Fortinet earns third-party certification in Virus Bulletin web security testing

Fortinet was the only security vendor to publicly share their results in the industry’s first independent, third-party testing of security effectiveness for web filtering services, it said in a press statement.

Fortinet said hackers have been getting more organized and sophisticated, creating intricate networks of botnets and co-opting web-based advertising to serve malicious content to unsuspecting targets.

As a result, web filtering solutions are oftentimes the first layer of defense for corporate infrastructures; working ahead of antivirus software to block nefarious URLs, compensate for vulnerabilities in browser plugins, intercept spam, analyze content from phishing campaigns and protect unsuspecting users from subversive hyperlinks on a web page.

Fortinet said it became the first and only security vendor to publicly share their results in Virus Bulletin’s VBWeb comparative report, the industry’s first report that compares real-world performance of web filtering solutions. 

Details of the testing reveal that Fortinet’s web filtering services go beyond simply filtering HTTP traffic; running as a transparent proxy between corporate networks and malicious web servers. This enables Fortinet to identify and block incoming malware from threats like botnets and legitimate websites that have been compromised.  

The results of this testing highlight the effectiveness of just one of the many layers of advanced security features that comprises Fortinet’s integrated platform of independently tested and certified security solutions. 

FortiGuard Web Filtering service is just the latest solution to receive Virus Bulletin certification for security effectiveness. Fortinet’s FortiMail email security solutions has a perfect record of certification in every Virus Bulletin VBSpam test since its inception, earning a total of 40 SPAM or SPAM+ certifications between 2009 and today. Fortinet’s FortiClient endpoint protection has also consistently received dozens of VB100 antivirus certifications dating back to 2005, posting strong scores in proactive zero-day detection tests, and earning certification in all four VB100 tests in 2015. 

Protecting users and corporate resources against the rapidly evolving threat landscape requires an integrated security platform that’s backed by industry-leading threat research. FortiGuard Web Filtering services work in tandem with FortiClient endpoint security, FortiMail email protections, FortiGate enterprise firewall capabilities and Fortinet’s secure access solutions. All of which are updated with FortiGuard Lab’s leading threat intelligence in near real-time. Fortinet is the only vendor that offers an independently tested and certified platform of seamless, end-to-end protection for the enterprise. 

“Fortinet has a consistent and excellent testing record Virus Bulletin, so we were unsurprised when we saw their effectiveness in our new VBWeb comparative review. As the only vendor to submit their product to this industry-first public test, Fortinet clearly has a lot of confidence in their security solutions and proves the point with their continued dedication to testing with Virus Bulletin,” Martijn Grooten, editor of Virus Bulletin, said.