Security To Share Spotlight

Fortinet, Santa Clara, Calif., will roll out two additions to its FortiGate series of ASIC-based antivirus firewall systems. The FortiGate 60 targets small businesses and branch offices with 70-Mbps firewall throughput and 20-Mbps 3DES VPN encryption for $995, said James Liu, director of product management.

The device provides integrated managed switching with four internal ports so a business doesn't have to buy an external switch, he said. It also has two redundant WAN connection ports for failover and two USB ports.

Tailored for large enterprises, the FortiGate 1000 provides up to 1 Gbit of firewall throughput and 250 Mbps of 3DES VPN encryption for $12,995.

Both new products scan for viruses at the gateway and have intrusion-protection capabilities.

Kirk Hanratty, CTO of SynerComm, a Brookfield, Wis.-based solution provider, said Fortinet provides a cost-effective integrated solution for small businesses or enterprise branch offices. "The combination of a firewall with antivirus gives them nice defense in depth," he said.

On the Web services security front, Forum Systems plans to unveil the second generation of its XML security appliance, Forum Sentry 1500 V2.0, which adds support for the WS-Security specification and features proprietary dynamic content security parsing technology, said Wes Swenson, president and CEO of Forum Systems, Salt Lake City. Pricing for the device starts at $35,000.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Resilience, meanwhile, is teaming with Secos, Irvine, Calif., to introduce an appliance that integrates intrusion-detection and prevention technology with Next Generation firewall software from Check Point Software Technologies.