FortiMail: Secure Email Gateway

Email security remains a key productivity tool for today's organizations, as well as a successful attack vector for cyber criminals.  According to the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, 49% of malware was installed via malicious email.  Gartner asserts that "Advanced threats (such as ransomware and business email compromise) are easily the signature-based and reputation-based prevention mechanisms that a secure email gateway (SEG) has traditionally used."

FortiMail Email security utilizes the latest technologies and security services from FortiGuard Labs to deliver consistently top-rated protection from common and advanced threats while integrating robust data protection capabilities to avoid data loss. 

FortiMail Product Details

Organizations typically select FortiMail email security to shield users, and ultimately data, from a wide range of cyber threats. These include: ever growing volumes of unwanted spam, socially-engineered phishing and business email compromise, accelerating variants of ransomware and other malware, increasingly targeted attacks from adversaries of all kinds, and more. At the same time, FortiMail can be used to protect sensitive data of all types, reducing the risk of inadvertent loss and/or non-compliance with regulations like HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, and more.

FortiMail can be deployed on premise as physical or virtual appliances as well as in the cloud; either public cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services, or hosted by Fortinet in our datacenters as a SaaS offering. This ensures that, large or small, FortiMail can fit seamlessly in to your exact on-premise or cloud environment.

Customers Weigh in on the Value of FortiMail Secure Email Gateway (SEG) in Gartner Peer Insights Review

There are many reasons to reconsider your current SEG solution including: a move to cloud email systems like Microsoft Office 365 or Google G-Suite, concern about advanced threats getting through current controls, consolidation of email security components − like antispam, DLP and email encryption − that were added over time and more. 

One reason that organizations are increasingly selecting Fortinet FortiMail is its consistently top-rated effectiveness against traditional and advanced threats.  The improved protection is readily apparent in 3rd party testing and customer PoCs.  Another is success customers have had with our flagship FortiGate and its FortiGuard security services, the same services powering FortiMail.  And a third is the positive experience that others in the industry have had and passed along. 

To see what recent customers have to say about the most independently tested SEG in the industry, check out our reviews on Gartner Peer Insights.  Here are just a handful of recent headline comments.

“Management Is Easy, Artificial Intelligence Analysis Is Good”

System Specialist, Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

“Management is easy, compared with other products. There are serious differences in analysis. Thanks to its artificial intelligence, it makes a more accurate analysis than its competitors.”

“Fantastic Support, Great Feature Set, Online Documentation Could Be Better”

IT Services Manager, Education, <5,000 Employees

“We were receiving high numbers of unwanted email through O365 and even after applying filtering rules was unable to quarantine or block SPAM and phishing attempts. Since the implementation of FortiMail we not only have much more visibility of organisation email, unwanted, high-risk emails are now being filtered.”

“Reliable and Functional, Good Price Range”

Deputy Head of Department, $50M - $250M Finance Company

“I first got acquainted with the solutions of this vendor last year as part of the project to implement the protection of mail gateways of my organization. Several solutions were considered, but the choice was made in favor of this vendor. The main factors are functionality, the highest compliance with the technical specifications, a high level of support during testing.”

“Perfect Solution”

Head of Information Security Department, $500M - $1B Manufacturing Company

“It's working good. Nearly 2000 e-mails blocked per day. A simple solution in management and configuration.”

“Strong Security, Easy Control and Operation”

Operations Engineer, $500M-1B Communications Company

“The FortiMail is a device that performs very good security controls, validates the integrity of the email, identity of the sender and the recipient, validates that the domains are authentic, performs scanning of the attachments in search of a malicious file, performs validations of the body of the mail and above all has very good features of number of emails which makes it a robust device. "

_{Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.}

Related Links

1. How to Integrate FortiMail into Office 365
2. Email Security Solution
3. Advanced Threat Protection Solution
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SE Labs Email Security Services Test

Email remains arguably the most common delivery vehicle for malware (92.4% of all malware according to the 2018 Verizon DBIR), social engineering attacks like business email compromise (30,787 incidents reported by the FBI in July 2018) and more. SE Labs tested email security services from Fortinet, Proofpoint, Microsoft and others. FortiMail earned their top AAA rating.

• Test Report

ICSA Certified for Advanced Threat Defense

With data breaches continuing to make headlines, new product and solutions designed to detect and prevent the advanced attacks often at the root of these breaches have emerged. To help organizations assess the effectiveness of these new offerings, ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon (author or the annual Data Breach Investigations Report or DBIR), recently introduced a new independent, Advanced Threat Defense certification, and Email certification.

• Email Certification
  

Virus Bulletin Antispam Testing

For more than seven years, VBSpam has been conducting continual independent comparisons of antispam solutions. Fortinet FortiMail has participated in roughly 40 VBSpam tests, including six in 2015, so that organizations can see the level of effectiveness they can expect in real-world environments. FortiMail has routinely earned the highest VBSpam+ rating, with results similar to the test excerpt here.

• Virus Bulletin Antispam Test

NSS Labs Breach Prevention Systems (BPS) Test 2017

NSS Labs introduced a new group test, BPS focused on detecting and blocking exploits, advanced malware, and evasions. This helps validate the advanced threat response cycle of prevent-detect-mitigate across a number of threat vectors including web, email, and endpoint. Fortinet's Security Fabric consisting of FortiSandbox, FortiGate, FortiMail, and FortiClient integrated together, earned a Recommended award by achieving a block rate of 99.6% and offering the lowest 3-year TCO.

• NSS Labs BPS Test Report FortiSandbox, FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiClient