Fortify Your Networks

Firewall
Technology Advancements Enable Refresh and Replace
Opportunities

Better Better Better Data Center Perimeter Core Segmentation Distributed Firewall
Firewall Firewall
Performance Efficiency Security

Firewall As a Service OT Firewall Cloud Native Firewall

Security Compute Security Compute FortiGuard

Rating Rating - Energy Labs

Virtual Machine Firewall Container Firewall

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7x better than the
competition 29x better than the
competition 99.88%
security
effectiveness Hybrid Mesh
Firewall
Competitors: <80% security
effectiveness

Mid-Range Average 90G Security Compute Rating CyberRatings.org Security

Effectiveness Report

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Secure Compute Rating Competitive Advantage

Security
FortiGate Competitors Network Processor
Specification Compute
90G Average
Rating
Firewall (Gbps) 28 9.1x 3.08
IPSec VPN (Gbps) 25 17.7x 1.41
Threat Protection (Gbps) 2.2 1.8x 1.19
SSL Inspection (Gbps) 2.6 - - Security Processor
Concurrent Sessions 1.5M 1.8x 852K
Connections per Second 124K 4.1x 30K

FortiGate Energy Competitors

Energy Consumption
90G Efficiency Average

Watts/Firewall Throughput 0.87 28.8x 25.06

Watts/IPVPN Throughput 0.94 81.1x 76.25
BTU/h per Firewall Throughput 2.97 17.4 51.8

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Our Investments Are Clearly Working

Firewall Units Shipped Product Revenue

5 YR CAGR
FTNT = 23% $1,927
50%
PANW = 10% $1,781
CHKP = (1%) $1,627
40% $1,443

$1,255
30% $1,062 $1,079
$1,002 $1,232
$916

$ in Millions
$789
20% $674
$526 $511 $514 $514 $555
$497

10%

0%
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Fortinet Palo Alto Networks Check Point
Fortinet PAN CheckPoint Juniper

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Enterprise Firewall Use Cases

Branch Firewall Campus Firewall Data Center Perimeter

Firewall

Use Case: Use Case: Use Case:

Enterprise-grade network security and industry Enterprise-grade network security and industry Perimeter NGFW with industry leading price
leading price-performance across distributed leading price-performance across distributed performance and full suite of Enterprise.
branch edges in an integrated appliance. branch edges in an integrated appliance.

Differentiators: Differentiators: Differentiators:

• ASIC: Security Processor (SPU) ASIC technology • ASIC: Network Processor Unit (NPU) and Security • ASIC: Network Processor Unit (NPU) and
allows over 14 Applications to run on a small Processor (SPU) ASIC technology with Enterprise Security Processor (SPU) ASIC technology with
hardened footprint. See Security Compute Rating NGFW performance including SSL inspection. See best-in-class NGFW performance, including
• Portfolio Coverage: LTE/5G, Ruggedized, Security Compute Rating
SSL inspection. See Security Compute Rating
DSL, PoE, Wi-Fi. • Enterprise Security: Industry's Highest Security • DDoS Defense against volumetric attacks in
• Enterprise Security: Industry's Highest Efficacy@ 99.88%, validated by independent excess of 100Gbit/s
Security Efficacy@ 99.88%, validated by third-party organizations. • Enterprise Security: Industry's Highest
independent third-party organizations. • SD-WAN: Integrated enterprise-class SD-WAN
Security Efficacy@ 99.88%, validated by
• SD-WAN: Integrated enterprise-class SD-WAN at no cost independent third-party organizations.
at no cost

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Enterprise Firewall Use Cases

Hyperscale Ultra Low Latency Virtual Firewall

Use Case: Use Case: Use Case:

Hyperscale performance and acceleration, Optimized for speed in environments like Cloud and DC East-West Enterprise class Firewall
leveraging advanced parallel processing and finance/trading floors, ecommerce, streaming, and and NGFW
optimization techniques to ensure seamless data gaming environments, the firewall ensures minimal
transfer while maintaining robust security protocols delay with stringent security protocols, enabling
high-speed transactions without sacrificing security
Differentiators: Differentiators: Differentiators:
• Performance: Accelerated processing to thwart • ASIC: Network Processor Unity (NPU) ASIC with • Performance: Virtual Security Processing Units
DDoS attack traffic while allowing legitimate high port density delivers high speed stateful (vSPUs) provide 3X performance boost for
uninterrupted traffic to pass through for high- firewall inspection and <2 us low latency processing firewall rules.
volume applications such as Financial/trading • Real-Time Applications and Services: Demand • Security Efficacy: Consistent security policies
and streaming ultra-low latency and Fortinet excls in the market across cloud and hybrid cloud/on-prem
• Service Providers: , ultra-high CGNAT with <2 us low-latency ensuring that the network deployments with FOS everywhere.
performance + hardware logging capacity infrastructure can support emerging technologies • Cloud Integration: SDN connectors ensure
• Portfolio: 400GE Built-in Ports designed to and demands security policies are dynamically updated as
provide high-speed, secure connectivity for • Elephant Flow: Support for data replication or application traffic changes.
large-scale networks and data centers. vmotion.

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Top Take Aways - Firewall

• Fortinet ASIC technology powers FortiGate firewalls to deliver unmatched threat protection with
up to 4X the average throughput, reaching speeds of up to 520 GB, ensuring comprehensive
security at scale.
• FortiGate achieves up to 5X faster SSL inspection, enabling more thorough and efficient
decryption and inspection of encrypted traffic without compromising performance.
• FortiGate hyperscale firewalls offer high port density with a variety of interface speeds, including
400GbE, 200GbE, and 50GbE. This allows organizations to scale their security infrastructure as their
needs grow without having to rip and replace existing equipment.​
• Operating with up to 88% less power consumption, FortiGate provides a greener, more cost-
effective security solution, reducing the total cost of ownership and environmental impact.
• FortiGate hardware-accelerated DDoS protection shields networks from volumetric attacks,
preserving availability and performance.
• Fortinet enables organizations with business continuity with a combination of session
synchronization, load balancing and stateful failover for uninterrupted upgrades in High-
Availability configuration

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