Fortinet FortiGate 3000F DC FortiGuard IPS Service, 1-Year (FC-10-FD3K0-108-02-12)

Running a FortiGate 3000F-DC in a production data center means inspecting high volumes of east-west and north-south traffic while keeping latency out of the critical path. FC-10-FD3K0-108-02-12 keeps the firewall’s intrusion prevention engine connected to Fortinet’s live threat intelligence feeds for 12 months, ensuring the IPS policy stays current against the exploit kits, vulnerability scans, and botnet traffic that cycle through enterprise networks daily.

What FortiGuard IPS Covers

The IPS service subscription delivers continuously updated detection content to the FortiGate 3000F-DC inspection engine:

• Signature-based detection — pattern-matched coverage against known CVEs and exploit kits, updated through Fortinet’s global threat research network.
• Protocol analysis — deep packet inspection across common application protocols to catch traffic anomalies and evasion attempts.
• Malicious URL database — an IPS-layer blocklist of drive-by exploit URLs and botnet C&C domains, stopping threats before they reach internal systems.
• Virtual patching — network-layer mitigation for known CVEs, giving teams time to schedule server patches without leaving a window of exposure.
• AI/ML-assisted detection — heuristic analysis that extends signature coverage to newly released exploit variants.

Who Uses a Standalone IPS Subscription

Organizations that already hold the FortiGate 3000F-DC under a support contract and want to activate or renew IPS coverage as a discrete line item. This approach suits environments where other threat categories are handled by dedicated tools, and where procurement tracks each security service separately at renewal.

Activation and Delivery

This is an electronic license. A Fortinet contract registration key arrives by email after order confirmation, normally within one business day. The key is applied through the FortiGate GUI (System > FortiGuard) or CLI, then verified against the FortiCare portal, which starts the 12-month IPS term from the activation date. There is no hardware shipment.

IPS Alone vs. the FortiGuard Bundles

FC-10-FD3K0-108-02-12 activates intrusion prevention only. Fortinet’s three bundle tiers include the same IPS engine and add progressively broader coverage around it:

If the FortiGate 3000F-DC needs antivirus, URL filtering, or bundled support alongside IPS, a UTP or Enterprise bundle subscription is the more cost-effective path. The FortiGate 3000F-DC series page lists available bundle SKUs for comparison.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner. FC-10-FD3K0-108-02-12 is priced from the current Fortinet catalog and fulfilled as an electronic contract key, available to organizations worldwide. For questions on multi-year terms, bundle alternatives, or volume orders for the 3000F-DC, contact the team before purchasing.