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Convergence and Consolidation for Better Network Security Across all Edges

Fortinet uniquely enables the convergence of networking and security to strengthen your network's defenses, ensuring consistent protection across all edges in your network. This convergence provides comprehensive visibility, allowing proactive identification and threat resolution, automated security fixes, and seamless policy enforcement. Real-time insights into security metrics and device performance enable quick response to incidents, reduce vulnerabilities, and secure transactions end to end. 

Modern Network Challenges

Lack of Visibility

With the explosion of vendors and devices, visibility across the attack surface is challenging.

Manual Operations

Responding to issues as they arise does not address the whole problem.

Integration

It’s difficult to integrate disparate tools to create a holistic threat defense.

Consistent Configuration

Misconfigurations can often be the root cause of an attack.

Why Customers Choose Fortinet

Converged Network and Security Operating System

FortiOS is the foundation of the Fortinet Security Fabric and enables the convergence of security and networking. With FortiOS, you can achieve consistent user experience, common security policies, and visibility and control across environments, including on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and converging IT/OT/IoT infrastructure.


 

Elevated Network Management Experience

FortiManager delivers a streamlined single-pane-of-glass experience, offering unparalleled network insight. It extends robust management capabilities to the entire FortiOS-based networking ecosystem for consistent enforcement of security policies throughout the network, bolstering security and streamlining management.

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Automation and Integration

With FortiOS, Fortinet Security Fabric products are integrated and automated. Integration out-of-the-box eliminates the laborious task of piecing together and testing of numerous point products. Integration makes automation possible.

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Fortinet's ASIC chips, the CP9, the NP7, and the SP5

The Only Purpose-Built Proprietary ASICs

Fortinet’s ASIC-based security processing units (SPUs) radically increase the speed, scale, efficiency, and value of Fortinet solutions while greatly improving user experience, reducing footprint, and power requirements. 

AI-Driven Security Services

FortiGuard Labs is the driving force behind FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services. The services counter threats in real time with ML-powered, coordinated protection. They are natively integrated into the Fortinet Security Fabric, enabling fast detection and enforcement across the entire attack surface.

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Fortinet Secure Networking Is the Industry’s Only Converged Networking and Security Platform

Digital acceleration has led to a rapid expansion of attack surfaces and creation of new network edges, including LAN, WAN, 5G, remote workers, and clouds. Fortinet Secure Networking is the industry’s only converged networking and security platform. This convergence enables AI-powered defense of today’s highly dynamic environments while enabling better productivity and user experience.

FortiGate

Industry-leading enterprise security for any edge at any scale

FortiManager

Automation-driven network management

FortiSwitch

Protected Ethernet connectivity via Secure Networking convergence with FortiGate

FortiAIOps

AI-based insights for rapid analysis and remediation of network issues

FortiExtender

Extends, ensures, and secures the network

FortiAP

High-performance wireless access points for optimal stability and secure connectivity

Our Platform

To effectively secure your network, networking and cybersecurity must work together as a unified system as one holistic solution. Instead of focusing on networking or security separately, organizations need to develop a secure networking strategy that tightly integrates the organization’s network infrastructure and security architecture. This allows the network to scale and change without ever compromising security. To effectively defend today’s highly dynamic environments, organizations need consistent enforcement that can span and adapt to flexible network perimeters. 

Case Studies

Village of Schaumburg
Village of Schaumburg
It Takes a Village: How Fortinet Helps Keep the Village of Schaumburg Secure
City of Kimberley
City of Kimberley
Canadian Municipality Upgrades and Simplifies Its Cybersecurity Infrastructure with the Fortinet Security Fabric
Andrea Bocelli Foundation
Andrea Bocelli Foundation
Fortinet Supports the Andrea Bocelli Foundation’s Mission to Empower Future Generations through Secure Digital Learning
Murata Machinery USA
Murata Machinery USA
Lean Security Team Achieves 24x7 Monitoring and Response with Fortinet SOC-as-a-Service

Third-Party Validation

2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls
2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure
Forrester TEI Study: Fortinet NGFW for Data Center And AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services
2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls Figure 1. The figure ranks companies on their ability to execute and completeness of vision as of September 2022 on a scatter plot. Fortinet is in the upper right quadrant of Leaders.
Fortinet Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls

Fortinet has been recognized as a Leader in 13 consecutive years, and is positioned highest in Ability to Execute in this latest report.

FortiGate NGFWs, built on a single operating system, FortiOS, deliver the industry’s best ROI, provide AI/ML-powered threat protection, and support the convergence of networking and security. FortiGate enables businesses to build consistent and proactive cybersecurity across all locations, users and devices.

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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Figure 1. The figure ranks companies on their ability to execute and completeness of vision as of January 2024 on a scatter plot. Fortinet is in the upper right quadrant of Leaders.
Fortinet Recognized a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure
Fortinet announces that it was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure.
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The Forrester Total Economic Impact study demonstrates that the Fortinet NGFW for Data Center and AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services solution has a 318% return on investment, $10.55 million in savings benefits, and less than a 6 month payback period
Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study reveals 318% ROI and $10.6M in cost benefits achieved with the Fortinet Data Center cybersecurity solution.
In addition to a significant ROI, key results from the 2023 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting include improved networking and security performance, increased networking and security team efficiencies, end-user productivity gains, notable cost savings, and better sustainability.
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