Fortinet enhances its cloud security offering

Fortinet has announced that it will provide support for secure access to the cloud platformMicrosoft Azure . This notice meets the needs of organizations migrating their mission critical applications to the cloud and securing access to sensitive data, as well as give the importance due to the workload of the application.

From now on, customers can benefit immediately from a safe access to a virtual private network (VPN) to the Microsoft Azure cloud while different technologies Fortinet's multi-layered security at the network, application and content security.

"The scalability, performance and economic benefits of the Microsoft Azure cloud is an appropriate option for those customers who want to leverage the cloud while keeping your current on-premise infrastructure , "said Venkat Gattamneni, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft.

" These customer s require secure VPN access from any office networks and branch to the cloud platforms and next-generation firewall Fortinet carry data centers on-premise to the cloud safely. "

All FortiGate security devices offer full support for VPN access to virtual network services Microsoft Azure, enabling organizations to create VPN tunnels insurance quickly and easilyconnecting to networks on-premise and cloud environments. In addition, the FortiGate appliances provide centralized management of physical and virtualized infrastructure through a single pane of management.

"When working with clients in bringing infrastructure on-premises to the cloud using Microsoft Azure, we need to offer the highest level of security high on both and access to data across multiple environments , "said Michael Xie, founder, president and CTO of Fortinet.

" Fortinet is the only company able to prevent threats to networks, email, and web content in any combination of cloud and virtualized network environment. "