FortiDDoS Datasheet
FortiDDoS Datasheet
FortiDDoS™
FortiDDoS 200B, 400B, 600B, 800B, 900B, 1000B, 1000B-DC, 1200B, 1500E and 2000E
you from these attacks. What is the impact to your business if your §§ 100% Machine Learning DDoS detection
users cannot reach cloud services because your firewall or demarc §§ Completely invisible to attackers with no IP and no
router public IP is being DDoSed? Your CDN-based web servers MAC addresses in the data path. FortiDDoS is not
may be up but your business is down! a routing or terminating Layer 3 device.
Sophisticated multi-vector and multi-layer DDoS attacks use direct §§ Continuous threat evaluation to minimize false
and reflected packets where the spoofed, randomized source IPs positive detections
are impossible to ACL. These attacks are increasingly common §§ Advanced DNS DDoS mitigation on most models
as Mirai-style code has morphed into many variants and has been §§ MSSP Portal for customer resale
commercialized by providers of “stresser” sites. Anyone can call §§ Central Manager
down large attacks for a few dollars. §§ Hybrid On-premise/Cloud mitigation available with
To combat these attacks, you need a solution that dynamically Open Signaling
protects a large attack surface.
Highlights
The Power of SPUs — Flexible, and mitigation activities in real time on a FortiOS Security Fabric
Autonomous Defenses Dashboard, providing a single pane-of-glass view of DDoS threats
FortiDDoS protects you from known and “zero-day” attacks without and mitigations along with other Security Fabric products and
creating local or downloading subscription signatures for mitigation. partners.
Other vendors try to conserve CPU real-time by inspecting a
relatively small number of parameters at a low sample rate, unless Hybrid On-premise/Cloud DDoS Mitigation
and until an explicit signature is created. FortiDDoS’ massively While FortiDDoS can mitigate any DDoS attack to the limit of the
parallel SPU Traffic Processors sample 100% of even the smallest incoming bandwidth, large attacks can saturate incoming links,
packets, for over 230,000 parameters for each Protection Profile. forcing ISP routers to drop good traffic. FortiDDoS’ open and
This allows FortiDDoS to operate completely autonomously, finding documented Attack Signaling API allows our Security Fabric
some attacks on the FIRST packet and all attacks within 2 seconds partners to provide you a choice of best-in-class hybrid CPE/cloud
— broader and faster mitigation than any other vendor or method. DDoS mitigation when attacks threaten to congest upstream
There is no need to adjust settings, read pcaps or add regex-style resources. FortiDDoS inspects incoming GRE clean traffic from
manual signatures or ACLs in the middle of attacks. While attacks cloud DDoS providers to ensure continuity of logging and reporting,
are being mitigated, FortiDDoS continues to monitor all other and complete threat mitigation. FortiDDoS on-premise appliances
parameters to instantly react to added or changed vectors. can also provide your ISP with Flowspec scripts to support
diversion and multi-parameter blackholing of attack traffic.
The Resurrection of Botnets
Easily-compromised IoT devices have allowed Botnet attacks to Always-On Inline vs. Out-of-Path Mitigation
rise again and massive IoT growth assures us they are here to stay. Many hosting providers, MSSPs and ISPs are moving away from
While individual devices have little power, large groups can generate out-of-path detection, diversion and scrubbing as too limited and
record traffic. Attackers want to hide the real Source IPs of botted too slow for important infrastructure. Netflow-based detection and
devices so UDP, SYN, TCP Out-of-State (FIN/ACK/RST, etc.), DNS mitigation monitors a limited number of parameters for a few
and Protocol direct and reflected floods using spoofed Source IPs different attack types. FortiDDoS mitigates more than 150 attack
are back in vogue. Attackers can launch an unprecedented variety events, many with “depth” (all 65,000 TCP and UDP ports are
of simultaneous attack vectors. Small-packet floods stress both monitored and mitigated, for example). 100% packet inspection
firewalls and CPU-based DDoS appliances, preventing full and leading packet performance ensures mitigation from single-
inspection with unexpected results. FortiDDoS’ fully inspected packet anomalies to link-filling small-packet, fragmented UDP floods.
packet rate is class-leading.
