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# Service description

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FortiGate FWaaS is a cloud-based service that offers a fully managed and highly available firewall appliance. The service is compatible with VLAN-based private networks, cloud, and colocation workloads and can protect your network from cyber threats, control traffic, and enforce security policies. Read more

### Regional availability

The product is present in the following locations:

* dc-fbg1 (our Falkenberg DC, Sweden)
* dc-sto1 (our Stockholm DC, Sweden)
* dc-oul1 (our Oulu DC, Finland)

### Features at a Glance

* L3 and L7 policy-based industry-leading firewall technology
* IPsec and SSL VPN
* Anti-malware protection
* Intrusion detection and prevention
* URL, DNS, and video filtering
* Automatically updated detection databases
* Possibility to export logs
* Easy integration with SSOs and IdPs

### Technical specification

| **Customer self-service** | Yes, you get access to a web-based management GUI with full admin rights.     |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Capacity**              | Firewall throughput ranges from 100 Mbps up to tens of Gbps.                  |
| **High availability**     | Yes, we provide redundant firewall hardware, power, and network architecture. |

### Responsibilities

| **Infrastructure platform**                                                    | Glesys   |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- |
| **Service configuration**                                                      | Customer |
| **Upgrades and patching**                                                      | Glesys   |
| **Monitoring (customer-specific feature configs, for example, IPsec tunnels)** | Customer |