Vendor Sheet
Fortinet and Ribbon Communications: Securing Your RTC Border
Fortinet and Ribbon Communications integrate FortiGate firewalls with Ribbon Session Border Controllers to secure SIP-based voice, video, and unified communications across branches, remote users, virtual networks, and clouds. Ribbon SBCs provide session routing, SIP normalization, overload controls, interoperability, media transcoding, and behavioral analysis, while FortiGate adds NGFW protection, SSL inspection, application control, and FortiGuard intelligence. The platforms exchange SIP trunk configuration, contextual events, and blacklists or whitelists so FortiGate becomes UC-aware. This enables automated provisioning, near-real-time blocking of malicious IP addresses, and coordinated defense against data exfiltration, registration floods, telephony denial-of-service, theft of service,
