Fortinet uniquely enables the convergence of networking and security to strengthen your network's defences, 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.
With the explosion of vendors and devices, visibility across the attack surface is challenging.
Responding to issues as they arise does not address the whole problem.
It’s difficult to integrate disparate tools to create a holistic threat defence.
Misconfigurations can often be the root cause of an attack.
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.
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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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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-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.
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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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 defence of today’s highly dynamic environments while enabling better productivity and user experience.
Industry-leading enterprise security for any edge at any scale
Automation-driven network management
Protected Ethernet connectivity via Secure Networking convergence with FortiGate
AI-based insights for rapid analysis and remediation of network issues
Extends, ensures, and secures the network
High-performance wireless access points for optimal stability and secure connectivity
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, organisations need to develop a secure networking strategy that tightly integrates the organisation’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, organisations need consistent enforcement that can span and adapt to flexible network perimeters.
NGFWs should provide threat protection at every edge across the branch, campus, and the data center without sacrificing performance.
When it comes to a future full of bad actors using AI-based tactics, it’s critical for security and IT leaders and their teams to evolve their security strategies to address these sophisticated new AI-powered threats.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, By Mike Leibovitz, Christian Canales, Nauman Raja, Tim Zimmerman, 25 June, 2025
