Fortinet

Fortinet is a cybersecurity vendor that sells products, support, and services to small and midsize businesses, enterprises, and government clients. The company's products include unified threat management appliances, firewalls, network security, and a security platform called Security Fabric. Fortinet's services revenue consists primarily of FortiGuard security subscriptions and FortiCare technical support. At the end of 2021, Fortinet's worldwide product sales amounted to 38 percent of the company's total revenue and services 62 percent.

FortiSASE offers products featuring a variety of security capabilities, including secure web gateway (SWG), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), cloud access security broker (CASB), and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS). According to Fortinet, the company is the first vendor to provide a secure access service edge (SASE) solution through the integration of cloud-based SD-WAN connectivity with security service edge (SSE), supplying networking and security capacities from edge sources to remote users.

The FortiSASE platform has the following capabilities:

• Active solution of security issues and minimization of the total attack surface with a stable security system
• AI-based steering and dynamic routing via SD-WAN integrated into the user experience
• Cloud-delivered management and networking analytics
• User- and device-based tiered licensing that allows clients to transition to an operational expenditure (OpEx) business model

Fortinet’s Open Fabric Ecosystem is a large cybersecurity ecosystem comprised of technology alliance partners that facilitates collaboration between Fortinet and other technology companies and organizations. The aim of the ecosystem is to provide security solutions using Fortinet's proprietary Security Fabric platform for customers' digital infrastructures.

Fortinet’s open ecosystem is designed to bring the platform's benefits to the partners' solutions through the company's self-developed Fabric Connectors and to other partner solutions through custom Fabric APIs and DevOps tools. In addition, the ecosystem's open architecture and accessible integration interface are designed to enable the development of new solutions with the Security Fabric.

There are over 200 partners in the Open Ecosystem in a variety of industries, including cybersecurity and telecommunications. Notable partners related to the telecommunications industry include Ericsson, ENEA AB, Extreme Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, NoviFlow, Telco Systems, TelcoBridges, TeleBright, and Volli Communications.

Fortinet's Fabric-Ready Partner Program focuses on fostering the community of technology alliance partners to enable complementary solutions in the Open Fabric Ecosystem. Because solutions developed within the program are pre-integrated, time and resources related to deployment, operations, and support can potentially be managed more efficiently.