New High-Performance Behavior-Based DDoS Attack Mitigation Engine and Custom ASICs Stop More Types of Attacks and Do it 10X Faster Than Competitors
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 10, 2014 ― Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) − a world leader in high-performance network security – today expands its Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) family with four new appliances for data center managers and system architects at mid- to large-sized enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs). The new FortiDDoS-400B, FortiDDoS-800B, FortiDDoS-1000B and FortiDDoS-2000B are designed to detect and help protect against today’s most damaging and sophisticated DDoS attacks and feature an innovative 100 percent behavior-based DDoS attack mitigation engine. Combined with a new, single-path custom ASIC that both detects and mitigates DDoS attacks, FortiDDoS is able to detect more types of attacks and performs up to 10X faster than other competing DDoS mitigation appliances.
Innovative Attack and Mitigation Engine
The new behavior-based attack mitigation engine enables FortiDDoS to identify and mitigate current and future threats based on patterns and intent rather than content. Because these appliances don’t require signatures, they are able to better protect against zero-day attacks by dynamically monitoring trends versus waiting for a signature file to be updated. A very short blocking period achieved using high-performance ASICs allows the appliance to continuously reevaluate attacks. This reduces the impact of false positives if traffic patterns return to normal. Competing appliances take much longer to detect attacks and block for much longer periods of time leading to higher false positive.
“We’ve dramatically improved the way we identify DDoS attack types since we released our first appliances in 2012. The adaptive, behavior-based attack monitoring introduced in today’s models automatically identifies any type of DDoS attack, including zero-days, and almost immediately takes action to mitigate it,” said John Maddison, vice president of marketing for Fortinet. “What’s more, we’re able to offer this class-leading performance at less than half the cost of our closest competitors.”
