Fortinet FortiOS 5.6 !


Whats new in forti OS5.6!

New Forti OS 5.6 has released on April 2017. According to fortinet documents below features are the main changes and new improvements to OS.

  • Security Fabric enhancements
  • Re-designed Dashboard
  • NGFW Policy Mode
  • Transparent web proxy
  • Controlled failover between wireless controllers
  • FortiView Endpoint Vulnerability chart
  • FortiClient Profile changes
  • Adding Internet services to firewall policies
  • Source and destination NAT in a single Firewall policy

Other highlights

l Application Control is a free service

l Real time logging to FortiAnalyzer and FortiCloud

l Multiple PSK for WPA Personal (393320)

l VXLAN support (289354)

l NP6 Host Protection Engine (HPE) to add protection for DDoS attacks (363398)

l FortiGate Logs can be sent to syslog servers in Common Event Format (CEF) (300128)

l New PPPoE features

source Fortinet.com