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Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers:

• Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to the Node.js websocket module.
• A January 15, 2025, dark web post from a threat actor who looks to have published IPs, passwords, and configuration data from 15,000 FortiGate firewalls. The data leaked online appears to be several years old (2022). Rapid7 has not attributed any CVEs to the leaked data at this time.

Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel has announced that it will be enhancing its suite of quantum-safe offerings to help enterprises fortify their defenses against cyber threats and scale more securely in the quantum age.

With almost one in every two firewalls being a Fortinet product, the company knows what the bad guys are up to, and has a serious mission to keep them out.

COMPANY NEWS: Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, has appointed Nicole Quinn to the newly-created role of head of government relations – APAC

Communications technology group Singtel has signed three Memoranda of Understanding with Cisco, Fortinet, and Nokia, to provide quantum security solutions to enterprises through its Quantum Safe Network (QSN).

Australian tech company Wavelink recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, but that longevity hasn’t come without change. CEO Ilan Rubin explains how the business has pivoted, and how it is catapulting to new levels that will see it easily hit the next 25 years.

iTWireTV interview: iTWireTV speaks with Fortinet VP of sales India, South-East Asia, ANZ Vishak Raman about the challenges of cybersecurity, and how Fortinet is protecting enterprises, businesses, and individuals as well as "eating its own dog food" to protect itself.

Intelligence company Recorded Future has released its March 2023 vulnerabilities summary which identifies five newly disclosed vulnerabilities with high risk scores, four of which are zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft, Adobe, Fortinet and Samsung.

Global cybersecurity company Fortinet is updating and expanding its flagship Network Security Expert (NSE) certification program in a move designed to further help advance cybersecurity skill sets and address the talent shortage.

Security firm Fortinet has announced the expansion of its Security Fabric with new and enhanced products and capabilities designed to enable advanced threat prevention and coordinated response for a self-defending ecosystem across networks, endpoints, and clouds.

An estimated 3.4 million professionals are needed to fill the growing global cybersecurity workforce gap, according to security firm Fortinet’s latest report on the global security landscape.

Network and security product provider Fortinet has announced the launch of the Cybercrime Atlas, a joint initiative between it, Microsoft, PayPal, and Banco Santander to aid industry, law enforcement, and government agencies by providing a first-of-its-kind visibility to help take down cybercriminals and their infrastructure around the world.

Worldwide network security market maintained its ongoing rebound from the 2020 pandemic-induced recession with the eighth consecutive quarter of stronger revenue growth and the sixth quarter of double-digit revenue growth, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Western Australian integrated IT infrastructure and consulting company, CMTG, has announced a new managed detection and response service, powered by Fortinet FortiEDR.

The University of Tasmania has partnered with security firm Fortinet by joining the Fortinet Academic Partner Program, aimed at building a diverse, skilled workforce to help close the cybersecurity skills gap.

An authentication bypass flaw in security firm Fortinet's products, which was patched on 6 October, is being exploited in the wild, the company has confirmed.

IT integration and network technologies company NEC and multinational corporation Fortinet have partnered to build secure 5G networks for communication service providers.

Ransomware variants almost doubled—from 5,400 in the previous six-month period to a total of 10,666—recording a 100% growth in half a year, according to Fortinet’s semi-annual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report.

COMPANY NEWS:  New FortiGate 4800F series of hyperscale firewalls enables enterprises and mobile network operators to concurrently run more applications while reducing their physical footprint and more effectively securing their networks.

John Maddison, EVP of products and CMO, Fortinet, said, “No other firewall is better suited to support hyperscale and 5G. Not only is FortiGate 4800F the industry’s fastest compact hyperscale firewall, with 2.4 Tbps of capacity, but it is also the only 4RU firewall on the market that includes 400GE, 200GE, and 50GE ports, which allows hyperscale customers and mobile network operators to seamlessly scale their business without disrupting operations. The combination of performance and scalability packed into our latest firewall will help future-proof organisations’ investments in hyperscale data centres, especially with the rise of 5G and as the volume and velocity of data continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace.”

News summary

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced the FortiGate 4800F series of hyperscale firewalls, which sets new standards for security, scale, performance, and innovation to meet the requirements of hyperscale customers and 5G mobile network operators (MNOs). Powered by 16 of Fortinet’s seventh generation network processors (NP7), FortiGate 4800F  offers the highest performance figures of any compact firewall, with Security Compute Ratings that deliver up to 34x better performance than competitor solutions, including the ability to support an average of 19x more connections per second.

Large enterprises and MNOs are in the continual pursuit of doing more with less. When it comes to firewalls, higher performance in a smaller footprint means security becomes an enabler for 5G adoption, allowing mobile providers to deliver new use cases for enterprises and critical industries and infrastructure. It also ensures enterprise customers such as high-velocity e-retail, cutting-edge research facilities, financial institutions, and cloud providers have access to the performance, scalability, and security they need to meet escalating business needs. Reduced costs for space, cooling, and power are additional benefits to achieving higher performance in a smaller form factor.

With these outcomes in mind, Fortinet’s dedication to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in security performance has yielded the most powerful compact firewall yet: the FortiGate 4800F. With a 4RU firewall and 400GE, 200GE, and 50GE interfaces, this latest model of Fortinet’s flagship line of firewalls enables MNOs to secure 5G networks with the following capabilities:

• Accelerates 5G adoption with secure IP connectivity and support for 19x more connections per second: 5G enables massive machine-to-machine communications that require secure IP connectivity to untrusted environments such as the internet, edge sites, and the cloud. The FortiGate 4800F enables MNOs to secure massive scale and performance for IP connectivity to external networks and domains with massive carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT) performance and hardware logging. To build capacity that meets the needs of today and the future, FortiGate 4800F supports 25 million connections per second to give MNOs the capacity they need to handle surges in traffic and large sustained loads of subscriber connections. Enterprises with ultra-performance needs can converge multiple firewalls into a single unified system, host on-premises applications, and deliver the required user experience.
• Secures 5G radio access network (RAN) traffic and core connectivity with 19x faster IPsec VPN performance: With the increased scale of 5G radio and the sharing of RAN between operators to reduce costs, the FortiGate 4800F provides a cost-effective security gateway (SecGW or SEG) to handle 5G’s RAN scalability and security requirements for both user and control planes.

FortiGate 4800F also delivers hyperscale security for hyperscale data centres with the following capabilities:

• Enables 400G ultra-fast data centre interconnect: With 400GE ports in a compact 4RU form factor, FortiGate 4800F enables organisations to connect and replicate data securely with ultra-fast elephant flows, while ensuring privacy and confidentiality to guarantee that all data and services are delivered close to the customers and partners. Enterprises with ultra-performance needs can converge multiple firewalls into a single unified system, host on-premises applications, and deliver the required user experience. In  April 2021 Fortinet became the first vendor to deliver 400GE ports on a hyperscale firewall via FortiGate 7121F, followed by the FortiGate 3700F in May 2022.  FortiGate 4800F continues Fortinet’s legacy as the only vendor delivering 400GE interfaces on a hyperscale firewall to support the most intensive hyperscale use cases.

• Removes blind spots with 6x faster SSL inspection: With as much as 95 per cent of today’s traffic being encrypted, SSL-inspection has become critical to properly secure the network. While encrypted paths are meant to make traffic more secure, they also let bad actors hide malicious activity. To allow all encrypted traffic to be inspected while keeping up with the speed of today’s networks, FortiGate 4800F offers the industry’s highest SSL-inspection performance as well as support for the industry’s latest TLS 1.3 standard. This also ensures network blind spots are eliminated by enabling full visibility of clear-text and encrypted network flows.
• Secures hybrid IT architectures with VXLAN segmentation: Digital acceleration is only possible with hybrid IT architectures that seamlessly connect and secure on-prem and cloud assets. The FortiGate 4800F enables massively scalable hardware-accelerated virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) segmentation and allows super-fast communication between enormously scaled services, such as compute, storage, and applications that are co-hosted on physical and virtual platforms.

The entire FortiGate suite of next-generation and hyperscale firewalls supports organisations of all sizes with the following features:

• High-performance security at scale:  FortiGuard AI-powered security services deliver innovative real-time protection for known, zero-day and unknown threats, including IPS, DNS, AV, and inline sandbox, for data centre edge and core deployments leveraging segmentation and more granular device (OT/IoT) as well as web and application security capabilities for comprehensive perimeter protection.
• Supports zero trust architectures with integrated universal ZTNA: FortiGate natively integrates universal zero trust network access (ZTNA) enforcement to support zero trust architectures. Setting up universal ZTNA with an on-prem or virtual FortiGate ensures that consistent policies and controls span across all operating environments, including across multiple clouds.

About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organisations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data centre to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 580,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at, the Fortinet blog or FortGuard Labs

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has recorded strong revenue and billings growth for the three months to the end of June 2022.