Maryland Health Benefit Exchange

Maryland Health Benefit Exchange (MHBE)

Fortinet

Our Winning Award

AlxTel is excited to announce that we won the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange award of Fortinet for the amount of $51,880.92. Fortinet’s FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFW) provide organizations supreme protection against web-based network threats, including known and unknown threats and intrusion strategies. Deployed on-premises, through virtual hardware, or in the cloud, FortiGate firewalls seamlessly integrate with FortiGuard Labs security services to extend and strengthen an enterprise’s overall security efforts from network edge to core.

Contract Title: Fortinet

Winning Award
Award date
Award Date
Jan 9, 2023
Award amount
Award Amount
$51,660.92
Start date
Start Date
Jan 9, 2023
End date
End Date
Jan 08, 2024

Maryland Health Benefit Exchange (MHBE)

Maryland Health Benefit Exchange MHBE is responsible for the administration of Maryland Health Connection, the state’s health insurance marketplace, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). MHBE works with Maryland Department of Health, Maryland Insurance Administration, Department of Human Services and stakeholders statewide.

The MHBE will ensure that all populations can access health coverage by requiring cultural competence in its operations and outreach, and a simplified process to determine eligibility for free or low-cost health insurance.

It is the only place where Marylanders can access financial help to make coverage more affordable. Once an individual or family selects one of the many private health plans or programs that best meets their needs, they may enroll directly through Maryland Health Connection. Small businesses may utilize Maryland Health Connection for Small Business to select plans that meet the needs of their employees and provide tax credits to reduce the cost of employer-sponsored coverage for qualifying businesses.

Fortinet Provides A New Approach To Cybersecurity With Broad, Integrated & Automated Technologies.

The Fortinet Security Fabric brings together the concepts of convergence and consolidation to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for all users, devices, and applications and across all network edges.

Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) is an architectural approach that promotes interoperability between distinct security products to achieve a more consolidated security posture. The Fortinet Security Fabric reduces operational complexity while ensuring compliance, emphasizes interoperability as well as analytics, intelligence, centralized management, and automation, and integrates with a broad ecosystem of technologies and vendors.

Detect threats and enforce security everywhere

Our broad portfolio includes converged networking and security offerings across endpoints, networks, and clouds. It enables high-performing connectivity and coordinated real-time threat detection and policy enforcement across the entire digital attack surface and lifecycle.

Close security gaps and reduce complexity

The Fortinet Fabric is built with best-of-breed technologies are integrated with AI-powered centralized analysis and automated prevention. This delivers cohesive and consistent security, simplified operations across different technologies, locations, and deployments.

Enable faster time to prevention and efficient operations

A context aware, self-healing network and security posture?leverages?cloud-scale and advanced AI to automatically deliver near-real-time, user-to-application coordinated protection across the?Fabric. Process automation simplifies operations for large scale deployments and frees up IT teams, to focus on innovation.

Secure & Modern Networking Technology

Growing and scaling digital business while protecting a distributed infrastructure has never been more critical or complex. Networks today are center of innovation and enable digital acceleration using network modernization. Fortinet’s Secure Networking converges networking technologies with AI-powered security across all edges to close security gaps and help organizations achieve better user experience.

  • SD-WAN and LTE/5G for WAN Transformation: Fortinet delivers fast, scalable, and flexible Secure SD-WAN for cloud-first, security-sensitive, and global enterprises. Our Security-Driven Networking approach converges SD-WAN, next-generation firewall (NGFW), and advanced routing to deliver a secure and better user experience. FortiGate provides an SD-WAN and LTE/5G controller at no extra cost to deliver instant ROI.
  • Secure Switches and Wireless with LAN Edge: by leveraging Security-Driven Networking, Fortinet allows organizations to secure Ethernet switches and wireless LAN without the need for costly and complex licensing schemes.
  • Universal ZTNA Enforcement: FortiGate NGFW is the only network security solution in the industry with ZTNA enforcement to enable explicit application access. With flexible deployment offerings, Fortinet enables universal ZTNA enforcement for the hybrid workforce.
  • Centralized Management and Network Automation: Centralized management enables provisioning and management of both networking and security products with one console. Network automation uses network and security software tools to maximize efficiency and functionality of the network to further reduce complexity.
  • Comprehensive and Consistent Web Security Everywhere: Fortinet Secure Web Gateway offers defense-in-depth security including web filtering, DNS Security, inline CASB, antivirus, antimalware, anti-botnet, SSL inspection, data loss prevention, and more. This enables secure internet access and secure private access. With a flexible cloud-delivered and on-prem offering, Fortinet enables consistent web security posture across the entire infrastructure.

The Key Pillars of the Fortinet Security Fabric

One operating system drives the Fortinet Security Fabric, which supports granular use cases with more deployment models than any other solution. These include physical, virtual, cloud, and X-as-a-Service environments. And it encompasses the industry’s broadest ecosystem and product portfolio, spanning endpoints, networks, and clouds.

FortiGuard AI-Powered Security

Enables fast coordinated detection and enforcement across the entire attack surface.

Secure Networking

Addresses digital acceleration challenges by tightly integrating network infrastructure with advanced security across all edges.

Zero Trust Access

Enables consistent, seamless, enterprise-class security across all applications & all users, automatically adjusting to perceived risks.

Secure Applications and Connectivity

Fortinet cloud security solutions provide visibility and control across public and private clouds, and data centers.

Hybrid Security

Hybrid security solutions protect and connect across all points of deployment while simplifying cloud operations.

App & API Protection

Fortinet simplifies securing web applications and APIs with robust protection and mitigation against threats.

Cloud-Native Protection

With Fortinet cloud-native security solutions users can gain insights into and manage cloud security postures on any cloud.

Zero Trust Access Use Cases

Fortinet Zero Trust Access solutions provide continuous verification of all users and devices as they access corporate applications and data.

  • IoT Endpoint and Device Protection: Identify and secure unknown IoT endpoints and devices entering the network. Integrated endpoint visibility, control, and advanced protection ensure organizations are secure.
  • Identity and Access Management: Identify and verify users entering the network with high reliability. Centralized authentication includes SSO, certificate management, and guest management. MFA confirms identity with a second factor.
  • Remote Access and Application Access: Fortinet ZTNA solutions grant access on a per-session basis to individual applications only after devices and users are verified. This policy is also applied when users are on the network, enabling the same zero-trust model no matter the user’s location.

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