Fortinet® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - has announced a new FortiGate® multi-threat security appliance designed to meet high-end requirements of the mid-enterprise customer segment. The new FortiGate-1240B appliance offers best-in-class 40 Gbps firewall and 16 Gbps IPSec VPN throughputs, which represent a 400- and 800-percent performance advantage, respectively, over the nearest competitor*. The FortiGate-1240B platform continues the technology excellence formula introduced on the other two members of Fortinet's mid-enterprise family - the FortiGate-310B and FortiGate-620B - by also providing the highest port density and best price/performance ratio among products in its class. The three products make up Fortinet's complete range of multi-threat security appliances for the mid-enterprise

The FortiGate-1240B appliance offers the following leadership metrics when compared with other multi-threat security appliances in its class:
* Highest firewall/IPSec performance with 40 Gbps and 16 Gbps performance, respectively;
* Highest Gigabit Ethernet port density at 40 GbE ports, 38 of which are ASIC-accelerated; closest competitor offers 10 total ports;
* Firewall inspection of up to 2 million concurrent sessions, nearly doubling that of competitors;
* Six storage module slots enabling up to 384 gigabytes of storage, more than doubling storage capacity of competitive products; ideal for new services included in FortiOS 4.0 such as WAN optimization or storing reporting data for compliance purposes.

With enhancements to FortiOS 4.0, FortiGate-1240B customers will also see the following new functionalities:
* IPv6 support: Adds support for antivirus scanning and URL filtering of IPv6 traffic. Many security vendors are still lagging in supporting the new IP protocol, which is being adopted first by the federal segment in the U.S., the carrier segment globally, as well as for core networking in Japan.
* Log Optimization/Reduction: Log optimization reduces the amount of information generated by up to 50 percent, effectively reducing by half the amount of information transmitted across the network, as well as the amount required to be stored and maintained for security analysis and assisting with policy compliance.
* Endpoint Network Access Control (NAC): As part of the FortiGuard® subscription service, a FortiGate platform can monitor the applications being installed on FortiClient-managed endpoints. FortiGate can block access to users that run or install violating applications, ensuring policy compliance against unauthorized applications.
* Improvements in Data Loss Prevention: Improved ability to detect data loss where international character sets are used

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