The data center has been going through dramatic changes with x86 server virtualization and public cloud service adaptation. The implementation of these technologies and services in the SDDC create security challenges in terms of traffic visibility and security (east-west traffic), end-to-end compliancy and management, and the orchestration of security in a very dynamic virtual environment. Fortinet's range of virtual security appliances for multiple virtual environments and the cloud provide scale-out performance, end-to-end visibility and compliancy in the private and hybrid cloud – all under a single pane of glass management.

Fortinet solutions provide the widest range of virtual security appliances in the industry, compatible with all major compute virtualization platforms and public cloud environments, such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft HyperV, KVM open source, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. These include FortiGate, FortiWeb, FortiMail, FortiSandbox, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and more. Specific micro-segmentation and SDN integration is provided via the FortiGate-VMX for VMware NSX environments and an integrated FortiGate product for Cisco SCI to provide automated security orchestration in the SDDC.

Organizations today cannot afford to choose between security and maintaining a high-performance business infrastructure. The extended enterprise needs proven security that won't compromise performance: from deep within internal segments, to physical and virtual data centers, to dynamic cloud environments.

Fortinet's Enterprise Firewall Solution delivers industry-leading security effectiveness with unmatched performance capabilities—through one operating system managed within a single pane of glass.

This consolidated architecture gives you an immediate responsive and intelligent defense against malware and emerging threats with an integrated security fabric that extends across your borderless network.

The FortiGate family of network security appliances represents the industry's broadest range of firewall platforms. FortiGates, interconnected with the Fortinet Security Fabric, form the backbone of the Fortinet Enterprise Firewall Solution.

Fortinet is the only company with independently top rated security components—from endpoint and access through data center and cloud—designed to work together as an integrated security fabric to provide true end-to-end protection. Our enterprise firewalls collaborate with endpoint protection, email and web application security, sandboxing, and other key offerings in the Fortinet portfolio, while allowing for open integrations (via industry standard API's) with third-party security products.

Not only are all Fortinet Advanced Threat Protection components powered by the leading security intelligence of FortiGuard Labs, they also leverage local intelligence dynamically generated by FortiSandbox and shared across the interconnected security infrastructure. This sharing automatically responds to the latest targeted attacks, continually improves an organization's security posture, closes natural gaps between multi-vendor point products, and reduces the time spent managing IT security.

The increase in frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks has taken a toll on security, compliance, performance, and availability. The number of organizations that have suffered a breach is growing rapidly and will continue to increase if organizations are not able to discover threats and respond to them more quickly.

Enterprise networks are seeing an evolution of their network environments, going from centralized control to distributed networks with the advent of mobility, and now becoming borderless with the rapid adoption of virtual and cloud solutions. To monitor risks, enterprises have both a network operations center (NOC) and a security operations center (SOC), but they don’t correlate or integrate the information they collect. But if a SOC and a NOC could share information, they’d be able to discover threats and initiate remediation much faster.

Technology and market trends are rapidly changing the way enterprises design local area networks, onboard clients, and enable business applications of every type, and this has implications for how network access security is planned, deployed, and managed. As a result, IT administrators are starting to recognize network access and network security can no longer be viewed independently and in fact are now dependent on each other.

Securing business communications, personal information, financial transactions, and mobile devices involves much more than network access control. It requires scanning for malware, preventing access to malicious websites, end-point integrity checking, controlling application usage, and much more.

On June 20, 2017 Gartner published the Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls). And for the 8th year, Fortinet has been recognized as a leader. View the report.

According to Gartner, roughly $12 billion will be spent on networking and network security each year for the next three years. This reflects the importance of solving the critical IT and security challenges facing growing small businesses and represents a major opportunity for Fortinet’s channel partners.

Of particular note, Fortinet enables you to assist small businesses seeking to:
Deploy enterprise-class security suitable for SMB
Simplify networks with end-to-end security and management
Meet tight SMB budget constraints

Small Office Technology Needs Are Increasing: To support employee mobility, many small offices are adding wireless and enabling BYOD technologies that have traditionally been confined to larger enterprises.

Small Businesses Are a Target: According to the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report, data breaches were more common in small than large organizations (25% vs. 20%, with 50% from size unknown).

Fortinet offers a wide range of Education Solutions to address the toughest challenges in the K-12 and Higher Education markets. With industry-leading High-performance UTM and NGFW Firewall products combined with other technologies like Wireless Access Points, 2-factor Authentication and Email Security Gateways, educators get the tools they need to deliver robust, reliable and secure network access.

Fortinet protects the most valuable assets of the largest financial services institutions across the globe. Our Financial Services team has identified five priority use cases where customers need to improve their cyber security effectiveness. We've developed architectures and solutions for Data Center Internal Segmentation, Branch/Virtual Office, Low Latency Trading Infrastructure, Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics, and Edge Security. Fortinet focuses on effectiveness, performance, and scale for security management and protecting critical business assets.