Cybersecurity for Communications Service Providers
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Key CSP Cybersecurity Challenges
Network Performance
Customers expect high performance from their CSP’s networks—whether they are using in-store wireless access at a retail location or waiting for their traffic to be routed through the corporate data center. If security technology decreases network performance, it will negatively impact customer experience.
Operational Efficiency
Securing a CSP’s vast network requires a number of different security elements. If these security solutions are not integrated, security workflows must be managed manually. These operational inefficiencies delay threat detection, prevention, and response, create redundancy, and increase operating expense (OpEx) costs.
End-to-End Visibility
CSPs have diverse networks, including on-premises data centers, cloud deployments, and retail locations with internet-connected point-of-sale (POS) systems. Protecting these heterogeneous networks requires networkwide visibility. However, the point security products deployed to protect against sophisticated, multifaceted attacks create silos that impair visibility.
Sophisticated Threat Landscape
CSP data centers and the POS devices deployed at their retail locations are an attractive target for cyber criminals. Theft of the data on these devices or denial of access to critical services via distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) or ransomware attacks deny access to critical systems, which can harm a CSP’s ability to meet service-level agreements (SLAs). And as digital innovation creates new attack vectors, including guest wireless networks at retail locations and deployment of IoT devices, protecting against these threats becomes increasingly difficult.
Regulatory Compliance
CSPs collect payment card and other sensitive data from customers—both at brick-and-mortar retail locations and through online portals. This sensitive data is stored and processed across the organization’s network—both in on-premises data centers and private and public clouds, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Securing this data in accordance with regulatory standards, such as PCI DSS, becomes more challenging as the organization’s network grows in complexity.
Branch Networking
CSPs have a number of remote offices that process sensitive user data while onboarding customers and troubleshooting. These branch locations can be a target for attackers trying to gain access to sensitive data or to use them as a stepping stone for access to the headquarters network.
Achieving centralized visibility and control of security operations throughout the headquarters network.
Learn More Securing payment card data as it flows through the organization’s network and simplifying Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance
Learn More Delivering reliable and high-speed networking to branch locations while ensuring end-to-end security from the internet to the switching infrastructure.
Learn More Leveraging real-time threat intelligence, centralized visibility, and automated threat detection and response to secure the enterprise network.
Learn More Consolidating and centralizing visibility, configuration, and control of multi-cloud environments to provide adaptive cloud security to service providers
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Learn More Securing payment card data as it flows through the organization’s network and simplifying Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance
Learn More Delivering reliable and high-speed networking to branch locations while ensuring end-to-end security from the internet to the switching infrastructure.
Learn More Leveraging real-time threat intelligence, centralized visibility, and automated threat detection and response to secure the enterprise network.
Learn More Consolidating and centralizing visibility, configuration, and control of multi-cloud environments to provide adaptive cloud security to service providers
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Fortinet Differentiators for CSP Cybersecurity
Visibility
The Fortinet Security Fabric, which offers out-of-the-box integration with over 250 third-party security solutions, enables CSPs to achieve single-pane-of-glass visibility and configuration management for security elements across their network. This enables consistent security policy enforcement, even in cloud environments, while speeding threat detection and response. Tight integration allows CSPs to minimize operational expenditure (OpEx) while meeting SLAs.
Automation
Fortinet solutions enable the latest in security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) capabilities. This strengthens a CSP’s security companywide and enables these enterprises to scale and address resource constraints by maximizing the effectiveness of available skilled personnel. Centralized security management enables enforcement of policies throughout the network and automated report generation for regulators, the C-suite, and the board.
Proactive, AI-driven Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) at FortiGuard Labs is communicated to security devices in real time via the Fortinet Security Fabric. This provides comprehensive protection against known and unknown threats across the network, from an organization’s POS systems to its cloud-based infrastructure.
High Performance
FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), with corroborated performance testing by NSS Labs, offer the industry’s lowest latency. The highly efficient custom FortiGate application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), as well as the world’s first software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) ASIC, enables Fortinet to provide high-performance security at the WAN edge and throughout the network. Moreover, turning on advanced features such as secure sockets layer/transport layer security (SSL/TLS) encryption inspection does not impact network performance in speed or throughput. In addition, the FortiGate VM series supports packet acceleration technologies such as data plane development kit (DPDK), single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV), and Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT), along with Fortinet virtual security processing unit (vSPU) technology, to deliver the best performance needed in CSPs’ data centers, whether on-premises or in a private or public cloud.
Études de cas
Blogs
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Gives the Performance of a Lifetime, Recommended by NSS Labs FortiGate Intrusion Prevention Continues to Excel in NSS Labs’ NGIPS Testing Results How Fortinet Connects with Communications Service Providers (CSPs) MSSPs: Disrupting the SD-WAN Market for Fun and Profit Enabling Security-Driven Networking Across Industries With Secure SD-WAN Accelerate Security Operations Leveraging Fortinet’s Security Fabric + SOAR
