See How Fortinet Enables and Protects Microsoft Azure Customers

Fortinet will once again be in Chicago next month to attend Ignite, Microsoft's four-day conference. The event brings together developers, IT professionals, and business leaders from around the world to learn about Microsoft's latest products and innovations.

We have been attending Ignite for years and are happy to be there again as a trusted partner of Microsoft Azure customers. In fact, Fortinet has the distinct honor of being the first firewall vendor to offer a network virtual appliance (NVA) for Microsoft Azure customers.

Hot Topics at Ignite

Here are just a few of the hot topics at Ignite 2024 that we will be covering to help you secure and maximize your cloud deployments:

Azure Virtual WAN Security

With over 150 Azure integrations, Fortinet has protected Microsoft customers for over two decades, enabling businesses of all sizes to migrate to and grow in Azure confidently.

A year ago, Fortinet launched a network security solution in the Azure Marketplace that protects east-west and north-south traffic as it passes through Azure virtual wide area network (vWAN). This security is provided via FortiGate VM, a managed network virtual appliance (NVA). This offering supports multiple use cases, including a secure SD-WAN, SD-WAN with next-generation firewall (NGFW), and solely NGFW with Layer 4-7 inspection.

The integration of FortiGate VM with Secure SD-WAN and Azure vWAN allows users to more effectively interconnect with applications and workloads running in Azure with the rest of their hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. This results in an even simpler, more automated, and operationally efficient cloud on-ramp and SD-WAN experience. It also gives organizations the ability to apply NGFW policies to vWAN traffic. This latest vWAN update continues the Fortinet momentum of helping customers better secure their cloud with ease and consistent security.

New Extension

Recently, we released an extension of this offering to include internet-inbound traffic, Destination NAT. Fortinet is one of the few cybersecurity companies that provides this capability, allowing administrators to push applications to end-users on the internet via a public IP address assigned to the NVA. Thus, there is no direct exposure to the server's public IP or the application itself. Configuration is done on the NVA to filter traffic and control the application's access.

Azure vWAN customers can use NVA orchestration software to configure their NVA and vWAN infrastructure, specifically the front-end external load balancer, to forward and accept inbound traffic.