Hardware Install Guide for FortiScan
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Introduction
Welcome
, and thank you for selecting Fortinet products for your network protection.
FortiScan is a managed security service provider (MSSP)- and enterprise-level IT security
solution. It empowers you to protect your many network hosts from known vulnerabilities
and exploits, and to achieve compliance with many regimes, including:
•
PCI DSS
•
SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley)
•
HIPAA
•
FDCC
•
USGCB
FortiScan physical or virtual network appliances, together with FortiScan agents, help you
to efficiently address the ever-increasing number of computer security threats. FortiScan
network appliances provide ready-to-deploy fixes and enforcement actions, which can
change host configurations to mitigate weak settings and patch applications. This frees
your time to focus on zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, before vendor-provided
patches or fixes are available.
FortiScan network appliances can scan your network for vulnerabilities and compliance
exposures, prioritizing hosts by risk.
Scope
This document will assist you in physically installing the FortiScan appliance, such as
assembling the hardware and mounting the appliance in a rack.
It does
not
cover configuring the FortiScan software, nor does it cover deploying the non-
hardware, virtual machine (FortiScan-VM) version of the appliance. For those, see the
FortiScan Administration Guide
and
Conventions
This document uses the conventions described below.