John Maddison, SVP of products and
solutions at Fortinet“The enterprise branch is undergoing
intense digital transformation and we’re seeing application
consumption models rapidly move to the cloud. As our customers move
toward direct internet access, they understand the growing need for
next-generation firewall capabilities and high SSL inspection
performance. To make sure customers realize the benefits of SD-WAN
without compromising security, Fortinet has evolved our advanced
SD-WAN features in the latest FortiOS releases. This focus on
secure SD-WAN is clearly resonating with the hundreds of customers
and partners who are taking advantage of Fortinet’s unique
combination of next-generation firewall and SD-WAN in the same
offering, managed through a single centralized controller.”
News Summary Fortinet® (NASDAQ:FTNT), a global
leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions,
today announced it has gained significant traction in the SD-WAN
marketplace by delivering a comprehensive SD-WAN solution that
provides both SD-WAN and security functionality in a single
integrated offering for distributed enterprise branches.
The growing appeal of SD-WAN technologies has caught
the attention of the IT world and many are realizing the benefits
of efficient cloud adoption, broad application visibility and
lowered operating costs. But without the right solution, the speed
and agility of SD-WAN can come at the expense of security. To
respond to this pervasive industry challenge, Fortinet produced the
industry’s first NGFW-centric approach to SD-WAN by tightly
integrating SD-WAN functionality into the FortiGate Next-Generation
Firewall. This approach produces a compelling solution that
combines the increased scalability, flexibility, simplicity and
cost savings of SD-WAN with industry-leading security
protection.
Hundreds of customers from around the world have already chosen
Fortinet for their secure SD-WAN solution. Amongst this group,
Fortinet has seen three distinct use cases emerge that tackle the
most difficult challenges in the distributed enterprise branch. In
response to customer feedback, the latest updates to the FortiOS
operating system have directly addressed these issues.
Use Case #1: Digital Transformation at Enterprise Branch
In the wake of digital transformation, enterprise
branch customers face a unique set of security challenges as cloud
adoption directly connects their network to the internet. In this
environment, security becomes increasingly important but also
increasingly challenging. To solve this issue, Fortinet’s secure
SD-WAN solution combines security and SD-WAN cloud adoption
features together in one solution on a single console to secure
SaaS applications and multi-cloud access from the branch. In this
environment, IT teams are able to map WAN resources directly to
business function, making the network more efficient and
responsive, but also making application awareness even more
important for the health of the network. Recent updates to FortiOS
allow IT professionals to choose from over 3,000 applications and
easily see how many applications are supported, the prioritization
of applications based on business criticality, and affords the
ability to look deep into individual applications in order to set
different policies for sub-applications. This level of granular
insight helps enterprises to better allocate resources to increase
productivity and reduce business costs.
Use Case #2: Reduce WAN OPEX Spending
While Maintaining High Application Performance As
bandwidth requirements increase and OPEX budget requirements grow
for IT, many customers are migrating away from MPLS and turning
toward SD-WAN to reduce OPEX spending. As customers adopt low cost
WAN connectivity, they often run into issues with application
performance. To address this issue, automated multi-path
intelligence, a key feature of FortiOS for SD-WAN, significantly
reduces this time by selecting the most efficient route for SaaS,
Voice over IP (VoIP) and other business-critical traffic through
the tracking of granular WAN path information, such as latency,
jitter and packet loss.
Use Case #3: Consolidation of Networking and Security
Without an integrated solution, IT staff is required
to manage both SD-WAN optimization functions and security functions
using two different interfaces. This separation of network and
security operations is not only labor-intensive, it also makes it
difficult to tie things like traditionally network-centric issues
such as performance and functionality to critical security and data
inspection. To solve this issue, Fortinet has simplified monitoring
of SD-WAN deployments with a single-pane-of-glass view for
centralized management, configuration and monitoring tools for both
SD-WAN and security. As the leader in the enterprise firewall, as
well as UTM market, Fortinet has a long history of understanding
the needs of our customers from both a security and networking
perspective. Fortinet is uniquely positioned to provide a
comprehensive secure SD-WAN solution that consolidates several
point products at the branch, including routing, WAN optimization,
SD-WAN and security elements, into a single device.
Fortinet takes a customer- and partner-centric approach to
improving its SD-WAN functionality and allowing customers to
rapidly adopt cloud applications while keeping security a top
priority. Through recent updates to the FortiOS operating system
that make SD-WAN a native component of the Fortinet Security Fabric
and the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, Fortinet gives
customers the right tools for undergoing digital transformation
without the security risks inherent in other solutions that don’t
take a security-first approach. Three distinct use cases and
hundreds of satisfied customers prove that Fortinet has the
security and networking expertise to tackle the industry’s toughest
challenges in implementing SD-WAN.
Supporting Quotes
“As the largest group of supermarket chains in The Netherlands
with more than 1,000 branches and 10 datacenters, we
faced a significant challenge in adopting digital transformation
and achieving cloud application performance without compromising on
security. We chose Fortinet’s cutting edge secure SD-WAN technology
to allow us to centrally manage our networking and
security solutions, while also providing SSL inspection for a
seamless WAN transformation. We like the simplicity of extending
Fortinet’s SD-WAN solution to include LAN at each of our stores and
the ability to manage all WAN and LAN devices through a
single-pane-of-glass. This capability was a gamechanger, providing
us with both flexibility and security at each layer.-- Arjen van
Dam, manager, IT at Superunie
“As a leader in the distributed enterprise market, Fortinet
deeply understands the needs of customers looking to
deploy the newest WAN initiatives, such as SD-WAN. Fortinet has
been evolving SD-WAN as an industry-leading feature of its
FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall to offer a compelling
combination of SD-WAN and security in a single appliance. This
significantly increases business agility, simplifies
customer deployment and provides single-pane-of-glass management
for better visibility and protection.” -- Zeus Kerravala, ZK
Research
“As a Fortinet Partner of the Year and leading supplier of
technology solutions, we work closely with Fortinet to provide
strategic and technical guidance to our customers undergoing
digital transformation. Fortinet’s secure SD-WAN solution provides
increased scalability, flexibility, simplicity and cost savings in
a single appliance that marries SD-WAN and security. Fortinet’s
security-first approach to SD-WAN is backed by third-parties and
independent tests as a leading solution, making Fortinet the right
choice for customers undergoing digital transformation.”-- Brian
Heurter, VP sales at Integra Data Systems “Fortinet understands the
unique challenges we’re facing in education to deliver meaningful
learning opportunities to students while maintaining the necessary
levels of security. Many vendors approach the SD-WAN space from a
network-centric standpoint, but Fortinet takes a security-first
perspective and combines it with strong network capabilities. In
our environment, it’s imperative for us to protect student and
staff personal information and Fortinet’s stronger security play
was a key factor in our decision process.”-- John McCormick,
associate chief information officer, Upper Grand District School
Board
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Fortinet’s secure SD-WAN solutions. Also read
more about realizing the full potential of secure SD-WAN on our
blog.
- Download our Network Leaders Guide to Secure SD-WAN.
- Read more about the Fortinet Security Fabric and
the Third Generation of Network Security.
- Visit Fortinet’s FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall
homepage to learn more about this advanced security solution.
- Sign up for the weekly FortiGuard Threat Intelligence
Briefs or the FortiGuard Threat Intelligence Service.
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About Fortinet
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provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet
empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across
the expanding attack surface and the power to take on
ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network
- today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric
architecture can deliver security features without compromise to
address the most critical security challenges, whether in
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than 350,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.
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