We’ve already locked down the external connections from your networks to the Internet and other outside networks with Fortigate, and we’ve already locked down your databases from exploitation and insured compliance with data handling, protection and reporting regulations with FortiDB. We’ve perhaps used FortiMail to provide you with a system for scanning emails for viruses, worms, and other undesirable content and quarantining suspect email. We have provided an appliance to automatically record information and prepare reports on network and security activity, and to conduct periodic network penetration analysis. We have wrapped all of this up in a single management console, FortiManager, for a single pane of glass for security management. There’s one more thing that we can do: protect the edge of your network by protecting PC’s from infection, exploitation or improper use.

FortiClient is an inexpensive software client that you can install on desktop and laptop PC’s and any handheld device with the SYMBIAN or Windows Mobile operating system. It provides the following services:

• IPS, with anti-hacking and exploitation protection
  
• Anti-virus, anti-worm and anti-spyware protection
  
• Personal firewall
  
• Address book protection
  
• Web content filtering
  
• IPSec VPN
  
• SMS filtering (mobile devices)
  
• Phone security (mobile devices)
  
• Call filter (mobile devices)

You manage and update these clients automatically with the same FortiManager appliance that you use to monitor and manage your FortiGate appliances, FortMail filter and FortiAnalyzer reporting and analysis tool.

Want to exert complete control over the use of your organization’s PC’s and protect them from networked threats even when they’re away from your networks and connected to other networks? Want to make sure that no one brings an infected PC back to your networks? Want to prohibit certain kinds of critical behavior, like the unauthorized copying of a database to a thumb drive?

For about what you pay for standard anti-virus protection you can also get these protections, and in so doing lock down even the edge of your networks. Click here to see a datasheet.

Let us know if you’d like a demonstration or more information. If you run databases you need to keep secure this is a surprisingly inexpensive and very necessary tool.