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Web Application Security

Stop Web-Based Application Threats

A web application used to be any application that uses a web browser as a client. Application simple as a message board or a guest sign-in book on a website, or as complex as a word processor or a spreadsheet through a web browser are typically known as web application. Web technology continues to evolve and native applications are more integrated with the Internet then ever before. Web application is no longer restricted by the web browser and it has become standalone application or even operation system that that fully integrates with internet.

Layered Threat Protection

Fortinet's Web Application Security solutions provide specialized, layered application threat protection for medium and large enterprises, application service providers, and SaaS providers. FortiWeb web application firewall protects your web-based applications and internet-facing data. Automated protection and layered security protects web applications from sophisticated attacks such as SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting attacks and data loss. Web Vulnerability Assessment module adds scanning capabilities to provide a comprehensive solution to meet your PCI DSS section 6.6 requirements.

Intelligent Load Balancing

The solution drastically reduces the time required to protect your regulated internet-facing data and leverages an intelligent, application-aware load-balancing engine to distribute traffic and route content across multiple web servers. This load balancing increases application performance, improves resource utilization and application stability while reducing server response times. Data compression and Independent SSL encryption processor increase transaction throughput and reduce processing requirements from web servers, providing additional acceleration for web application traffic.

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We handle a lot of very confidential and time sensitive data for which security is absolutely essential. So, when we decided to move our existing services and systems online for more efficiency, we had to ensure that not only our data would be protected but also that our network would maintain its high performance, delivery throughput and high availability. Fortinet's FortiGate-800 systems provided the performance, flexibility and security we were looking for. Combined with other networked solutions deployed by DPS, we felt that it was the most effective solution for us.

Bob Thomson
Senior Manager, IT Projects
UAE Central Bank