Oracle Magazine, May/June 2018

SPONSORED CONTENT many cloud based security tools are simply virtual versions of their enterprise based appliances These tools dont meter and track security consumption Fortinets VM On Demand security platform provides a turnkey VM licensing and provisioning platform for cloud providers and MSSPs as well as enterprises with large private cloud resources Its metering capabilities enable them to deliver on demand pricing and automation to end customers The VM On Demand security platform supports consumption based pay as you grow billing with hourly or volume based metering options as well as network functions virtualization NFV orchestration compatibility for MSSPs When its paired with FortiHypervisor VM On Demand offers cloud providers and enterprises the widest choice of physical virtual and hybrid customer premises equipment CPE form factors to support managed security and software defined wide area networking SD WAN services Q Many enterprises are embracing Oracle Cloud as their public cloud solution How does the Fortinet Security Fabric improve security and compliance for Oracle Cloud customers A We want businesses to be able to experience the same level of cybersecurity and threat intelligence in cloud environments as they do on their physical networks Thats why weve extended the core capabilities of Fortinet Security Fabric to the cloud For example we have enhanced our virtualized FortiGate to deliver cloud scale performance for private and public clouds Its VMs now deliver up to three times faster percore throughput than before with increased capacity options We are also improving public cloud security automation with on demand and autoscale capabilities Fortinet Security Fabric virtual solutions deliver complete content and network protection and they are available on demand or BYOL Bring Your Own Licenses helping to take advantage of elastic workloads and automated security that scales with their needs Fortinet has also introduced a new APIbased FortiCASB service which lets IT teams maintain security visibility for both on and off network user access to some of the most widely used SaaS applications including Microsoft Office 365 Q What are some of the ways Oracle and Fortinet are working together to help organizations protect multidimensional cloud environments A Fortinet and Oracle continue to expand their relationship to deliver virtualized security solutions across Oracle public and hybrid cloud environments Available now as a BYOL offering in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace FortiGate VMs give Oracle Cloud customers a combination of advanced threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs along with the industry leading security operating system FortiOS Together these solutions enable complete security feature control workload visibility and management across physical virtual and cloud environments Fortinet is an early adopter of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure featuring its FortiGate VM This close integration lets users securely move business critical workloads from on premises private to public cloud deployments without compromising policy visibility As Oracle Cloud scales through multiple Availability Domains ADs FortiGate will complement the cloud services with highly available multi layered security to support our customers most critical workloads across every environment Together Oracle and Fortinet will continue to deliver the on demand multiple layers of security that todays dynamic cloud networks need most