Fortinet Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms

News Summary

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms and ranked #1 in the Secure Branch Network Modernization use case in the accompanying Gartner Critical Capabilities for SASE Platforms report, which Fortinet believes underscores its ability to converge advanced secure SD‑WAN, universal ZTNA, and AI-Powered threat protection into a single, flexible solution.

 

We are honored to be recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms and believe this recognition validates our commitment to organic innovation—building a unified, AI-powered platform that spans all SASE use cases. We believe being positioned in the Leaders quadrant in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms affirms our strategy of blending proven secure SD‑WAN, universal ZTNA, and AI‑powered threat protection under a single operating system, FortiOS, and one license for added simplicity and faster ROI.

- Nirav Shah, Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions at Fortinet

The Most Unified, Flexible, and Intelligent SASE Platform

This latest recognition, in Fortinet’s view, validates its unified‑platform strategy for secure digital acceleration. It follows Fortinet’s acknowledgement as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD‑WAN for the fifth consecutive year—where it was positioned highest for Ability to Execute—as well as being named a 2024 Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Security Service Edge (SSE), and a 2025 Customers’ Choice for SD-WAN and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).

Fortinet Unified SASE is built natively on FortiOS, delivering consistent security and user experience from campus to cloud to remote users through a single-vendor platform. Fortinet’s tightly integrated approach enables centralized management through one console and one agent, reducing complexity while streamlining policy enforcement and deployment. Fortinet offers over 160 points-of-presence (PoPs) and simplified licensing tiers to meet customer needs. Monthly product innovations, including AI-driven security workflows, keep the platform ahead of evolving threats and business needs.

Powering High-Performance Branch Experiences and Sovereign SASE at Global Scale

Fortinet believes the recognition in Secure Branch Network Modernization use case in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for SASE Platforms report also underscores the company's strength in helping customers replace legacy architectures like MPLS with a simplified, high-performance branch experience. Organizations can rapidly deploy new sites using zero-touch provisioning and centralized orchestration, significantly reducing the time and effort typically required to roll out branch locations. By converging networking and security at the edge, Fortinet empowers IT teams to deliver secure, scalable access with reduced operational overhead and lower total cost of ownership with seamless integration between secure SD-WAN and SSE that can be completed in minutes.

Fortinet continues to differentiate itself in a fast-growing market projected by Gartner to exceed $28.5 billion by 2028, with ongoing investment in its global SASE infrastructure, simplified packaging, and partner enablement. These efforts reflect Fortinet’s commitment to helping customers, channel partners, and service providers capitalize on the growing demand for hybrid work security, branch modernization, and the ability meet data sovereignty needs for regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and government.

Analyst and Customer Validation

Fortinet’s Leader position in SASE adds to the company’s broader recognition across the cybersecurity industry, including being acknowledged in 11 Gartner Magic Quadrant reports spanning security and networking. In addition to being named a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for both SASE Platforms and SD-WAN, Fortinet remains the only vendor recognized as a Customers’ Choice across all core components of SASE—SD-WAN, SSE, and ZTNA—according to Gartner Peer Insights™. Fortinet believes these distinctions further validate Fortinet’s Security Fabric platform strategy and its ability to unify security and networking across every edge.

source:
https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2025/fortinet-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2025-gartner-mq-for-sase-platforms

Fortinet Strengthens Code-to-Cloud Security with CNAPP Enhancements and Launches Expanded Solution Availability in AWS Marketplace

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced powerful updates to Lacework FortiCNAPP, making it easier than ever for customers to secure applications and workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The company also announced that the FortiAppSec Cloud service, FortiMail Workspace Security, FortiNDR Cloud, FortiSIEM, and Fortinet Incident Response services are now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that helps you find, buy, deploy, and manage software, data products, and professional services from thousands of vendors.

 

“Fortinet is committed to accelerating secure cloud transformation for our customers,” said Nirav Shah, Senior Vice President, Products and Solutions at Fortinet. “By making more of our services available in AWS Marketplace and enhancing leading cloud-native solutions like Lacework FortiCNAPP and FortiAppSec Cloud, we’re making it easier than ever for organizations to protect every cloud workload, application, and network edge.”

 

Delivering Smarter Protection, Faster Response and Remediation

 

Fortinet has enhanced Lacework FortiCNAPP to deliver even stronger protection for cloud-native applications across their entire life cycle. These updates reinforce FortiCNAPP as an industry-leading, cloud-native security platform designed to deliver faster detection, deeper insights, and simplified operations at scale.

