Fortinet

Fortinet and Tigera have partnered to deliver container-integrated solutions for the Calico network stack. As Kubernetes pilot projects transition to enterprise-wide application rollouts, companies must be able to extend their existing enterprise security architecture into the Kubernetes environment. Maintaining two disparate security stacks introduces additional complexity and manual processes which can lead to configuration drift and increased security exposure. Recognizing this need for a unified security approach, Fortinet and Tigera have jointly developed a suite of Calico Fortinet Fabric Ready solutions that deliver:

• North-South network traffic visibility and protection
• East-West network traffic visibility and protection
• Compliance ready reports and evidence
• Threat-intelligence capabilities

This suite comprises 4 key integrations:

• FortiManager Calico Kubernetes Controller translates FortiManager network policies to Calico Kubernetes network policy from a centralized management platform.
• FortiGate Calico Kubernetes Controller automatically updates FortiGate firewalls with Kubernetes pod IPs to control pod egress access, minimize firewall change orders and eliminate error-prone manual processes.
• FortiGuard Threat Feed enriches the Calico Enterprise threat database with global real-time threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs to detect rogue containers and potentially compromised Kubernetes clusters.
• Calico FortiSIEM plug-in delivers Calico Enterprise generated Kubernetes telemetry data —DNS logs, flow logs, and audit logs—into the FortiSIEM for actionable intelligence by SecOps Incident and Response.

Calico Enterprise, Tigera’s commercial offering, layers tools and capabilities on Project Calico that enable platform engineers to accelerate the widespread adoption of Kubernetes across the enterprise. Addressing the needs of multiple stakeholders – end-users, application security requirements, networking and security teams – Calico Enterprise enables the platform team to streamline Kubernetes deployments resulting in faster-time-to-market, improved scalability and availability, agile multi/hybrid cloud flexibility while optimizing IT costs.