What advantage does FortiGate provide with its Application Control feature?

The Application Control feature in FortiGate provides the significant advantage of distinguishing between various types of applications, which enhances traffic management. This capability allows network administrators to identify and categorize applications based on their behavior and protocol usage, enabling them to apply tailored security policies and quality of service (QoS) settings.

By recognizing different applications, FortiGate can prioritize critical business applications, restrict bandwidth for non-essential services, and block risky applications that may jeopardize network security. This level of granularity in traffic management ensures that the network operates efficiently, maintaining performance while minimizing vulnerabilities associated with unmonitored or unauthorized application usage.

The other options do not accurately represent the primary function of Application Control. While mitigating DDoS attacks is a core function of FortiGate’s security features, it is not specifically tied to application control. Monitoring email communication aligns more closely with specific email security solutions rather than application control. Conducting web filtering is also a different feature focused on blocking harmful websites and managing internet access, rather than the application-level insight that Application Control provides.