Studies are showing that 75% of DDoS attacks last less than 15
minutes. Customers are also seeing multi-vector attacks, attacks
DNS-Based Attacks that sequentially change vectors and pulsed attacks that start and
Botnet-driven DNS attacks are popular because they can target stop frequently. FortiDDoS begins mitigating in less than 2 seconds
any type of infrastructure or they can co-opt your DNS servers to and its massively-parallel detection and mitigation ensures multi-
attack others with reflected DDoS attacks. FortiDDoS is the only vector, sequential and pulsed attacks are seen and stopped.
DDoS mitigation platform that inspects 100% of all DNS traffic
in both directions, to protect against all types of DDoS attacks All FortiDDoS models offer High Availability and select models offer
directed at, or from DNS servers. It validates over 30 different Optical Bypass (to 100GE) to ensure network continuity in the event
parameters on every DNS packet at up to 12 M Queries/second. of system failures. When attacks threaten link bandwidth, Flowspec
It’s built-in cache can offload the local server during floods. scripts can be generated to configure upstream router ACLs.
FortiDDoS’ innovative DQRM feature stops inbound Reflected
FortiDDoS also offers a wide range of static and dynamic ACLs
DNS attacks from the very first packet. FortiDDoS also supports
to offload other infrastructure. For example, FortiDDoS supports
FortiGuard’s Domain Reputation Service for ISPs to protect clients
BCP-38 and FortiGuard Domain Reputation blocks IoT and
from known malicious domains.
end-user communications to botnet controllers and malicious
domains. FortiDDoS ACLs operate at line-rate with no impact on
Security Fabric performance even with millions of blacklisted IPs.
FortiDDoS complements Fortinet’s full suite of Security Fabric
products, each of which uses purpose-built hardware with FortiDDoS offers multitenant real-time graphing and attack
dedicated engineering and support resources to provide best-in- reporting for resale to customers.
class focused protection. FortiDDoS displays system performance
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FortiDDoS Features
Packet Inspection Technology Layer 3 Attack Mitigation DNS Attack Mitigation
§§ 100% Packet Inspection §§ Protocol Floods (all 256 monitored) §§ First-packet DNS Response Flood
§§ Full IPv4/IPv6 Support to single IP §§ Fragment Floods (TCP/UDP/Other mitigation
addresses Protocols) §§ DNS Header/payload anomalies
§§ Machine learning for Predictive, §§ Source Floods (6M monitored) §§ DNS Query / MX / ALL / ZT / fragment /
Heuristic, Adaptive Analysis §§ FortiGuard IP Reputation Subscription per-Source Floods
§§ Deep Packet Inspection §§ Full L3-L7 IP-inside-GRE Inspection §§ DNS Query Source validation
§§ TCP State knowledge to instantly §§ DNS Unexpected Query
mitigate out-of-state attacks
Layer 4 Attack Mitigation §§ DNS Response cache under flood
§§ TCP Ports (all 65k)
§§ DNS Query Monitoring to instantly §§ DNS Query TTL checks
§§ UDP Ports (all 65k)
mitigate DNS Reflected attacks §§ Domain Reputation Subscription
§§ TCP / UDP Service / Gaming Ports
§§ Complete invisibility with no MAC nor IP
addresses in the data path
§§ ICMP Type/Codes (all 65k) Access Control Lists
§§ SYN, SYN/Destination with line-speed FortiDDoS is the ONLY product in the
§§ Massively parallel processing for multiple
validation, SYN/Source industry that supports large ACLs in
simultaneous attack vectors
§§ First-packet TCP State flood mitigation hardware with no performance degradation.
Behavioral Threshold §§ Slow Connections While most DDoS attacks use spoofed
Management §§ TCP Source validation Source IPs, your existing Indicators of
§§ Machine-learning thresholds for millions §§ L4 Aggressive Connection Aging Compromise IP and Domain lists can be
of L3-L7 parameters uploaded to FortiDDoS to offload other
§§ Automatic adaptive thresholds
HTTP Attack Mitigation
infrastructure.
