
FORTIGATE 40F FIREWALL
Fortinet Firewall
The FortiGate/FortiWiFi 40F series is an SD-WAN solution that guarantees security, scalability and focus on applications, in a compact fanless desktop format, suitable for medium-sized companies and corporate offices.
This solution offers protection against cyber threats, with system acceleration on a single chip and the best secure SD-WAN on the market, in a package that is easy to deploy, affordable and effective.
Fortinet's network security-oriented approach guarantees solid network integration with the new generation of security solutions.
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The FortiGate/FortiWiFi 40F solution guarantees security against cyber threats, with single-chip protection and the best secure SD-WAN on the market. What's more, it's easy to deploy and affordable. Fortinet's network security-oriented approach ensures solid network integration with the latest security solutions.
About FortiGate 40F, FortiWiFi 40F
Security
- The solution identifies thousands of applications on the network, allowing in-depth inspection and the application of specific policies. It also protects against malware, exploits and malicious websites in encrypted and unencrypted traffic.
- The solution is also capable of detecting and preventing known attacks, using continuous threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs security services with AI. To block unknown sophisticated attacks in real time, the solution uses FortiSandbox integrated with AI from the Fortinet Security Fabric.
Performance
Processing capacity: The Fortigate 40F is a next-generation firewall designed to offer high network and security performance. With a firewall throughput of up to 4 Gbps, it can process large volumes of network traffic without affecting the speed or effectiveness of protection.
Security features: The Fortigate 40F is equipped with a number of advanced security features, including advanced threat protection, content filtering, SSL/TLS inspection, data loss prevention and much more. These features help ensure that your network is protected against all known and unknown threats.
Centralized management: The Fortigate 40F comes with a centralized management console, which allows you to monitor and manage multiple instances of the device from a single interface. This makes security management easier and more efficient, especially for companies that have several branches or remote offices. In addition, the Fortigate 40F also supports integration with other network management tools, such as FortiManager, for even more simplified management.
Certifications
- Tested and Validated Security: Fortigate 40F features improved security effectiveness and performance, independently tested and validated. This means that network security is reliable and effective, ensuring that threats are detected and neutralized quickly and efficiently.
- Unrivaled Third-Party Certifications: Fortigate 40F has received unrivaled third-party certifications from NSS Labs, ICSA, Virus Bulletin and AV Comparatives. This shows that the network security is of high quality and meets the standards required by these independent organizations. With these certifications, users can be confident in the effectiveness and quality of Fortigate 40F in keeping the network safe and protected against threats.
Networking
Simplified Management: SD-WAN Orchestration offers an intuitive interface for centralized management and provisioning of business policies in a few easy clicks, providing greater agility and operational efficiency.
Rapid Deployment: With Zero Touch provisioning, the deployment process is accelerated, making it suitable for large, distributed infrastructures, with less time and effort required for configuration and maintenance.
Automated VPN tunnels: SD-WAN enables flexible hub-to-spoke and full-mesh deployment at scale, providing bandwidth aggregation and encrypted WAN paths. All without the need for laborious manual configuration.
Compliance and Security: Pre-defined compliance checklists analyze deployment and highlight best practices to improve the overall security posture, ensuring that security policies and configurations comply with the company's regulatory and security requirements.
Management
Simplified management: The Fortigate 40F has an effective and simple-to-use management console that provides comprehensive network automation and visibility. This means you can easily manage all aspects of the network and ensure more efficient and secure operation.
Zero Touch Provisioning: With Fabric Management Center technology, the Fortigate 40F offers zero-touch provisioning. This allows for faster and more efficient deployment, without the need for time-consuming manual configurations. Everything is managed from a single management panel, making it easier to administer the entire network.
Compliance and Security: To ensure that security policies and configurations comply with the company's regulatory and security requirements, Fortigate 40F has predefined compliance checklists. These analyze the deployment and highlight best practices to improve the overall security posture, ensuring that the network is always safe and secure.
Security Fabric
Integration with Partner Products: Fortigate 40F enables Fortinet and Fabric partner products to provide broader visibility, integrated end-to-end detection, threat intelligence sharing and automated remediation. This means that you can take full advantage of integration with other products to provide more comprehensive and effective protection.
Automatic Topology Visualizations: With Fortigate 40F, you can automatically create network topology visualizations that discover IoT devices and provide complete visibility into Fortinet and Fabric Ready partner products. This helps you quickly identify potential network vulnerabilities and take proactive measures to ensure network security and integrity.
Specifications
Firewall | IPS | NGFW | Threat Protection | Interfaces |
5 Gbps | 1 Gbps | 800 Mbps | 600 Mbps | Multiple GE RJ45 | WiFi variants |
Interfaces
- (1) 1x USB Port
- (2) 1x Console Port
- (3) 1x GE RJ45 WAN Port

