The FortiGuard Management Service is targeted at SMB environments where the price of a traditional FortiManager solution is cost-prohibitive. Highlights of the FortiGuard Management Service include:

• Hosted service: Up and running in minutes!
• Configuration template repository: Store/Compare FortiGate configuration policies and apply them to any managed FortiGate system
• Firmware management: Store firmware images centrally and update FortiGate devices in real-time or on a scheduled basis

By delivering the solutions via a hosted service model, businesses of all sizes using FortiGate platforms can have a robust, fault tolerant security reporting, log management and centralised managemnent solution. There are no additional requirements for hardware, software or facilities - providing a low cost of entry for smaller organisations.