Asan Medical Center (AMC) sees dramatic 98% drop in spam traffic since deployment of Fortinet's FortiGate -300 Unified Threat Management (UTM) platforms.
【2006年03月14日，首爾•韓國訊】Fortinet - the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection– today announced that Asan Medical Center (AMC) has purchased and deployed five units of Fortinet's FortiGate™ -300 Unified Threat Management platforms for its five regional hospitals in Jeongeup, Boseong, Boryeong, Yeongdeok and Hongcheon in South Korea.
All AMC hospitals are operated by the Asan Foundation, which provides primary healthcare to communities in South Korea. The Asan Foundation, after an extensive review of network security at its hospitals, found that though the AMC headquarters facility was well-protected by a sophisticated and effective security infrastructure, the regional hospitals were not adequately protected against current threats. It was decided that each regional hospital needed multi-layered security to protect against the increasing frequency and complexity of viruses, worms, Trojans and other malicious software. AMC undertook an evaluation of available security solutions on the market, and eventually purchased Fortinet's FortiGate™ -300 Unified Threat Management (UTM) platforms to form the backbone of the new security infrastructure at its regional hospitals
AMC’s main concerns were comprehensive protection against a range of threats, intrusion detection and prevention, and spam management. Their focus was on finding a solution that was cost-effective, and because the solution would be deployed in remote locations, it needed to have integrated security functions, and be easily managed and updated with the latest threat signatures. AMC had also decided on a three-layer security model, so the solution needed to provide additional gateway antivirus and traffic control features, in addition to software with equivalent functions already running on user desktops and notebooks.
The purchase of five units of FortiGate™ -300 for the five regional hospitals, and their deployment was completed in January 2006. Since the deployment, the volume of spam messages has dropped 70%, while spam traffic on the network has dropped 98%. Antivirus, firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS), traffic shaping, content filtering and spam filtering functions were turned on for every one of the FortiGate™ -300 systems deployed.
“The system is highly cost-effective in terms of functionality and efficiency and provides unmatched security,” said Mr. Wooho Kyeong, Manager of IT Team at AMC. “We were impressed by the wide range of security features and we found, in particular, that the FortiGuardTM Distribution Network was particularly effective in dealing with viruses and spam. Our regional hospitals now have the degree of stability and availability in their computer networks that is needed in the important medical work that they do.”
The FortiGate™ -300 Antivirus Firewall provides performance, flexibility, and security necessary to protect enterprise networks. Four user-definable network ports can be assigned to provide redundant WAN links, high availability, and multi-zone capabilities, allowing administrators to segment their network into zones and create policies to control network traffic between zones. The FortiGate-300 is kept up to date automatically by Fortinet’s FortiGuard™ Distribution Network, which provides continuous updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats — around the clock, and around the world.
“In South Korea, we are seeing an increasing number of hospitals considering the introduction of IT systems like EMR (Electronic Medical Records), OCS (Order Communication Systems) and PACS (Picture Archiving Communication System). The importance of network security, to protect these data and information assets will likewise increase,” said Hansen Chang, Vice President of Fortinet Asia-Pacific, “Confidentiality and integrity of patient data in hospitals will need to be maintained, and we foresee a growing demand for our products in the months and years ahead.”
About Asan Medical Center (www.amc.seoul.kr)
Asan Medical Center (AMC) was established in 1989 with the charter to provide healthcare services to communities in South Korea. Since its inception, AMC hospitals have been known to provide high quality healthcare and treatment to patients, as well as a leader in the research and development of new and innovative medical techniques. And training. AMC regional hospitals are located in Jeongeup, Boseong, Boryeong, Yeongdeok and Hongcheon. AMC is owned and operated by the Asan Foundation.
關於 Fortinet (www.fortinet.com.tw)
Fortinet 是整合式威脅管理 (UTM；Unified Threat Management) 安全設備市場的領導廠商。履履獲獎的 FortiGate™ 系列產品，為 ASIC 硬體加速式多重威脅防護安全設備，曾獲 Network Computing Magazine 2004 年度資安產品獎，以及 2003 年網路產業年度防火牆產品獎等，為新世代的即時網路防護系統。FortiGate™ 可偵測透過網路傳輸，來自電子郵件或是網站的危險資料威脅，像是病毒、蠕蟲、網路入侵及不適當的網站內容等，而且不會影響網路效能。FortiGate™ 系列產品是業界唯一通過六種 ICSA 認證 (伺服器防毒、客戶端防毒、防火牆、IPSec、SSL、NIDS) 的資訊安全設備，以整合式且易於管控的平台，提供全方位的網路層與應用層服務。Fortinet 名列 Light Reading 雜誌前 10 大私有公司，以及 Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 前 50 大快速成長公司第 4 名，企業總部位於加州 Sunnyvale。
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