Web Application and API Protection FortiWeb is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects web applications and APIs from attacks that target known and unknown exploits and helps maintain compliance with regulations. Using machine learning to model each application, FortiWeb defends applications from known vulnerabilities and from zero-day threats. High performance physical, virtual appliances, and containers deploy on-site or in the public cloud to serve any size of the organization—from small businesses to service providers, carriers, and large enterprises.

Highlights Comprehensive Web Application Security Using an advanced multi-layered and correlated approach, FortiWeb provides complete security for your web-based applications from the OWASP Top 10 and many other threats. FortiWeb’s first layer of defense uses traditional WAF detection engines (e.g. attack signatures, IP address reputation, protocol validation, and more) to identify and block malicious traffic, powered by intelligence from Fortinet’s industry leading security research from FortiGuard Labs. FortiWeb’s machine learning detection engine then examines traffic that passes this first layer, using a continuously updated model of your application to identify malicious anomalies and block them as well. API Discovery and Protection Fueling the digital transformation APIs have become increasingly popular, providing the backbone for mobile applications, automated business to business operations and ease of management across applications. However, with their popularity they also increase the attack surface with additional exposed application surfaces that organizations must secure. Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall provides the right tools to address threats to APIs. FortiWeb API Discovery and Protection uses machine learning algorithms to automatically discover APIs by continuously evaluating application traffic. Discovery is an integral role for establishing a positive security model and FortiWeb protects your critical APIs based on your profiled API inventory. FortiWeb can also integrate out of the box policies together with an automatically generated positive security model policy that is based on your organization’s schema specification (OpenAPI, XML and generic JSON are supported schemas) to protect against API exploits. FortiWeb schema validation can be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, automatically generating an updated positive security model policy once the API is updated. Bot Mitigation FortiWeb protects against automated bots, webs scrapers, crawlers, data harvesting, credential stuffing and other automated attacks to protect your web assets, mobile APIs, applications, users and sensitive data. Combining machine learning with policies such as threshold based detection, Bot deception and Biometrics based detection with superior good bot identification FortiWeb is able to block malicious bot attacks while reducing friction on legitimate users. With advanced tracking techniques FortiWeb can differentiate between humans, automated requests and repeat offenders, track behavior over time to better identify humans from bots and enforce CAPTCHA challenges when required. Together with FortiView, FortiWeb’s graphical analysis dashboard organizations can quickly identify attacks and differentiate from good bots and legitimate users.