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Fortinet’s award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems are the new generation of real time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance.
Fortinet offers the industry's best products and has won the most awards in the network security industry, including Security Product of the Year. The company created and leads the rapidly growing Unified Threat Management (UTM) marketspace and is the only supplier of real time ASIC-accelerated network security systems. The combination of our suite of industry-leading FortiGuard Subscription Service offerings and our intelligent systems offer Enterprise, MSSP and SMB users unparalleled value, best in class performance, and unmatched functionality when compared to any single purpose security appliance or competing Unified Threat Management system.
Our patented product innovation includes Fortinet's intelligent bridge technology, the FortiASIC chip design, FortiOS software, networking, security and content analysis. These technologies have received the most industry certifications including FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria EAL4+ certifications and eight ICSA Certifications - Antivirus, Firewall, IPSec, SSL-TLS, Intrusion Prevention, Client antivirus cleaning & detection , and AntiSpyware. FortiGate systems are also the only Unified Threat Management systems certified by the independent NSS test labs for IPS and UTM.
IT Lab has established itself as a centre of excellence for Fortinet solutions. It has done this by investing in training, lab equipment and a passion for the technology. IT Lab currently supports and manages over 60 Fortinet devices across the UK and Europe.
IT Lab is the leading Fortinet Silver partner in the UK with one of the most accredited set of security engineers and consultants. IT Lab currently has 3* FCNSP’s and 17 * FCNSA’s.
The FCNSP designation certifies that individuals have the expertise necessary for the installation and configuration of all FortiGate features and functionality. FCNSP's are able to configure multiple FortiGates taking advantage of features for large-scale environments such as HA and redundant VPNs. In addition to FortiGate devices Fortinet Certified Network Security Professionals have a good working knowledge of other Fortinet products such as FortiManager and FortiAnalyser.
The FCNSA designation certifies that individuals have the expertise necessary to manage the day-to-day operations of FortiGate devices in support of specific corporate policies. Individuals with the FCNSA designation have a solid understanding of the day-to-day configuration and monitoring of FortiGate devices as well as a general understanding of the entire Fortinet product family of services and hardware.
IT Lab prides themselves on answering 90% of Fortinet support calls in-house without the requirement to escalate to Fortinet European support. This means that customers receive a much quicker support response and speak to engineers who are at least FCNSA certified.
The IT Lab Security Operations Center (SOC) based in Birmingham, UK, is a secure environment which provides support 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year. IT Lab experts monitor the health, status, availability and security of managed Fortinet’s.
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