Fortinet FortiAppSec Cloud SOCaaS Add-ons
Web and API Security, Availability, and Performance

Use Cases:

Comprehensive Web and API Security, Including Advanced Bot Protection

FortiAppSec Cloud offers robust Web Application Firewall (WAF) and API security, complemented by Advanced Bot Protection, which detects and blocks sophisticated bot behaviors to different legitimate users from automated attacks. This use case is ideal for organizations looking to secure web applications and APIs while preventing bot-driven fraud and abuse.

Optimized Global Traffic Management with Enhanced Security

The FortiAppSec Cloud Platform uses Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) to dynamically route traffic across multiple data centers, ensuring high availability and optimized performance, while WAF and API security protect the application layer from vulnerabilities. This solution is especially effective for organizations needing to deliver secure and optimized content globally with integrated protection.

Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Application Deployment

FortiAppSec Cloud ensures consistent security policies across all environments, with global load balancing to distribute traffic efficiently between clouds and data centers. This deployment is particularly useful for ensuring high availability and failover, guaranteeing application uptime even during outages or regional disruptions.

API Protection for Microservices Architectures

FortiAppSec Cloud ensures that API traffic is protected against common threats, such as injection attacks or API-specific vulnerabilities, with advanced security measures like deep packet inspection. API discovery helps identify and catalog APIs across environments to ensure comprehensive protection. Combined with bot protection, this solution safeguards APIs from being exploited by automated attacks, ensuring business continuity and integrity in modern application designs.

Proactive Threat Monitoring and Analytics

With Threat Analytics, organizations gain real-time visibility into potential threats, anomalies, and incidents across their cloud infrastructure. By integrating threat intelligence and security event monitoring into the FortiAppSec Cloud platform, customers can proactively respond to emerging threats and mitigate risks before they impact critical applications.

Features and Capabilities

Web Application Firewall (WAF) and API Security

• Zero day attack protection: dual machine learning to detect and eliminate emerging threats and AI-generated exploits
• Eliminate False Positives: Traffic is analyzed and scrubbed of threats before reaching your applications, ensuring only safe traffic is delivered
• OWASP top 10 Security Risks: Shield your web applications and APIs from attacks targeting the OWASP Top-10 risks to web applications and secure any vulnerabilities
• Automated Updates: Integrated with FortiGuard Labs for real-time threat intelligence, ensuring the latest protection against evolving threats
• Simplified Configuration: Configure and manage WAF policies through a user-friendly interface with minimal resource investment

Advanced Bot Protection

• Behavioral-Based Detection: Biometric and behavioral analysis to detect sophisticated, human-like bot behaviors, ensuring real users can access your applications without disruption
• Device Fingerprinting: IP-agnostic profiling of user devices with advanced fingerprinting techniques to block bot attacks using browser or IP rotation
• Crawler Detection: Identify and block unwanted web crawlers, scrapers, and other automated threats compromising sensitive data
• Historical and Real-Time Analytics: Access real-time and historical traffic monitoring and bot-related insights for enhanced decision-making

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

• DNS-Based Load Balancing: Distributes application traffic across multiple data centers and server pools, enhancing availability and resilience
• Geographic Traffic Distribution: Use Geo-IP and server health metrics to dynamically route traffic to the nearest or best-performing data center
• One-Click Integration: Easy integration with FortiWeb Cloud, ensuring that both security and load balancing are managed within the same platform
• High Availability: Ensure continuous application availability even during regional outages or spikes in demand

Threat Analytics

• Identify Hidden Attack Patterns: AI-based event-correlation and analysis of attack patterns to reveal adversarial campaigns that are likely to go under the radar
• Real-Time Visibility Across the Application Infrastructure: Monitor security events in real time across all applications and infrastructure, providing actionable insights into potential attacks and vulnerabilities
• Proactive Incident Response: Threat intelligence and automated response workflows to quickly mitigate risks before they impact operations
• Centralized Dashboard: Consolidate security data and performance metrics in a single view, simplifying monitoring and decision-making across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Reduce Alert Fatigue: Let Threat Analytics AI compile multiple alerts into a handful of meaningful incidents, helping organizations prioritize and respond to threats more efficiently

Licensing Plans:

FortiAppSec Cloud License Plan Options

FortiAppSec is offered in three tiers to fit a range of customer needs:

• Standard Plan: Core WAF and API security features to protect against common threats
• Advanced Plan: Machine learning WAF, API security, Web Vulnerability Scanning (DAST), and Threat Analytics
• Enterprise Plan: Advanced Bot Protection, Global Server LB, custom rules, and SOC-as-a-Service
• Cloud WAF Add-ons: SOC-as-a-Service (for Standard and Advanced Plans)
• Standalone Service: Global Server LB (DNS QPS, Health Check)

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiAppSec Cloud Data Sheet (PDF).