Fortinet security fabric

As organizations face the rapidly expanding digital attack surface, customers increasingly seek to achieve an integrated security approach. Various IT solutions working in isolation are not enough to address the critical gaps that contribute to increased security risks. Still, nearly two-thirds of enterprises in EMA's Network Management Megatrends 2020 report indicated they use between four and 10 network management tools.Lack of integration and automation across products hinders visibility, making life very complicated for IT and security departments. Enterprise deployments can often be comprised of 30+ point products, mostly from different security vendors. These independent and often isolated systems may not share threat intelligence or take coordinated security policy actions to respond to fast-moving cyberthreats, resulting in greatly reduced overall security effectiveness.The Fortinet Security Fabric has an architectural approach to security designed to connect traditionally disparate security solutions into a unified framework, allowing them to dynamically adapt to the evolving IT Infrastructure in order to defend its rapidly changing attack surface. Fortinet’s Open Fabric Ecosystem allows participating partners from an array of industries to seamlessly integrate their solutions with the Security Fabric, thus extending the benefits of the Security Fabric through pre-validated and documented joint solutions with advanced security. The Fortinet Security Fabric enables organizations to achieve an integrated platform approach for complete visibility and comprehensive security without compromise across every network segment and device, and across hardware, virtual and cloud environments. Fortinet’s Open Fabric Ecosystem Provides Integrated Solutions Fortinet’s Open Fabric Ecosystem With over 400 technology integrations, Fortinet’s Open Fabric Ecosystem is one of the largest cybersecurity ecosystems in the industry. The ecosystem is comprised of Fabric-Ready technology alliance partners, collaborations with threat sharing organizations and other technology integrations, delivering comprehensive end to end security. These ecosystem integrations enable threat intelligence sharing to detect, monitor, block, and remediate attacks across the entire attack surface, ensuring rapid and coordinated policy enforcement. The integration platform approach helps streamline and automate security, enabling customers to rapidly and effectively respond to today’s most sophisticated threats. Fortinet’s Fabric-Ready Partner Program, launched in 2016, plays a key role in the Open Fabric Ecosystem. The Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program acts as the enabler and brings together the community of technology alliance partners to deliver powerful complementary solutions in the Open Fabric Ecosystem. Partners are provided with program infrastructure, resources, and tools to integrate with the Security Fabric, develop joint solutions, and become part of the ecosystem. Fortinet’s open ecosystem approach extends the capabilities of the Security Fabric to the Fabric-Ready partner solutions and enables integration of new solutions into the Fabric.Value to CustomersCustomers benefit from the Open Fabric Ecosystem extension of the Fortinet Security Fabric through the following types of integrated ecosystem solutions:Fabric Connectors: Fortinet-developed deep integrations into technology partner platforms that automate operations, policies, and processes. Fabric APIs: Partner-developed Fabric API integrations for a broad range of ecosystem solutions to secure the entire digital attack surface. Fabric DevOps: Community-driven set of security automation and orchestration tools and scripts developed by Fortinet, partners, and customers.Extended Fabric Ecosystem:

Threat intelligence sharing collaborations and other vendor technology integrations.Customers can leverage a wide array of integrated ecosystem solutions to best fit and secure their infrastructure while preserving their existing security investments. Through threat intelligence sharing and coordinated policy enforcement across products, ecosystem solutions provide customers with effective security. Pre-validation of ecosystem solutions enables customers to make purchase decisions with more confidence and gain faster time to deployment with reduced systems integrations costs. Ecosystem solutions extend the benefits of the Security Fabric, and are a testament to the openness of the Security Fabric and the inclusive philosophy of the Fabric-Ready Partner Program. The Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner ProgramThe Fabric-Ready Partner Program is Fortinet’s technology alliance partner program, and serves as a key enabler of the Open Fabric Ecosystem. Partner inclusion in the program signals to customers and the industry at large that the partner has collaborated with Fortinet to develop integrated solutions. The Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program provides partners with an edge by being allied with a rapidly growing and widely deployed market leader. Customers also benefit from the knowledge and confidence that the Fabric-Ready partner has worked with Fortinet to validate and deliver integrated solutions ready for deployment. Fabric-Ready alliance partners can tap into Fortinet’s alliance program, technical integration, co-marketing, and training resources, further ensuring joint customer success. For more information on the Fabric-Ready Partner Program and how to become a Fabric-Ready partner, visit here.

Into security action. New network topology visualizations and enhanced interactive views for auditing, logging, and reporting enable IT teams to easily modify their networks in real-time.FortiOS 5.6 provides proactive security recommendations to help improve network effectiveness and compliance.As a foundational technology of the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiOS 5.6 scales from IoT to the Cloud and across physical, virtual, and hybrid environments to segment and protect the entire attack surface of the largest, globally distributed enterprises.Security Operations Solutions Unifies Network and Security Operations Delivering End-to-End Security Fabric VisibilityThe Fortinet Security Operations Solution unifies network and security operations within the Fortinet Security Fabric to arm IT and security leaders with insights that maximize their technology infrastructure. Security Operations consists of FortiSIEM, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiManager solutions that can be deployed standalone or in conjunction to meet the unique needs of individual organizations.FortiSIEM is an all-in-one NOC and SOC solution that offers automatic security, visibility, performance, and availability monitoring in real-time. FortiSIEM is capable of compiling and correlating intelligence from the Fortinet Security Fabric plus data from thousands of additional IT assets including switches and servers, to desktops and IoT devices, all through a single pane of glass.FortiSIEM also supports external threat intelligence feeds and event logs to extend the advanced analytics and compliance capabilities of the Fortinet Security Fabric to every physical and virtual asset across an enterprises entire technology footprint.Supporting QuotesGartner“Intent-based networking adoption is being driven by digital business transformation's requirements to increase network agility while increasing reliability/availability. The increasing complexity of networks, combined with critical skills shortages in design/deploy/operate tasks, are increasing pressure on infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to find a better way to map the requirements of the business to infrastructure behavior in a timely, consistent and verifiable way.”1“Unlike any other approach, intent-based networking algorithmically proves the "correctness" of the configuration before deployment and continuously monitors the operation of the network. If it detects a condition that no longer satisfies the intent of the design, it alerts operations and, if possible, takes corrective action to re-establish the correctness.”1“Intent-based networking solutions promise to dramatically improve network design and operation. In today's enterprise networks, we are dependent on network architects' ability to understand the totality of the environment, and their ability to generate a design that meets the needs of the applications they support. However, as computing environments became larger, more complex and more dynamic, it became impossible for the architect to achieve more than an "informed best guess" of the required configuration — to verify or prove the correctness of the design/configuration — the intent. This leads to unplanned outages and sometimes long, difficult troubleshooting activities.”1AvailabilityFortiOS Release 5.6 will be available to download in the first quarter of 2017. Fortinet’s Security Operations Solution is available now. Please contact your authorized Fortinet distributor for additional details.Additional ResourcesPlease visit www.fortinet.com for more details about the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiOS and Security Operations Solution.Follow Fortinet on Twitter and LinkedIn, and Facebook.Join the conversation on the Fortinet blog.Extending the Security Fabric: FortiOS 5.6 and

