Today, businesses across industries are making the leap towards digital transformation in order to meet customer demands for greater convenience, accessibility, and connectivity. However, as businesses begin to adopt a wider variety of cloud-based services to help expand their digital offerings, the amount of SSL traffic they're relying on across their networks increases proportionately. In fact, NSS Labs predicts that around 75 percent of total enterprise traffic will be encrypted by next year.

When it comes to securing today's increasing amount of SSL traffic, NGFW solutions continue to act as a foundational security solution. However, your customers need modern firewall solutions that allow them to expand their digital services without jeopardizing their ability to maintain effective security posture. In order to do this, firewall solutions need to be able to provide high-speed SSL inspection combined with threat detection and protection that can keep up with modern, sophisticated cyberthreats as well as high-performance digital business demands.

Even with such a dire need for NGFWs that can actively protect SSL-encrypted traffic, the vast majority of competitive solutions available to your customers don't have the capability to inspect SSL without dramatically reducing the performance of the NGFW solution. Subsequently, the majority of vendors don't publish their SSL performance numbers.

With this in mind, Fortinet is proud to have received NSS Labs' coveted "Recommended" rating for our FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall solution for the fifth consecutive year. By demonstrating high SSL performance, 100% accurate evasion detection, and optimal total cost of ownership, this third-party validation helps emphasize your business's ability to connect your customers with the very best cybersecurity solutions.

Securing SSL-Encrypted Traffic

In January of last year, encrypted traffic surpassed the volume of unencrypted traffic for the first time, and continues to grow with no signs of slowing down. However, many of your customers still operate under the assumption that because traffic is encrypted, it's inherently secure. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Like any attack vector along a network, cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout for new and innovative ways to exploit vulnerabilities.

What's more, our Global Threat Landscape Report for Q1 indicated that 16.8% of the top 20 unique exploits detected were using SSL-encrypted traffic to hide malicious code and exfiltrate data. In order to properly secure SSL traffic against threats, your customers need solutions capable of actively conducting full SSL inspection-a process that involves decrypting the data, examining it for potential threats, and then re-encrypting it so it can then be securely transmitted to the appropriate receiver.  

Reimagining the Industry Standard to Better Serve Your Customers

In order to ensure that we maintain our ability to secure businesses and organizations, our NGFW solutions are setting a new standard for protection and performance.

With this in mind, our NGFWs offer a variety of benefits that help our partners deliver effective and scalable solutions that actively secure their customers against today's threat landscape. Specifically, FortiGate NGFWs provide your customers with: