Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Solutions to Protect Your Branch Connectivity

What Is Fortinet Secure SD-WAN?

FortiGate delivers fast, scalable, and flexible Secure SD-WAN on-premises and in the cloud. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN supports cloud-first, security-sensitive, and global enterprises, as well as the hybrid workforce. Our Secure Networking approach uses one operating system and consolidates SD-WAN, next-generation firewall (NGFW), advanced routing, and ZTNA application gateway functions.

Simplify Your Network and Security with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is foundational for a seamless transition to SASE and SD-Branch. It enables organizations to protect their investment and simplify operations along their journey to a zero-trust architecture.

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Is Foundational for a Seamless Transition to SASE

FortiSASE helps extend secure access and high-performance connectivity to users regardless of their geographic locations. FortiSASE delivers a full set of networking and security capabilities, including secure web gateway (SWG), universal zero-trust network access (ZTNA), next-generation dual-mode cloud access security broker (CASB), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), and secure SD-WAN integration. With a unified solution, you can:

Overcome security gaps
Simplify operations and enhance security and networking analytics
Shift to an OpEx business model with simple user-based tiered licensing

Ensure seamless, resilient, and secure access to private applications for a hybrid workforce

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Get End-to-End Visibility, Analytics, and Reporting to Accelerate Zero-Trust Initiatives

Organizations are embarking on zero-trust initiatives to deliver enhanced security postures across highly distributed environments. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, along with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, provides granular visibility into network traffic, analyze traffic data, and automate responses traffic data, and automates responses based on the results. This requisite functionality enables the acceleration of zero-trust initiatives.

FortiAI for SD-WAN Brings the Power of GenAI to Unified SASE

FortiAI, Fortinet’s GenAI assistance, enables IT teams to manage and orchestrate the entire SD-WAN infrastructure as part of their integrated cybersecurity solutions. This integration accelerates and enhances Day 0 through Day 2 operations, including visual and configuration assistance, consultation, and troubleshooting.

GenAI-assisted scripting
Generate underlay IPsec VPN configuration based on a network topology image
CLI, Jinja, and VPN advisor
VPN and IoT device assistant
Drill-down on issues, vulnerabilities
Validations, recommended actions and reporting

SD-WAN Networking Services

SD-WAN Overlay-as-a-Service

SD-WAN Overlay-as-a-Service is a turnkey service that provides simplified and rapid provisioning of interconnected locations securely.

Turnkey service: The SaaS, cloud-hosted model reduces hosting costs, management needs, deployment time, and overall expenses.
Continuous operations: Fortinet-managed, geo-redundant HUBs are included with the service.
Simple: A point-and-click interface requires minimal technical expertise.

SD-WAN Underlay and Application Monitoring

The SD-WAN Underlay and Application Monitoring offers comprehensive monitoring of the ISP link, path, and application performance. It is enabled by FortiManager and FortiGuard Labs’ database of hundreds of popular SaaS and cloud designations. This empowers IT teams to swiftly prioritize network traffic, efficiently address operational issues, and enhance user experience.

SD-WAN Features and Benefits

Application Resilience

Ensures the highest level of application availability and performance over any WAN transport

Integrated Advanced Security

Converges the most advanced NGFW and routing to deliver consistent security on- and off-network

Scalable, High Performance

Transforms and secures SD-WAN at scale with no performance impact thanks to our WAN ASIC

Multi-Cloud On-Ramp

Enables secure, fast connectivity and high performance to, in, and between cloud applications

Zero-Touch Provisioning

Enables large scale, faster deployment of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

Centralized Orchestration

Centrally manages deployments, configurations, and operations with visibility, analytics, and reporting

50%

Increase in IT-team productivity

300%

ROI over three years

SP5

Purpose-built ASIC

SD-WAN Use Cases

Transform WAN and security

Use one management console for SD-WAN, advanced routing, and NGFW controls to protect the entire digital attack surface.

Simply Secure SD-Branch

Simplify branch architecture with centrally managed, scalable secure SD-WAN and integrated NAC, WLAN, LAN, and LTE/4G/5G.

Optimize the hybrid workforce

Enhance the hybrid workforce with a comprehensive SASE solution by integrating cloud-delivered SD-WAN with security service edge (SSE).

Enhance hybrid, multi-cloud

Enable secure, seamless, faster connectivity to the cloud, in the cloud, and between clouds.

Predict app performance

Enable reliable user experience on any transport with rich routing and advanced WAN remediation for self-healing networks.

Achieve operational efficiencies

Automate design, deployment, and operation with a single pane of glass for networkwide visibility, analytics, reporting, and orchestration.

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