§§ Top 32k HTTP URLs
estimation for critical L3, L4 and L7 §§ IP Reputation – Fortinet FortiGuard
§§ Top 500 Referers, Cookies, Hosts,
parameters subscription
User Agents
§§ IP/subnet Blacklist/Whitelist
100% Anomaly Inspection §§ HTTP METHOD Floods (all 8 METHODS
§§ Bulk IPv4 Blacklist Customer Upload
§§ L3/L4/L7 HTTP Headers +Total Methods/Source)
(>1million addresses)
§§ DNS Header and Payload §§ SSL Renegotiation
§§ Geolocation
§§ TCP State and Transition Anomalies §§ L7 Aggressive Aging
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FortiDDoS Features
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Specifications
System Performance
Inspected Throughput (Enterprise Mix — Gbps) 3 6 12 12
Inspected Packet Throughput (Mpps) 4 8 15 15
SYN Flood Mitigation (SYN In + Coookie Out) Mpps 3.5 7 14 14
Simultaneous TCP Connections (M) 1 1 2 2
Simultaneous Sources (M) 1 1 2 2
Session Setup/Teardown (kcps) 100 100 200 200
Latency (µs) Maximum/Typical <50/<10
DDoS Attack Mitigation Response Time (s) <2
Advanced DNS Mitigation Yes Yes No Yes
DNS Queries per second (M) 1 2 NA 4
Open Hybrid Cloud Mitigation Support Yes
Environment
Input Voltage AC 100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz
Input Voltage DC —
Power Consumption (Average) 156 W 156 W 174 W 174 W
Power Consumption (Maximum) 260 W 260 W 285 W 285 W
Maximum Current AC 110V/5.29A, 120V/2.2A
Maximum Current DC —
Heat Dissipation (BTU/hr) / (kjoules/hr) 887 / 936 887 / 936 972 /1026 972 /1026
Operating Temperature 32–104°F (0–40°C)
Storage Temperature -13–158°F (-25–70°C)
Humidity 5–95% non-condensing
Compliance
Safety Certifications FCC Class A Part 15, UL/CB/cUL, C-Tick, VCCI, CE
Dimensions
Height x Width x Length (inches) 1.77 x 17 x 16.32
Height x Width x Length (mm) 45 x 432 x 414.5
Weight 17.2 lbs (7.8 kg)
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Specifications
Environment
Input Voltage AC 100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz
Input Voltage DC — 40.5–57V DC — — —
Power Consumption (Average) 253 W 253 W 311 W 1320 W 1320 W
Power Consumption (Maximum) 422 W 422 W 575 W 2200 W 2200 W
Maximum Current AC 110V/10.0A, 220V/5.0A 110V/10.0A, 220V/5.0A 110V/10.0A, 220V/5.0A 110V/12A, 220V/9A 110V/12A, 220V/9A
Maximum Current DC — 24A — — —
Heat Dissipation (BTU/hr) / (kjoules/hr) 1440 / 1420 1440 / 1420 1962 / 2070 8327 / 8785 8327 / 8785
Operating Temperature 32–104°F (0–40°C)
Storage Temperature -13–158°F (-25–70°C)
Humidity 5–95% non-condensing
Compliance
Safety Certifications FCC Class A Part 15, UL/CB/cUL, C-Tick, VCCI, CE
Dimensions
Height x Width x Length (inches) 3.5 x 17.24 x 22.05
Height x Width x Length (mm) 88 x 438 x 560
Weight 36.0 lbs (16.2 kg) 36.0 lbs (16.2 kg) 36.0 lbs (16.2 kg) 44.0 lbs (20.0 kg) 44.0 lbs (20.0 kg)
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Order Information
OPTIONAL ACCESSORY
Product SKU Description
External redundant AC power supply FRPS-100 External redundant AC power supply for up to 4 units: FG-300C, FG-310B, FS-348B and FS-448B.
Up to 2 units: FG-200B, FG-200D, FG-240D and FG-300D, FG-500D, FDD-200B, FDD-400B and FDD-800B.
Not supported for: FG-200D-POE/240D-POE.
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