Fortinet Delivers Advanced Web Application Protection Through New AWS WAF Partner Managed Rules

Regardless of where an application is hosted, once it is exposed to the internet it becomes a target. Internal and externally facing websites inherently have the same weaknesses and vulnerabilities as a website offered through a hosting provider, or even one you may host in your own data center.

For organizations that host their web-based applications on Amazon Web Services, AWS offers a convenient and easy to deploy WAF called AWS WAF. This WAF offers many protections and is a simple add on through the AWS Management Console or APIs.

To further expand AWS WAF, Amazon is welcoming vendors to join AWS in offering pre-packaged rulegroups for AWS WAF. Customers can choose rule sets to best meet their needs and provide flexibility in the protection they want for their applications.

Fortinet is one of the first companies to participate in the expansion of the AWS WAF program with a set of four packaged rulesets. AWS WAF customers can choose from basic WAF rulesets that provide protection from cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and malicious botnets, while our advanced ruleset offers the latest general application attack types and known vulnerabilities. Powered by FortiGuard Labs, this advanced ruleset provides up-to-date signatures that address known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) along with threats that target a broad set of application attack vectors. For customers that want complete protection from the OWASP Top 10 web application threats, Fortinet also offers a comprehensive package of all our rulesets at a discounted price.

Fortinet’s new rulesets are based on the FortiWeb web application firewall security service signatures, and are updated on a regular basis to include the latest updates from FortiGuard Labs. AWS WAF customers can now enjoy nearly the same level of signature protection offered to FortiWeb customers, in an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage form factor.

For AWS customers that need more advanced capabilities than what is offered by the AWS WAF Partner Rulesets, Fortinet also offers numerous options for AWS customers, including four different virtual machine versions of FortiWeb with options for either bringing your own licenses or signing up for FortiWeb on-demand via the AWS Marketplace.

Our FortiWeb VM options for AWS have all the features of our industry leading hardware appliances, including behavioral threat detection to prevent zero-day attacks, user and device tracking for quick analytics, and granular configuration options to fine-tune actions for your AWS web-based applications.

As an AWS Security Competency partner, we’re proud to offer customers the best in security for the web-based applications hosted by Amazon. No matter how large or small an application on AWS may be, Fortinet offers flexible, convenient, and tailored ways to deliver industry-leading threat protection to ensure applications and users are safe from threats targeting known and unknown exploits – even in multi-cloud settings.

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See how customers are already leveraging Fortinet and AWS: Security7 Networks, icare, and Coopenae