Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, recently announced new innovations enabling unified management and analytics across its secure networking portfolio. CIOs today must contend with highly complex, disparate environments, and Fortinet delivers game-changing visibility and enforcement across all secure networking elements, including Hybrid Mesh Firewall, Single-Vendor SASE, Universal ZTNA, Secure SD-WAN, and Secure WLAN/LAN. Commenting on this innovation, Vishak Raman, Vice President of Sales, India, SAARC and Southeast Asia at Fortinet said; “In the next decade, secure networking will overtake networking and emerge as the predominant market to support the immense processing power requirements of secure connectivity. Fortinet was founded over 20 years ago with the goal of converging networking and security into secure networking solutions. Today we’re deepening unified management and analytics across our secure networking portfolio to give CIOs unprecedented levels of visibility and enforcement across their entire environment—whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid of both.”
Secure Networking Expands with New Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Today’s networks are complex hybrid environments that extend across many edges, which is leading most organizations to shift to a secure networking approach that converges security and networking. An emerging component of secure networking is Hybrid Mesh Firewalls. According to Gartner, “Hybrid Mesh Firewall platforms enable security policy controls to be defined and enforced between workloads, and between users and workloads connected on any network in on-premises first organizations.” Gartner anticipates “by 2026, more than 60 percent of organizations will have more than one type of firewall deployment, which will prompt adoption of hybrid mesh firewalls.”
Because of Fortinet’s unique converged approach, we’ve already been delivering on the concept of Hybrid Mesh Firewalls to customers for years and are taking things one step further with unified management and analytics across not just Hybrid Mesh Firewalls but our entire secure networking portfolio.
Cut Through Complexity with Unified Management and Analytics Across the Entire Hybrid Network
FortiManager is Fortinet’s centralized management solution that covers the enterprise network across FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall deployments (both on-premises and in the cloud), as well as Secure SD-WAN, Secure WLAN/LAN, and Universal ZTNA. With today’s news, FortiManager now integrates with FortiSASE, Fortinet’s Single-Vendor SASE solution, making Fortinet the only vendor delivering consistent security, management, and analytics across the entire hybrid network.
Additionally, Fortinet is now introducing new updates across its secure networking portfolio and FortiOS 7.4, including:
- Hybrid Mesh Firewall for Data Center and Cloud
- Secure SD-WAN for Branch Offices
- Single-Vendor SASE for Remote Users and Branch Offices
- Universal ZTNA for Remote Users and Campus Locations
- WLAN/LAN for Branch Offices and Campus Locations