and network latency.