FortiGate-VM Virtual Appliances

Certificate

Module description

Quoted from the NIST CMVP entry for this certificate.

FortiGate virtual appliances allow you to mitigate blind spots by implementing critical security controls within your virtual infrastructure. They also allow you to rapidly provision security infrastructure whenever and wherever it is needed. FortiGate virtual appliances feature all of the security and networking services common to traditional hardware-based FortiGate appliances. With the addition of virtual appliances from Fortinet, you can deploy a mix of hardware and virtual appliances, operating together and managed from a common centralized management platform.

Security level exceptions

• Cryptographic Module Ports and Interfaces: Level 3
• Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
• Physical Security: N/A
• Design Assurance: Level 3

Approved algorithms (6)

Other algorithms

DES; MD5; HMAC MD5; Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 188 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112-bits of encryption strength); RSA (key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112-bits of encryption strength)

Tested configurations

• FortiOS 4.0 MR3 on VMWare ESXi 5.0.0 Update 1 running on a Dell PowerEdge R410

Validation history

Status timeline

As observed by this tracker's snapshots. NIST publishes no dates for list moves; observation began 2026-08-21, so earlier changes carry no date.

• 2026-08-21: first observed by this tracker, status historical
• Validation dates on record: 2014-03-25

Source documents

• NIST certificate page
• Security policy (PDF)
• Consolidated certificate (PDF)