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Alex Vizzari, a product manager at Fortinet, introduces the unified management, visibility, and control offered by the upcoming FortiManagement Cloud platform. This new product represents the convergence of Fortinet’s various cloud offerings, bringing the flagship FortiGate firewall into a single pane of glass alongside access points, switches, and WAN gateways. Designed to scale from small shops to large service providers, the platform allows users to register, pre-populate, and push configurations to devices globally. It simplifies complex tasks like SD-WAN deployment through a graphical drag-and-drop overlay service and facilitates seamless hardware migrations, allowing administrators to transition settings from old devices to new ones with just a few clicks.
The platform provides deep operational insights through customizable dashboards and widgets that monitor security status, radio health, and station connectivity. Beyond management, it integrates advanced security features such as indicator of compromise (IoC) detection, automated quarantining, and cloud-based sandboxing for deep file scanning. For distributed environments, the One Gateway solution offers unique out-of-band management capabilities, including support for up to 16 USB console connections to reach onsite equipment even during connectivity loss. Deployment is further streamlined through zero-touch provisioning, where devices automatically inherit tags, scripts, and firmware profiles upon registration.
FortiManagement Cloud also emphasizes advanced analytics and multi-tenancy, providing detailed logs on application usage, traffic destinations, and potential threats. Administrators can generate comprehensive PDF reports for stakeholders and set up event handlers to trigger alerts or webhooks based on specific network triggers. Addressing the role of artificial intelligence, Vizzari confirms that the sophisticated features currently found in FortiAIOps will be integrated directly into this unified cloud UI. This ensures feature parity between on-premises and cloud models, allowing customers to move between deployment types without losing the high-level automation and insights that define the Fortinet ecosystem.
Personnel: Alex Vizzari
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