Fortinet Expands Security Fabric Visibility and Automation Capabilities Across Security Devices and Into Network and Security Operations Centers FORTINET ACCELERATE 2017 CONFERENCE – LAS VEGAS - Jan 10, 2017 Ken Xie, founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer at Fortinet“The demands of today’s digital economy are driving increasingly complex networks that require highly skilled and rare talent to design, deploy, operate, and most importantly secure. Today’s point products and platform security solutions simply aren’t capable of providing the solution breadth, processing performance, or advanced automation necessary to address these demands. It’s clear that traditional approaches to security are quickly becoming unsustainable. The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers the broad, powerful, and automated security solutions needed to solve today’s challenges while laying the foundation for the self-sufficient, Intent-Based Network Security that will be critical to protect tomorrow’s enterprises.News SummaryFortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced enhanced offerings that provide the building blocks for tomorrow’s self-provisioning, self-operating and self-correcting, Intent-Based Network Security. The latest innovations in the Security Fabric include the release of FortiOS 5.6, the world’s most advanced security operating system, along with Fortinet’s new Security Operations Solution.The Fortinet Security Fabric Lays the Groundwork for Tomorrow’s Intent-Based Network SecurityAccording to a recent report by Joe Skorupa and Andrew Lerner, “Intent-based networking adoption is being driven by digital business transformation's requirements to increase network agility while increasing reliability/availability. The increasing complexity of networks, combined with critical skills shortages in design/deploy/operate tasks, are increasing pressure on infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to find a better way to map the requirements of the business to infrastructure behavior in a timely, consistent and verifiable way.”1As a complement to intent-based networking technologies, Fortinet’s vision is to deliver Intent-Based Network Security that will enable the Fortinet Security Fabric to automatically translate business requirements into synchronized network security actions without human intervention. This will free enterprises to design more advanced security architectures while greatly simplifying complex deployments and reducing operational burdens; ultimately delivering largely self-sufficient technology infrastructures capable of continuously maintaining an optimal security posture across the entire attack surface.The major enhancements to Fortinet’s flagship operating system combined with its Security Operations Solution deliver unprecedented vision and automation capabilities across an enterprise’s entire infrastructure, from the endpoints to the cloud. These combined capabilities also represent continued innovation of the Fortinet Security Fabric and provide a framework for tomorrow’s advanced Intent-Based Network Security.FortiOS Expands Security Fabric Capabilities Across Devices and ApplicationsThe FortiOS release 5.6 combines numerous technological innovations to deliver universal and centralized capabilities far beyond those of traditional security platforms or point solutions available today.FortiOS 5.6 provides total IT awareness with instant visibility into every security element through a single pane of glass and provides open APIs (Application Program Interface) to integrate with Fabric Ready partner solutions.Expanded vision into Fortinet’s Wireless Access Points, Switches and Sandboxes results in enhanced management and truly centralized control over networking components and advanced threat protections.A revamped User Interface (UI) was designed to rapidly turn IT awareness

DescriptionThis article describes possible troubleshooting if issues arise when adding a FortiGate to an existing Security Fabric.Useful information about the Security Fabric can be found there Fortinet Security Fabric v6.0.6 and Fortinet Security Fabric v6.2.0.ScopeFortiGate.SolutionThe Fortinet Security Fabric is a feature that provides visibility on connected Fortinet devices, especially FortiGates, in a single root FortiGate. Sometimes issues can arise when a FortiGate is added to an existing Security Fabric, impeding visibility and communication between the Fabric nodes.Errors will mainly be displayed in the Security Fabric section in the FortiGate GUI. Error messages regarding FortiView and/or FortiAnalyzer usually indicate an issue on that FortiGate communicating with the Fabric FortiAnalyzer or some issues with logs, but not a connectivity issue between two FortiGates.If an issue arises, the following troubleshooting can be done:In CLI, collect this output:diag debug resetdiag debug app csfd -1diag debug enObserve what error messages show up in the CLI. A common error can be that CAs (Certificate Authorities) are missing. This can lead to errors like the following: 02 __ssl_recv()-596: ssl error: error:14094418:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert unknown caThis indicates that one FortiGate does not trust the certificates used by the other FortiGate; to fix this, download the CAs on each FortiGate and import them to the other.Also, restart the csf daemon after this has occurred.To restart the csf daemon:Find the daemon process ID (PID):diag sys process pidof csfd ##in version 6.0 and higherfnsysctl cat /var/run/csf.pid ## in version 5.6Kill the daemon (it will restart automatically):diag sys kill 11 Restarting the csf daemon in general can resolve some issues as well.General troubleshooting should also be done:Verify the affected FortiGates can reach each other (ping, https, ssh)Check the crashlog on each FortiGate for crashes with these processes: csf, miglogddiag debug crashlog readCheck the release notes for the firmware versions of the devices for possible known issues regarding Security Fabric.Note:Make sure there is no compatibility issue by verifying that the FortiGates are in a similar firmware version if possible, and that any FortiAnalyzer (and FortiManager, if exist) are in a compatible firmware version. FortiAnalyzer/FortiManager has to be at least the same branch as the highest FortiGate.Compatibility matrixes can be found here: Fortinet Document Library in the FortiManager or FortiAnalyzer section.It is also possible to check the following debug commands in the root FortiGate if it is not possible to authorize any device:diag debug resetdiag debug cli 8diag debug enablediag sys csf authorization accept If it gives duplicate error , check whether any existing fabric device has an index value of 0 or not under the trusted list. If any device has an index value of 0, then we can change it to a non-zero value to resolve the issue.Following is the reference output:conf