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Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 8



Cloud Field Day 8

Ming Chiou presented at Cloud Field Day 8

This Presentation date is July 16, 2020 at 13:00-16:30.

Presenters: Ali Bidabadi, Brian Schwarz, Lior Cohen, Ming Chiou, Philip Qian, Praveen Lokesh
Delegate Panel: Adam Post, Al Rasheed, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Chris Williams, Erik Ableson, Gina Rosenthal, Josh Fidel, Karen Lopez, Keith Townsend, Nate Avery, Paul Woodward, Ray Lucchesi


Fortinet Dynamic Cloud Security Overview


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In this session, Lior Cohen, Sr. Director, Cloud and SP Security, gives a high-level overview of the Fortinet Dynamic Cloud Security Strategy and Solutions outlining the importance of a multi-tier approach spanning multiple clouds, network security, application security and platform security as well as outlining Fortinet’s Unique offering.

As digital innovation and cloud adoption extends the digital attack surface, the Fortinet security fabric provides a flexible model for zero trust network access, security-driven networking, dynamic cloud security, ai-driven security operations, and overall management. Fortinet provides network security, application security, and platform security for any cloud that follows applications and data.

Personnel: Lior Cohen

Fortinet Cloud Security Reference Architecture Overview


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In this session, Ali Bidabadi, Director of Cloud Architecture, gives an overview of Fortinet cloud security reference architectures and how they can be leveraged to build a resilient and scalable deployment in a multi-cloud environment. He will discuss various deployment models and design patterns in AWS, Azure, and GCP as well as some of the design considerations and best practices to secure Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment.

The Fortinet Cloud Solution Architecture Team designs solutions for multi-cloud deployment in the enterprise. Examples include FortiGate VM active/passive HA in public cloud, a cloud security services hub with autoscaling and AWS transit gateway, Azure virtual WAN architecture, secure segmentation and highly available web application protection, and multi-region teleworker architecture in GCP. The discussion then turns to Calico, which Fortinet uses to provide best of breed container and Kubernetes security. It enables fine-grained access control to any external endpoint and is integrated with FortiGate. Fortinet can also provide telemetry to FortiSIEM or other SIEM solutions from Kubernetes.

Personnel: Ali Bidabadi

Fortinet Dynamic Cloud Security and Network Security Use Cases


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In this session, Vinod Sundarraj, Sr. Director, Cloud Security and MSSP Marketing, presents an overview of Fortinet network security capabilities and key use cases. Customers need cloud network security and Fortinet provides secure SD-WAN for the cloud with Cloud OnRamp, multi-cloud SD-WAN, remote access from the cloud, multi-cloud VPC to VPC segmentation, and cloud intrusion detection.

Personnel: Vinod Sundarraj

Secure Cloud Networking with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN for Multi-Cloud


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In this session, Praveen Lokesh, Solution Architect, will give a demo of the solution that simplifies connectivity and security between workloads on multiple IaaS clouds (Public/Private) using Fortinet SDN Fabric Connector and FortiGate-VM Secure SD-WAN capabilities. The demo will also feature how the FortiGates in different locations can be managed by a centralized FortiManager and also log to a centralized FortiAnalyzer.

Personnel: Praveen Lokesh

Defending APIs Using Fortinet FortiWeb Web Cloud


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Web applications today increasingly expose APIs to the Internet, and those APIs need to be defended. In this session, Brian Schwarz and Ming Chiou will provide an overview of FortiWeb Cloud, Fortinet’s WAF-as-a-Service offering, and will demonstrate configuring API protection, including validating API Enforcing access controls based on an OpenAPI definition file using the included API Gateway to manage API users, verify API keys, control API access, and rate limits calls.

Personnel: Brian Schwarz, Ming Chiou

Fortinet Cloud Workload Protection Introduction and Demonstration


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In this session, Philip Qian gives a high-level overview of the FortiCWP solution that provides visibility, security and compliance control for your cloud workloads. Ming Chiou gives a demonstration of two use cases – detecting your public readable S3 bucket and sensitive information exposed in those buckets.

Personnel: Ming Chiou, Philip Qian


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