Service Description

FortiGate Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Version 2024.01.01

FortiGate FWaaS is a cloud-based service that offers a fully managed and highly available firewall appliance. The service is compatible with VLAN-based private networks, cloud, and colocation workloads and can protect your network from cyber threats, control traffic, and enforce security policies. Read more

Locations

The product is present in the following locations:

  • dc-fbg1 (our DC in Falkenberg, Sweden)
  • dc-sto1 (our DC in Stockholm, Sweden)
  • dc-oul1 (our DC in Oulu, Finland)

Features at a Glance

  • L3 and L7 policy-based industry-leading firewall technology
  • IPsec and SSL VPN
  • Anti-malware protection
  • Intrusion detection and prevention
  • URL, DNS, and video filtering
  • Automatically updated detection databases
  • Possibility to export logs
  • Easy integration with SSOs and IdPs

Technical Specification

Customer self-service Yes. You get access to a web-based management GUI with full admin rights.
Capacity Firewall throughput ranges from 100 Mbps up to tens of Gbps.
High availability Yes. We provide redundant firewall hardware, power, and network architecture.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure platform GleSYS
Service configuration Customer
Upgrades and patching GleSYS
Monitoring (customer-specific feature configs, for example, IPsec tunnels) Customer