SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Bob Fortna, President of Fortinet Federal Inc.
“Achieving DoDIN APL certification for additional solutions within the Fortinet Security Fabric platform is important
for us because it demonstrates our commitment to stringent testing and validation guidelines specifically for the Department of
Defense. DoD agencies require the most comprehensive cybersecurity solutions available to scale for their complex and mission
critical requirements, while maintaining high-performance.”
Manish Chadha, President and CEO, Federal Defense Solutions
“Fortinet serves both classified and unclassified federal systems and is used by all 15 cabinet-level agencies and numerous
independent agencies. Gaining DoDIN certification provides authorized sales channels into DoD agencies including the Army, Navy,
Marines, Air Force and more, serving up more opportunities for us based on Fortinet's Security Fabric solutions that have passed
vigorous DoD compliance testing.”
News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity
solutions, today announced that over 50 additional Fortinet Security Fabric solutions have achieved Department of Defense Information Network
(DoDIN) Approved Products List (APL) certification.
- The certification qualifies designated Fortinet products for sale to Department of Defense (DoD) agencies
based on stringent Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) testing, a standardized methodology for the secure installation
and maintenance of computer software and hardware.
- The addition of these products to the APL means that the DoD can choose from a wider range of Fortinet’s industry-leading
Security Fabric solutions when seeking new technology to address its unique and demanding
cybersecurity needs.
Fortinet’s U.S. Federal Agency security solution is ideally suited to protect agencies
within the intelligence community and the Department of Defense, as well as civilian agencies. The Fortinet Security Fabric
protects classified and unclassified Federal systems used by all of the 15 cabinet-level agencies and by numerous independent
executive agencies. These platforms make use of our USG products that are specially configured for the Federal
market. They comply with Federal certification requirements including the National Institute of Standards and
Technology FIPS 140-2 certification, National Information Assurance Partnership Common Criteria certification,
and the Commercial Solutions for Classified certification.
Fortinet products that have received DoDIN APL certification include the following: FortiGate Firewalls, (30D, 30D-POE,
50E, 51E, 52E, 60D, 60E, 60E-POE, 61E, 80D, 80E, 81E, 81E-POE, 90D, 90D-POE, 92D, 92D-POE, 100D, 100E, 100EF, 101E, 200D, 200E,
201E, 240D, 240D-POE, 300D, 400D, 500D, 600D, 800D, 900D, 1000D, 1200D, 1500D, 2000E, 2500E, 3000D, 3100D, 3200D, 3700D, 3810D,
3815D, 5001D), FortiGate-VM, FortiGate Rugged (60D, 90D), and FortiWifi (30D, 50E, 51E, 60D, 60E, 61E, 90D, 90D-POE)
To achieve DoDIN APL certification, all approved Fortinet products were tested against applicable Security Technical
Implementation Guides (STIGs) and Security Requirements Guides (SRGs). This includes the following: Unified Capabilities
Requirements 2013 (UCR 2013) Change 2, Application Layer Gateway (ALG) SRG v1r2, Firewall STIG v8r25, Intrusion Detection and
Prevention Systems (IDPS) SRG v2r3, IPSec VPN Gateway STIG v1r15, Network Device Management SRG v2r13, Network Infrastructure
Policy STIG v9r5, Remote Access VPN v2r7, Web Server SRG v2r2.
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