Fortinet FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

Surfing the Internet has become a critical part of conducting business and often a requirement for government and educational institutions. However inappropriate Internet usage has led to lower productivity, inappropriate use of company resources, harassment, legal liability, and human resource issues. Fortinet's FortiGuard Web Filtering Service delivers updates from the Fortinet Global Threat Research Team to regulate web activities to meet different usage polices and compliance requirements. With 75 web content categories, over 30 million rated websites and more than two billion web pages, the FortiGuard Web Filtering Service is one of the industry's most accurate integrated web filtering services.

What Is Fortinet's FortiGuard Web Filtering Service?

It is a hosted service designed to provide Web URL filtering for schools, libraries, government agencies, and enterprise businesses of all sizes. The FortiGuard Web Filtering solution consists of two parts, the FortiGuard Rating Server and the FortiGate multi-threat security system. The FortiGuard Rating Server is a master ratings database that consists of billions of web page addresses. The FortiGuard Web Filtering service can be activated on all FortiGate security systems to regulate and block access to harmful, inappropriate and dangerous websites which may contain Phishing attacks and/or malware such as spyware.

Key Features & Benefits:

• Granular Blocking & Filtering: Provides policy based access control based on catagories, website and pages.
• Comprehensive URL Database: With 75 categories, over 30 million rated websites and more than two billion web pages.
• Device-based Licensing: Eliminate per-user based licensing delivers lower TCO.
• FortiGate Integration: Fully integrates with all FortiGate appliances with automatic pull and push signature updates
• Powered by Fortinet: Real-time updated from Fortinet Global Threats Research Team.

Why Choose the FortiGuard Web Filtering Service?

With the industry leading content ratings database providing up-to-date website categorization and web page ratings, Fortinet consistently deliver highly accurate content filtering service. With the combination of high accuracy, easy configuration, and over 75 rating categories, the FortiGuard Web Filtering offers undisputed value and performance that can help customers regulate and filter web activities.

Fortinet Advantages:

• Real-time web filtering service for FortiGate platforms and FortiClient end point security software
• Fully integrated with other UTM services including Firewall, Antivirus, Antispam and Intrusion Prevention.
• Helps to reduce resource abuse and legal liability
• Protect against access to inappropriate content in workplace, school and home

How Does FortiGuard Web Filtering Work?

• User requests access to a web page.
• If the rating for the web page is already cached in the FortiGate unit, it is immediately compared with the policy for the user. If the web page is allowed, the request is sent to the website (3a) and the response is retrieved (4b).
• If the web page rating is not in the FortiGate cache, the request is sent to the website (3a) and a rating request is made simultaneously to the FortiGuard Rating Server (3b).
• When the rating response is received by the FortiGate unit (4a), it is compared with the requestor's policy rules (2).
• If the policy is to allow the page, the Web site response (4b) is passed to the requestor (5). Otherwise, a user-definable "blocked" message is sent to the requestor and the event is logged in the content filtering log.

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• Fortinet FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

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