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Fortinet Introduces Over 350 New Features to its Security Fabric Platform | |
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 09:37:40 AM | |
FortiOS 6.4 Broadens the Fortinet Security Fabric, Enables Additional Integration and Automation SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Feb 18, 2020 John Maddison, EVP of products and CMO at Fortinet With the release of FortiOS 6.4, were continuing to build out the Fortinet Security Fabric to deliver automated workflows across multi-attack vectors and infrastructure. Combined with one of the most extensive alliance partner ecosystems in the industry, an industry-leading research and analyst team, and integrated security intelligence ecosystem, Fortinet delivers the most comprehensive cybersecurity platform on the market. News Summary Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the release of FortiOS 6.4, the latest version of its flagship operating system powering the Fortinet Security Fabric. With over 350 new features, FortiOS 6.4 introduces new automation, scalability, performance, and AI capabilities to deliver full protection across the entire digital infrastructure. Digital Innovation is Causing Increased Risk Digital innovation is a disruptive force that is transforming every single industry and allowing organizations to accelerate their businesses, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and provide better customer experiences. However, this disruption also brings increased security risks as organizations cope with the expanding attack surface, advanced threats, increased ecosystem complexity, and an expanding regulatory compliance landscape. Only a true cybersecurity platform can enable digital innovation if it delivers:
The Fortinet Security Fabric Enables Digital Innovation To address todays risks and deliver the industrys most comprehensive cybersecurity platform that enables digital innovation, Fortinet continues to enhance the Fortinet Security Fabric with the latest version of its operating system, FortiOS 6.4. The Fortinet Security Fabric is the result of almost 20 years of innovation, organically built from the ground up to be broad, integrated, and automated. Every element of the Fortinet Security Fabricfrom the next-generation firewalls to the access points and switches to the NAC solutionis engineered to work together, while also integrating with one of the industrys largest technology alliance partner ecosystems. Whats New in FortiOS 6.4 With version 6.4, FortiOS adds new features designed to support organizations digital innovation goals across the four key pillars of the Fortinet Security Fabric and FortiGuard Labs: Security-driven Networking: Secure and accelerate the network and user experience
Zero-trust Network Access: Identify and secure users and devices, on and off network
Dynamic Cloud Security: Secure and control cloud infrastructure and applications
AI-driven Security Operations: Automatically prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats
FortiGuard Labs: The Fortinet 360 Protection bundle delivered by FortiGuard Labs provides a complete package of operational, support, and security services to enable customers to easily deploy and benefit from the full power of the Fortinet Security Fabric and is optimized for SD-WAN deployments.
Fortinets Commitment to Leading Cybersecurity Innovation A cornerstone of the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiOS is the most widely adopted security operating system with over 5.4 million units shipped to-date. Fortinet is the only security leader to develop and build custom SPU technology to offer the best performance and cost value in the industry with a Security Compute Rating that ranges between 3 to 47x the performance of other software approaches. Each day Fortinets FortiGuard Labs use one of the most effective and proven artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems in the industry to process and analyze more than 10 billion events, sending actionable real-time threat intelligence to our customers. The combination of FortiOS, purpose-built SPU technology and AI-powered threat intelligence showcases Fortinets commitment to cybersecurity innovation and excellence. Supporting Quotes "The Fortinet Security Fabric allowed us to realize huge cost and time savings and significantly improved our security posture. We were able to reduce our budget for firewall, IPS, and IDS capabilities by 75 percent and reduce intrusions by 90 percent while also reducing staff time on remediation. Being able to run consistent security whether in the cloud or on-premises has given us a huge advantage. -Kenneth Compres, Information Security Officer at Hillsborough Community College Fortinets integrated approach to cybersecurity allows us to easily view and manage everything through a single pane of glass Its a real advantage when delivering value-added services to our enterprise customers. The Fortinet Security Fabric enables us to offer integrated, comprehensive security protection to improve our customers security posture and lower costs. -Erik Nordquist, Sr. Product Manager at TPx Communications With Fortinets Security Fabric, were able to offer customers integrated security across multiple environments for better protection against cyber threats. A number of our team members are NSE8 certified, showcasing the highest levels of proficiency in implementing the Fortinet Security Fabric, which further enables us to help our customers build their own comprehensive cybersecurity platform. - Jonathan Hollingshead, President at Business Communications, Inc. A cybersecurity platform, like the Fortinet Security Fabric, can reduce management, configuration, and orchestration overhead while establishing a stronger security posture when compared to a piecemeal approach. An increasing number of organizations are shifting away from point-products in favor of a platform approach that can scale with digital transformation efforts and allow security tools to see each other, share information, and be managed through a common interface. -Chris Rodriguez, Research Manager, Cybersecurity Products at IDC |