- (4) 1x GE RJ45 FortiLink Port
- (5) 3x GE RJ45 Ethernet Ports
Features
Access layer security
Security and Network Integration: With the FortiLink protocol, it is possible to integrate security and network access by connecting the FortiSwitch to the FortiGate as a logical extension of the NGFW. This means that network security is extended to the switches, ensuring that the network as a whole is protected against threats.
Port flexibility: FortiLink-enabled ports can be reconfigured as regular ports as required. This allows for greater flexibility in network configuration and makes it easier to adapt the network infrastructure to the ever-changing needs of the business.
Compact and reliable Form Factory
Design for Small Environments: The Fortigate 40F has been designed specifically for small environments, allowing it to be placed on a table or mounted on the wall. Its installation versatility makes it suitable for different types of spaces and allows companies to optimize the network configuration according to their needs.
Reliability: Despite being small and light, the Fortigate 40F is highly reliable, with a superior MTBF (mean time between failures). This means that there is less chance of network interruptions due to equipment failure. The reliability of the Fortigate 40F is crucial to ensuring that the company's network is always available and runs smoothly.
Wireless and WAN extensions
USB Port for Additional WAN Connectivity: The FortiGate 40F series includes a USB port that allows the connection of a compatible third-party 3G/4G USB modem. This connection provides additional WAN connectivity that can be used as a redundant link to ensure maximum network reliability.
Connection Flexibility: The FortiGate 40F's USB port offers connection flexibility, allowing companies to choose the type of USB modem that best suits their needs and budget. With the USB modem connection option, companies can increase network capacity, ensuring that there is always a reliable connection available.
Wireless coverage
Dual-Band Coverage: The FortiWiFi 40F includes built-in internal antennas and a dual-band access point, offering fast coverage in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. This guarantees a reliable and stable connection throughout the entire wireless coverage area.
MIMO Antenna Technology: The FortiWiFi 40F's MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) antenna technology uses multiple antennas to provide wider and more efficient wireless coverage. This means that the FortiWiFi 40F can support a large number of users simultaneously, without compromising the quality of the connection.
Security Fabric Fortinet
Security Fabric is the cybersecurity platform that enables digital innovation. It offers broad visibility of the entire attack surface to better manage risks. Its unified and integrated solution reduces the complexity of supporting multiple point products, while automated workflows increase operational speeds and reduce response times in the Fortinet deployment ecosystem. O Fortinet Security Fabric covers the following key areas in a single management center:
- Security-oriented network that protects, accelerates and unifies the network and the user experience
- Access to the Zero Trust Network, which identifies and protects users and devices in real time, inside and outside the network
- Dynamic Cloud Security that protects and controls cloud infrastructures and applications
- AI-driven security operations that automatically prevent, detect, isolate and respond to cyber threats

FortiOS
FortiOS is the intuitive operating system that controls all the security and networking features of the FortiGate platform, which is the basis of the Fortinet Security Fabric. This reduces costs, complexity and response times by consolidating next-generation security products and services on a single platform. FortiOS is essential for the complete integration of the FortiGate platform's security features.

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)
- Maximize your return on investment and reduce complexity by integrating threat protection security features into a single high-performance network security appliance. FortiGate is powered by Fortinet's Security Processing Unit (SPU), which significantly speeds up traffic inspection, allowing security features to work without affecting network latency. This ensures that threats are identified and responded to in an efficient and timely manner, protecting your network against attacks.
- Achieve a comprehensive view of users, devices and applications across the entire network environment and implement consistent security policies across the entire attack surface, regardless of where the assets are located.guard against exploitable network vulnerabilities with industry-validated IPS that offers low latency and optimized network performance
- Automatically detects and blocks hidden threats in encrypted traffic using the industry's highest SSL inspection performance, including the latest TLS 1.3 standard with mandatory ciphers.
- Proactively blocks newly discovered sophisticated attacks in real time, with the help of FortiGuard Labs with AI and advanced threat protection services, included in the Fortinet Security Fabric.

Secure SD-WAN
- Maintain consistent business application performance with accurate detection, routing and optimization of dynamic WAN paths.
- Quickly adopt SaaS with multi-cloud access and end-to-end optimization for greater efficiency.
- Simplify with touchless deployment and centralized management through automatic provisioning, analysis and reporting.
- Strengthen your security posture with a state-of-the-art firewall and real-time threat protection.