Fortinet Accelerate 2023 China Tour
The annual network security event Fortinet Accelerate 2023 China Tour kicked off in Shenzhen yesterday, opening the "first city stop" of the 15-city tour. The theme of this year's tour exhibition is "Security Achieves the Future". Fortinet, China Enterprise Communications, Amazon Cloud Technology and other ecological partners, as well as hundreds of representative customers from various industries such as manufacturing, finance, and logistics, gathered together to discuss the top-level architecture of network security, network security integration, Hot topics such as APT defense, OT security, and cloud security were discussed in depth, and application cases in typical scenarios were shared.
Consolidate the top-level structure and implement network security integration
Yang Xiaoyan, Channel Director of Fortinet China
Yang Xiaoyan, Channel Director of Fortinet China, said in her speech that in the past, "network" may account for more than 70% of network and security, and "security" is even dispensable for many companies. But in the current era of the "secure web," "security" is moving toward dominance. As the edge is everywhere and threats are everywhere, Fortinet, as a global network security leader, accelerates network security integration, promotes intelligent collaboration, and builds a grid security system to make security everywhere.
Threats such as ransomware affect business productivity and reputation, and network security has become a special concern of business management. Multi-cloud, edge computing, hybrid office, etc. also make enterprises face an unprecedented complex situation. The connotation and extension of network security are not what they used to be. If you want to protect and fully cover enterprises, such a system is doomed to a high degree of complexity. At the same time, it is challenging to take into account customer needs such as ease of use and low cost.
Lue Zhang, Technical Director of Fortinet China
"This requires the integration of different technologies, products, platforms, and solutions, and it must be done under a systematic top-level design to create a solution that combines linkage, collaboration, interaction, and ease of use." Fortinet Zhang Lue, technical director of China, further said, "For Fortinet, this top-level architecture is the Fortinet Security Fabric security platform, which realizes the foundation of an end-to-end comprehensive, collaborative and intelligent network security system. "
Tan Jie, Chief Technical Advisor of Fortinet North Asia
The key to reducing complexity, threat awareness, visibility, and control lies in "network security integration." This concept has been adhered to by Fortinet for many years, and it is also the development trend of the current industry. Tan Jie, Chief Technical Advisor of Fortinet North Asia, said, "Integrating security methods into every link in the network, so that every link has a native security mechanism" is true security, and it is also the starting point of AI-driven security. Network security convergence includes two key points, namely "convergence" and "integration". Integration lies in the integration of a unified OS, Agent, management analysis, and threat intelligence on a single platform, and integration lies in the security integration into each node of the network.
Li Zhaohui, Senior Security Consultant of Fortinet South China Region
APT is a typical application scenario for "testing" this fusion capability. The biggest characteristics of APT are strong concealment, long latency, wide attack surface, and great destructiveness. "Comprehensive defense" is the only true chapter to deal with APT. Li Zhaohui, a senior security consultant in Fortinet South China, said that Fortinet has its own "magic" to deal with "monsters" like APT. Just as the "Eighteen Arhats Formation" exerts both individual strengths and group strength, so does the "Comprehensive Defense" formation. Under the "big array" of Fabric, dozens of Fortinet products can be organically "connected" together to achieve mutual security coordination and make threats nowhere to hide. Realize applications such as "EDR finds terminal abnormalities, and can cooperate with switches, APs, and firewalls to isolate abnormal terminals and block attack sources". " Connection" and "automatic response" are two of the key technologies.
Zhang Zhaoxuan, Information Security Product Manager of China Enterprise Communications
Aiming at the current problems such as insufficient defense of enterprises and poor response after the event, Zhang Zhaoxuan, information security product manager of China Enterprise Communications, proposed that the next-generation network security capabilities should form a life-cycle management model, from risk discovery and identification to planning, construction, and daily Operation and maintenance, monitoring, and event summary form a closed loop to continuously improve the protection level of enterprise information security. At the same time, enterprise network security practices should move from passive response to active security governance, to achieve "unified security baseline and authority", "unified risk level division", "unified log format and interface" and "to have an overall view of the enterprise security situation". display and regular analysis" four objectives.
Five professional capabilities to protect OT security
Yu Wenfeng, Technical Director of Fortinet South China Region
Yu Wenfeng, technical director of Fortinet South China Region, shared Fortinet OT security solutions after analyzing three OT security pain points, including "OT security model selection", "OT device monitoring and management", and "OT security situational awareness". The solution has five OT professional capabilities, including SAA secure access architecture, FortiNAC for continuous IoT monitoring, OT security situational awareness platform, active security, and SD-WAN multi-scenario secure interconnection. Among them, the SAA security architecture's professional ability of "cross-model, micro-segmentation architecture from layer 0 to layer 5" is unique in the industry.
Focus on user needs Three-party service cloud security
Yu Keli, Senior Security Consultant of Fortinet South China Region
Architecture and application security in a multi-cloud environment is one of the important issues in the current Internet security field. Yu Keli, a senior security consultant in Fortinet South China, said that whether it is the active reason of the enterprise itself to pursue security, or the passive reason required by laws and regulations such as guarantees, security on the cloud is essential. The potential meaning of the current cloud security has been separated from the part of the architecture security that the underlying cloud platform is responsible for, and mainly refers to the third-party security above the platform provider. Multi-cloud distributed applications and access security, file isolation, and API security protection all fall into this category. And it is this part of security that users need to pay attention to, which needs to be solved jointly by users and third-party security service providers on cloud platforms such as Fortinet. Whether it is a hybrid cloud, public cloud, or SaaS cloud environment, Fortinet can integrate protection through an integrated cloud-network security solution.
Wu Jinfu, Solution Architect Team Manager of Amazon Cloud Technology South Region
Regarding cloud security, Wu Jinfu, manager of the solution architect team in Amazon Cloud Technology South Region, is deeply touched, "More and more customers pay more attention to security. In the past, for high performance, the security was less than tolerable, or the cost performance was very high, but the security was less. It doesn't matter, if the security is not in place now, there may be no users at all. I believe that one of the reasons for Fortinet's popularity lies in its good cloud security. Amazon Cloud Technology has always regarded security as the top priority, and respected in the field of cloud security' shared responsibility' model. "
A grand start to welcome both stations
The first stop of Fortinet Accelerate 2023 China Tour - Shenzhen Station, while deeply analyzing the general trend of network security, accurately grasping trends such as network security integration, OT security, and cloud security, is also leading the industry's security development and achieving the future .
On May 11th, Fortinet Accelerate 2023 China Tour will come to Dongguan and Chengdu, and both stations will be launched on the same day! Ecological partners and users from various industries are welcome to come and gather together to discuss the general trend of cybersecurity!