The FortiAuthenticator™ 1000C is a user identity management appliance, developed to enable user authentication, two-factor authentication, identity verification and network access.

FortiAuthenticator has been developed to complement and extend the FortiToken™ two-factor authentication capability to multiple FortiGate® devices, as well as any third-party solution supporting RADIUS or LDAP authentication. FortiAuthenticator and FortiToken ensure that only authorized individuals access your organization's sensitive information -- enabling more efficient business processes, protecting your data, lowering IT costs, and boosting user productivity.

Designed to provide a centralized repository for user validation, FortiAuthenticator brings together multiple technologies for user authentication:

• RADIUS and LDAP (password) authentication, enhanced with FortiToken two-factor authentication
• FortiGate Single Sign-On (FSSO), transparent user authentication used by FortiGate identity-based policies

• Simple deployment and a low-cost upgrade path from existing FortiToken deployments.
• Centralized user authentication via standards-based RADIUS or LDAP to support the widest range of network access servers
• Integration with existing LDAP-based authentication databases accelerates deployment
• Strong two-factor authentication delivers additional security and confidence in user identity over traditional password-based authentication.
• Fortinet Single Sign On integrates with existing Active Directory infrastructures to provide transparent network authentication and identity-based policies with FortiGate.