"Increasingly, IT leaders are looking to secure their enterprises for less cost, with less complexity, greater visibility and more granular control, across users, devices, and applications," said Rob Carter, TierPoint senior vice president of product development, architecture and engineering. "CleanIP responds to those needs, enabling full-feature, next-generation firewall functionality, flexibly scaling from the edge to the core, with industry-leading security and performance, wherever workloads reside."
Using the Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall platform, CleanIP supports organisations protect against a vast number of intrusions in comparison to traditional managed firewall services and does so on a location neutral basis. In addition, the solution can be deployed across all different venue types including client premises to TierPoint facilities, with public or hyperscale cloud support.
"TierPoint is a Fortinet Platinum MSSP Partner that has established a growing presence in the healthcare, financial, education, government, SaaS, communications, and enterprise markets as a leader in managed security and cloud services," said Matt Pley, vice president of cloud, carriers, service providers & strategic accounts at Fortinet. "We're pleased to partner with TierPoint to offer customers advanced firewall services powered by the Fortinet Security Fabric and FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall."
Additionally, CleanIP offers intrusion detection and protection systems (IDS/IPS), SSL traffic inspection of all encrypted content, content filtering, network anti-virus/block malware, anti-botnet, IP reputation and application protection, VPN access with secure, multi-factor authentication, application awareness and user awareness.
In September, Telia Carrier and TierPoint entered into a partnership that sees Telia Carrier offer its Cloud Connect service across 25 TierPoint facilities in the US. By combining TierPoint’s edge data centre, cloud and managed services portfolio, with Telia Carrier’s Cloud Connect service, the two say that they are creating opportunities for thousands of US enterprises, in their digital transformation.
