Accelerate 2024
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief
Executive Officer at Fortinet“We founded Fortinet on the
principle of fortifying our customers’ networks by converging
networking into secure networking. To achieve this, we’ve spent the
past two decades focused on organically developing our solutions
around one operating system and investing in FortiASIC, our
specialized compute processors. Today, FortiOS is the world’s most
powerful, real-time network security operating system capable of
simplifying management across content, applications, users,
devices, data, and locations, and our proprietary FortiASICs
deliver unprecedented performance, lower costs, and reduced energy
consumption. Our dedication to over 20 years of organic innovation
uniquely enables 30+ networking and security functions to work
together, and we take great pride in enhancing the operating system
that has already set the industry standard with the release of
FortiOS 7.6.”
News Summary Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the
global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking
and security, today announced the latest version of its FortiOS
operating system and other major enhancements to the company’s
cybersecurity platform, the Fortinet Security Fabric.
FortiOS 7.6 empowers customers to better mitigate risk, reduce
complexity, and realize a superior user experience across their
entire network with new features spanning the following areas:
- Hundreds of enhancements in
FortiOS 7.6 deliver improvements across the Fortinet Security
Fabric in areas such as Secure SD-WAN, secure access
service edge (SASE), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), automation,
provisioning, remote browser isolation, and digital experience
monitoring (DEM), among other areas, all with flexible consumption
(SaaS or PaaS) options.
- GenAI for threat analysis
and product deployment: Building on existing Generative AI
(GenAI) capabilities for accelerated threat investigation and
remediation, FortiOS 7.6 integrates FortiAI (formerly Fortinet
Advisor) natively within Fortinet’s central data lake,
FortiAnalyzer, and its unified management console, FortiManager.
These integrations improve threat analysis and response and
streamline network and security operations, respectively. Expanding
FortiAI across the Fortinet Security Fabric facilitates faster
decision-making, helps detect and remediate incidents quickly, and
ensures organizations can easily adopt the technologies they
require.
- Comprehensive data
protection capabilities across the network: Centralized
data protection combined with enforcement points across the
Fortinet Security Fabric will enable more enterprises to adopt and
manage a complete data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. These
FortiOS 7.6 enhanced features ensure sensitive information remains
secure no matter where it resides within the hybrid network.
Additional updates to enhance the Fortinet Security Fabric
include:
- Endpoint detection and
response features added to Fortinet’s unified agent:
FortiClient, the Fortinet Security Fabric’s unified agent, will
integrate with full endpoint detection and response (EDR) to add
ransomware protection, behavior-based detections, and automated
response, as well as deeper visibility, control, and ZTNA remote
access capabilities. Fortinet delivers a unified agent that
includes VPN, ZTNA, endpoint protection platform (EPP), EDR, DEM,
network access control (NAC), and SASE to reduce agent sprawl and
simplify management across complex environments.
- More ways to combat the
cyber skills shortage: On top of GenAI, FortiAnalyzer now
includes options for out-of-the-box SIEM and SOAR services,
delivering broader data ingestion and automated playbooks to
streamline the adoption and expansion of security operations
(SecOps). Ops augmentation is already available with our robust
SOC-as-a-Service offering to assist SecOps, and we have now added a
Managed FortiGate Service to support network operations teams.
These services reflect Fortinet’s dedication to supporting our
partners as they grow their portfolios to reach a broader audience
and promote best-practice deployments everywhere. These services
specifically help our partners better overcome the ongoing cyber
skills shortage and streamline the digital transformation of their
end customers.
The Power of One Operating SystemFortinet’s
dedication to integrating its portfolio across one operating
system, coupled with its investments in custom ASICs, has yielded
tangible benefits for customers of all sizes across the following
areas:
- Firewall: FortiOS
started as a firewall operating system and excels at that function,
delivering orders of magnitude of performance and power efficiency
advantages when paired with our internally developed ASICs. With a
single OS across all FortiGate models, Fortinet’s custom ASICs
accelerate FortiOS functions to support 14 networking and security
applications, enabling a hybrid mesh firewall approach to
infrastructure security, protecting on-prem, remote, and cloud
environments with consistent security policies and management.
- Segmentation and
ZTNA: For managed devices, ZTNA controls check users
connecting to applications and data and segment application access
using the same FortiOS application gateway. Lateral movement of
cybercriminals and ransomware programs is further limited by
internal segmentation firewalls enabled by the high-throughput,
low-latency data center firewalls powered by FortiOS.
- OT/IoT/Edge
Security: Because FortiOS can control and protect wired
and wireless networks, this security can also seamlessly extend to
the edge, providing consistent protection for IoT devices, OT
networks, and other agentless devices.
- Unified SASE:
Fortinet’s global, scalable network, running FortiOS via worldwide
points of presence, protects the hybrid workforce and thin edges.
This network is also anchored by the industry-leading SD-WAN
capabilities built into FortiOS to improve user experience.
- AI-Driven Security
Operations: All of these scenarios are then protected by
Fortinet’s advanced AI-driven Security Operations, which are
enabled by the common ingestion of data, telemetry, and threat
information through our single data lake and the uniform
application of FortiOS across the Fortinet Security Fabric.
The Fortinet Security Fabric PlatformFortinet
supports customers with a platform approach to cybersecurity via
the Fortinet Security Fabric, which converges networking and
security through one operating system (FortiOS), one unified agent
(FortiClient), one management console (FortiManager), and one data
lake (FortiAnalyzer) to integrate and protect the entire digital
attack surface. It’s focused on three major enterprise pillars:
secure networking, unified SASE, and AI-driven security
operations.
The Fortinet Security Fabric is the result of over two decades
of relentless focus on the company’s platform vision and organic
product development and innovation. It spans more than 50
enterprise-grade products and services, including network firewall,
wired and wireless LAN, SD-WAN, SASE, SIEM, and EPP. This extensive
integrated product coverage, combined with open APIs and a deep
technology alliance partner ecosystem of over 500 third-party
vendors, ensures customers can start building a platform based on
what they currently have deployed and leverage the Fortinet
Security Fabric in the way that drives the most value for their
unique needs.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the FortiOS updates announced today.
- Read more about the Fortinet Security Fabric.
- Learn about Fortinet’s free cybersecurity training, which
includes broad cyber awareness and product training. As part of the
Fortinet Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), the Fortinet Training
Institute also provides training and certification through the
Network Security Expert (NSE) Certification, Academic Partner, and
Education Outreach programs.
- Follow Fortinet on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
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About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a driving force in the evolution of
cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our
mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and
today, we deliver cybersecurity everywhere you need it with the
largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products.
Well over half a million customers trust Fortinet's solutions,
which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most
validated in the industry. The Fortinet Training Institute, one of
the largest and broadest training programs in the industry, is
dedicated to making cybersecurity training and new career
opportunities available to everyone. Collaboration with
high-profile, well-respected organizations from both the public and
private sectors, including CERTs, government entities, and
academia, is a fundamental aspect of Fortinet’s commitment
to enhance cyber resilience globally. FortiGuard Labs,
Fortinet’s elite threat intelligence and research organization,
develops and utilizes leading-edge machine learning and AI
technologies to provide customers with timely and consistently
top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence. Learn more
at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard
Labs.
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