IBM Cloud and Fortinet have rolled out a virtual appliance that promises to protect enterprise traffic and data traversing cloud networks.
The Fortinet Virtual FortiGate Security Appliance (vFSA) on IBM Cloud extends the security capabilities of FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFW) across the IBM Cloud network, the companies wrote in a blog outlining the news.
The vFSA includes advanced threat protection capabilities that enable it to inspect application traffic across the network and block threats or suspicious traffic. It also features AI-based inline malware prevention and advanced sandboxing to analyze and block unknown and zero-day threats. It can also monitor and filter network traffic for remote access and visibility into new devices that are added, such as IoT devices, the companies wrote.
