FortiGate Firewall as a Service

Name: Managed Firewall Service
Brand: Atlantic.net
Availability: InStock

Fully Managed Next-Generation Firewall with IPS Built In

Deployed, Tuned, and Monitored by Atlantic.Net.

FortiGate Firewall as a Service

Your hosted infrastructure lives behind a perimeter that can inspect encrypted traffic, help detect and block known, unknown, and zero-day threats, stop ransomware, and protect cloud, dedicated, and remote-user connections simultaneously. FortiGate Firewall as a Service delivers an enterprise-grade firewall estate as a managed subscription.

No appliance to buy, no licensing to chase, no firewall engineer to hire.

Atlantic.Net configures, updates, and monitors your FortiGate platform, the most widely deployed network firewall in the world, around the clock from our US-based Security Operations Center. One service replaces the separate Managed Firewall and IPS products we previously offered, and adds everything a modern next-generation firewall brings: AI-powered threat intelligence, SSL inspection, application control, VPN, and web filtering on a single platform.

What Is FortiGate Firewall as a Service?

FortiGate Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) is a managed Fortinet FortiGate next-generation firewall deployed in front of your Atlantic.Net cloud or dedicated server infrastructure. Firewalling and intrusion prevention run natively on the same platform, alongside VPN, SSL inspection, application control, web filtering, and inline AI-based malware detection.

Atlantic.Net engineers handle provisioning, policy configuration, firmware, signature updates, and threat response. You retain visibility and approval over policy changes and keep full control of your servers. The service consolidates two products Atlantic.Net used to sell separately, Managed Firewall and Intrusion Detection System, into one integrated platform with a single policy framework and one support relationship.

What's Included

Fully Managed Next-Generation Firewall

Atlantic.Net configures, tunes, and maintains your FortiGate. Rule changes, firmware, and signature updates are handled by our engineers. No hardware to rack, no license renewals to track, no in-house firewall specialist required.

Built-In Intrusion Prevention (IPS)

Every deployment includes the Fortinet IPS engine with regularly updated FortiGuard signatures and threat intelligence. Known exploits, CVEs, and attack patterns are blocked in-line in the same pass as firewall enforcement. No separate appliance, no chained inspection points.

AI-Powered Threat Protection

FortiGuard AI-powered security services apply machine learning to known, unknown, zero-day, and AI-generated threats. Inline malware prevention inspects unknown files in real time and produces a verdict without waiting for a signature release. Data loss prevention rules watch outbound traffic for sensitive patterns on enterprise-tier subscriptions.

Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN

IPsec and Remote VPN Access out of the box. Connect branch offices and colocated infrastructure over encrypted tunnels. Support remote users with managed accounts, multi-factor authentication, and policy-based access to specific resources.

SSL/TLS Deep Inspection

SSL inspection lets your firewall, IPS, and content policies see inside encrypted sessions without crippling throughput. The blind spot that covers most modern malware delivery closes.

Application Control, Web, and DNS Filtering

Allow, block, or restrict traffic by the specific application generating it, not just port or protocol. Web filtering blocks malicious, phishing, and policy-violating URLs. DNS security and botnet protection cut off command-and-control callbacks before data exfiltration or lateral movement.

24/7/365 SOC Monitoring

Atlantic.Net's US-based Security Operations Center watches your deployment around the clock. When attacks escalate or FortiGate flags traffic our engineers need to investigate, response happens immediately, not at the start of the next business day.

Audited Compliance Alignment

FortiGate FWaaS operates inside Atlantic.Net's SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 Type II, HIPAA, HITECH, PCI-DSS 4.0, and NIST 800-53 audited environments. The same platform is already part of Atlantic.Net's HIPAA and PCI-compliant hosting stacks. If you run a regulated workload, your firewall controls can be cited directly in audit documentation.

Protect your network from evolving threats. Atlantic.Net's Managed Firewall provides comprehensive security and 24/7 monitoring. Contact us to safeguard your data. For faster application deployment, free IT architecture design, and assessment, call 888-618-DATA (3282) or email us at [email protected].

Business Outcomes

One Platform, Lower Total Cost

Running separate firewall, IPS, VPN, web filtering, and sandbox products means multiple contracts, multiple consoles, and multiple skill sets. A Forrester Total Economic Impact study of Fortinet NGFW with FortiGuard AI-powered services reported a 318% three-year ROI, payback in under 6 months, a 50% reduction in network outages, and 40% cost savings compared to the baseline.

