Product Description
Fortinet’s FortiClient Host Securitycombines remote access with antivirus and personal firewallfunctionalities to enable yourtraveling employees, teleworkers,and businesspartners to easily and securely access IPSec VPNappliancesor networks protected by FortiGate
Antivirus Firewall systems, and to deliver virus and worm protection. FortiClient Host Security provides support for a wide range of applications, including remote access to corporate networks, remote system administration, virus/worm detection and removal, and personal firewall, all with a single, easy to use interface. Designed to extend real-time protection to the desktop and mobile users, the FortiClient Host Security automatically removes viruses, spyware, worms, and trojans by scanning and cleaning both incoming and outgoing email messages.
Virus and worm updates can be set to automatically download. Enhanced threat detection provides added protection from viruses and spyware by alerting users when viruses and spyware attempt to change the Windows registry files.
FortiClient Host Security is compatible with any kind of network connection, including dial-up, xDSL, and cable modem, in addition to wired and wireless LANs, and is available for Microsoft® Windows™ NT4 (Service Pack 6), 2000 and XP (SP2) operating systems. The FortiClient Host Security provides industry standard encryption algorithms, such as DES, 3DES, and AES, to ensure data privacy as it travels the public Internet. The multiple remote networks feature allows the FortiClient
Host Security to connect to more than one network behind a FortiGate Antivirus Firewall. Network Address Translation- Traversal (NAT-T) technology provides easy integration with existing firewall and network address translation systems.
Product Highlights
• Provides test tunnel and log diagnostic to assist in troubleshooting IPSec VPN tunnels
• Supports a user friendly graphical user interface for configuration and management
• Combines antivirus scanning functionality with a remote access VPN client
• Viewable logs assist in troubleshooting IPSec connections and auditing virus/worm incidents
• Personal firewall functionality restricts what information is communicated between the Internet and your computer
• Xauth adds another level of authentication for added security when users request an IPSec connection
• Supports X.509 digital certificates for authentication
• Retrieve a virtual IP address from the internal network through DHCP over IPSec
Key Features:
• Real-time anti-virus protection certified by ICSA Labs and VB100% to effectively protect against viruses, worms, rootkits, etc.
• Powerful anti-spyware protection certified by ICSA Labs to effectively protect against adware, keyloggers, etc.
• Personal Firewall and Intrusion Prevention to monitor the efficacy of end point network traffic
• Application Control to explicit define application behavior and permissions
• Anti-Spam that interoperates with Microsoft Outlook to protect against email borne phishing attacks
• Web Content Filtering to protect against offensive web content and web borne phishing attacks
• IPSEC VPN to secure communication traffic from mobile PC to company headquarters
• Real-Time security subscription delivered by Fortinet's World renown FortiGuard™ security R&D team
• Centrally manageable and can scale from 1 to 10,000+ PC end points
Benefits :
Remote Access
• FortiClient allows remote users to connect securely to a network protected by FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls.
• Enhance productivity through anytime, anywhere access for mobile and remote workers and telecommuters
Antivirus Protection
• Automatically removes viruses, spyware, worms and trojan horses.
• Provides virus and worm protection for today’s most damaging threats
>Enhanced ThreatDetection
• Stops viruses and spyware that attempt to change or embed themselves in the Windows registry.
• Enhanced threat detection and prevention gives users the choice to accept or reject the change in the Windows registry
Personal Firewall
• Provides application access control to grant applications access to network resources across the trusted, and public zones.
• Allows users granular control of incoming and outgoing traffic to provide protection from unauthorized access and privacy threats
Diagnostic Tools
• Comprehensive tools provide viewable logs and IPSec tunnel diagnostic test.
• Diagnostic test ensures remote policy settings are correct and viewable logs for auditing
Ease of Use
• Easy to configure implementation of IPSec and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocols.
• Easy installation and configuration assists in deployment