The Fortigate Firewall Service Layer

The tests mapped to this layer (see Figure 1), monitor:

• the session activity on the firewall;
• the resource utilization, network traffic, session activity, and the extent of protection delivered by the firewall cluster unit;
• the number of files scanned by the scan unit of the firewall;
• the number of virus transmissions detected over HTTP;
• the number of virus transmissions blocked over HTTP and SMTP;
• the number of virus transmissions blocked over FTP and Instant Messsenger protocol;
• the total number of virus transmissions blocked;
• the status of each sensor on the firewall;

Figure 1 : The tests associated with the Fortigate Firewall Service layer