Compliance Without the Assembly Work

For workloads under HIPAA, PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2, or NIST 800-53, firewall and IPS controls are not optional. FortiGate FWaaS is delivered within Atlantic.Net's audited environments, with documentation available for your compliance team. The same platform already underpins our HIPAA-compliant and PCI-compliant hosting services.

Faster Response to Emerging Threats

FortiGuard Labs processes threat telemetry at a scale no individual organization can match. When a new exploit appears in the wild, signatures propagate across every managed FortiGate within minutes. Your defenses update continuously, without your team having to track CVE feeds.

Business Continuity: You Do Not Have to Babysit

Most serious breaches trace back to a perimeter failure: an unpatched appliance, a misconfigured rule, a missed IPS signature. A fully managed FortiGate deployment removes those failure modes from your team's shoulders. Continuous updates, continuous monitoring, continuous response, handled by engineers whose job it is.

Who Needs FortiGate FWaaS

Business Type	Why FortiGate Fits
Healthcare and telehealth	HIPAA-aligned firewall plus IPS in an audited environment, with a BAA available
E-commerce and payment platforms	PCI DSS 4.0 firewall and IPS requirements covered in one service
Financial services and fintech	NGFW, IPS, DLP, and SSL inspection for sensitive workflows, with a strong audit trail
SaaS applications	Hybrid-ready firewall covering cloud and colocated assets under one policy
Regulated industries	NIST 800-53 alignment and audit documentation available
Businesses without dedicated security staff	Managed service reduces the need for a full-time firewall engineer
Hybrid-environment operators	Cloud, dedicated, and remote-user traffic are protected under one policy framework.

A Platform You Can Trust

FortiGate is the most widely deployed network firewall in the world. Fortinet is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls and the Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewalls, with particular recognition for unified management and consistent AI-powered security across hybrid environments.

The threat intelligence driving your deployment comes from FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet's global threat research operation, which processes trillions of security events every day across six million firewalls, three million web gateways, twenty million email systems, ten million endpoints, and five million sandbox detonations. When a threat is detected anywhere in that fleet, your FortiGate benefits within minutes.

Atlantic.Net operates that platform for you from our audited data center infrastructure:

100% uptime SLA on network, hardware, and power
24/7/365 US-based support — phone, email, chat, no outsourcing
Atlantic.Net since 1994 — 31+ years hosting mission-critical workloads

Frequently Asked Questions

A managed, subscription-based deployment of a Fortinet FortiGate next-generation firewall, operated by Atlantic.Net engineers in front of your hosted infrastructure. It includes firewalling, intrusion prevention (IPS), SSL inspection, VPN, application control, web filtering, and AI-powered threat protection in one platform. Atlantic.Net's Security Operations Center handles configuration, updates, monitoring, and incident response.

FortiGate FWaaS replaces both with a single integrated service on the Fortinet FortiGate platform. IPS is built directly into the solution. The new service also adds next-generation capabilities that the older products did not provide: SSL inspection, application control, web and DNS filtering, AI-powered malware detection, and continuously updated FortiGuard threat intelligence.

Host-based firewalls (iptables, Windows Firewall, security groups) enforce rules at the operating system level on traffic that has already reached your server. FortiGate inspects and filters upstream before traffic touches your infrastructure, and applies IPS, application control, and deep packet inspection that host firewalls cannot. Most enterprise-grade security postures use both.

Yes. A fully managed FortiGate firewall with IPS is part of both Atlantic.Net's HIPAA-compliant and PCI-compliant hosting stacks. Customers who do not require full HIPAA or PCI compliance but want FortiGate-level network security can subscribe to FortiGate FWaaS as a standalone managed service.

Provisioning and rule configuration, firmware and signature updates, policy tuning, performance monitoring, incident detection, SOC escalation, and reporting. You define the access and security policies you need; we implement and maintain them. Policy changes are made on request through your account team and approved before going live.

FortiGate FWaaS is priced based on the deployment tier, the services activated (NGFW, IPS, AI-powered threat protection, DLP, and so on), and the scale of the protected environment. Contact the Atlantic.Net sales team for a quote tailored to your infrastructure.

Ready to consolidate your firewall, IPS, and network security into one managed service? Tell the Atlantic.Net team about your infrastructure, your workload, and your compliance requirements. We will design a FortiGate Firewall-as-a-Service deployment tailored to your environment and managed around the clock by our US-based security engineers.

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