Fortinet, a global automated cybersecurity solutions provider, has been named as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. This means that Fortinet is placed in a higher position with the ability to execute and further the completeness of the vision.
"We’re pleased to be placed in the Leaders quadrant of the 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, something we feel is another strong indicator of Fortinet’s ability to deliver better user experience with consistent security for our customers," said John Maddison, Fortinet executive vice president of products and chief marketing officer.
More than that, Maddison recognized its recent success to the company’s security-driven network approach. Fortinet is the first vendor of Secure SD-WAN while the competition deemed SD-WAN as a siloed product.
“A few years back, while the entire industry was thinking about SD-WAN as a siloed product, at Fortinet we took a Security-driven Networking approach, combining networking and security to be the first vendor to deliver Secure SD-WAN," added Maddison.
SD-WAN, or software-defined networking in a wide area network, is a tool that will help the management and operation of WAN to be simplified through decoupling the networking hardware from its control mechanism.
Fortinet continues to drive innovation of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to deliver an organically developed solution that consolidates advanced routing, self-healing SD-WAN capabilities, and intuitive orchestration with the industry’s most flexible security options via integrated next-generation firewall or SASE-based cloud-delivered security. Fortinet’s dedication to SD-WAN innovation has also resulted in the industry’s most extensive and secure SD-WAN solution, able to be deployed across the home, branch, campus, and multi-cloud.
"We believe Fortinet will continue to disrupt the industry with solutions rooted in Security-driven Networking principles, next by delivering the most flexible security via SASE," enthused Maddison.
SASE (secure access service edge) is designed to help organizations in securing new distributed networks. However, as with any emerging technology category, there is still some uncertainty about what precisely a SASE solution means—and what technologies are included.
With SASE solution, it will help in ensuring that security is applied consistently across an entire security architecture, rather than deploying separate security components for their SASE deployment—which could create gaps in security policy enforcement and limit visibility.
Fortinet continues to be true to its commitment in empowering its customers' experience with complete visibility and control across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements today and into the future.
It was also just recently that the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAN Edge Infrastructure was awarded to Fortinet due to its efforts in delivering its user professionals Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution as one of the top SD-WAN solutions on the market.
Moreover, last month, the country's third telco player, Dito Telecommunity, announced that it will be partnering with Fortinet as their official primary cybersecurity provider.