 

• Real-Time CloudTrail Alerting – Enables near-instant detection of critical activity, such as compromised credentials or anomalous API behavior, by reducing AWS CloudTrail alert latency from 24 hours to under 15 minutes.
• Explorer (Security Graph) – Provides a visual, interactive view of attack paths and asset relationships, making pinpointing and investigating exposures, such as internet-facing vulnerabilities, easier.
• Agentless Windows Scanning – Supports agentless scanning for Windows workloads across any cloud, identifying vulnerabilities and secrets without requiring software deployment. This is ideal for expanding visibility and compliance with minimal overhead.
• Fleet Management – Delivers detailed visibility across large environments into agent inventory, health, and deployment status, helping teams monitor coverage and optimize cloud security.

 

In addition, Fortinet expands its cloud services for web applications and APIs by introducing new service bundles that include Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), CDN, and SoC-as-a-Service, in addition to its AI-powered zero-day threat detection, analysis, and remediation to protect web applications and APIs.

 

Full-Stack Protection Now Available in AWS Marketplace

Fortinet has expanded the availability of its cloud security portfolio in AWS Marketplace. This provides Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers with the ability to streamline the purchase and management of more Fortinet offerings within their AWS Marketplace account. By deploying solutions on AWS, Fortinet makes it easier for customers to deploy protection, streamline procurement, and apply AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) commitments.  

 

Services now available in AWS Marketplace include:

• FortiAppSec Cloud – Unified web application and API protection (WAAP) with web application firewall (WAF), bot management, API security, and DDoS mitigation
• FortiMail Workspace Security – End-to-end SaaS protection across email, browsers, and collaboration tools to stop advanced threats in platforms like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, and Teams with a built-in, 24×7 managed incident response service to accelerate threat containment and lighten the load on SOC teams
• FortiNDR Cloud – AI-driven threat detection optimized for distributed cloud infrastructure
• FortiSIEM – Scalable log management and incident response for complex environments

 

Fortinet has achieved the AWS Security Incident Response Specialization, which recognizes that Fortinet provides a streamlined incident response solution backed by AWS security response experts through AWS Security Incident Response.

 

The capabilities of Fortinet’s specialized cloud consulting and FortiGuard Incident Response Services teams help AWS customers strengthen their cloud security posture. Fortinet Incident Response Services are now available in AWS Marketplace, offering expert support backed by deep integration with AWS and the Fortinet Security Fabric. This underscores Fortinet’s commitment to supporting customers with end-to-end security expertise—from proactive risk assessments to prompt incident handling—backed by deep integration with AWS-native tools and FortiGuard threat intelligence.

 

A Strategic Shift toward Unified Cloud-Native Security

 

This launch reinforces Fortinet’s commitment to simplifying cloud security by consolidating fragmented, non-integrated solutions into a unified cloud security platform. Rather than relying on isolated point products, Fortinet delivers integrated solutions across application, network, and user layers designed to streamline management and scale efficiently in any environment.

 

By unifying capabilities like WAAP, network detection and response (NDR), security information and event management (SIEM), cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), and workspace security under a single vendor and deployment model, organizations gain comprehensive cloud protection along with greater speed, cost-efficiency, and operational clarity.

 

For those with cloud spend commitments and desire to optimize their cloud security investments, particularly in dynamic environments, Fortinet FortiFlex offers a flexible, daily usage-based licensing model that supports rapid deployment, elastic scaling, and seamless drawdown of existing cloud commitments, helping organizations protect what they need, when they need it, while only paying for what they use.

source:
https://www.megabites.com.ph/fortinet-strengthens-code-to-cloud-security-with-cnapp-enhancements-and-launches-expanded-solution-availability-in-aws-marketplace/
 

Fortinet report shows C-suite now owns operational technology cybersecurity

Fortinet report shows C-suite now owns operational technology cybersecurity

by Duncan Riley

 

A new report released today by cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc. has found that operational technology cybersecurity is gaining significant attention at the executive level, with corporate leaders increasingly taking responsibility for OT security strategies.

The new 2025 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report found that 52% of organizations now report that their chief information security officers or chief security officers are directly responsible for OT security, up from 16% in 2022. At the same time, 95% of organizations now say that OT risk now falls under broader C-suite oversight, up from just 41% two years ago.

More organizations were found to be formalizing their cybersecurity frameworks and integrating OT security into broader risk management strategies, resulting in incident severity declining. The report finds that operational outages with revenue impact dropped from 52% to 42% year-over-year, assisted by the adoption of advanced security practices, with segmentation, threat intelligence integration and vendor consolidation playing a critical role.

Mature organizations, those reporting higher security levels, were also found to be significantly less affected by common threats like phishing and are better able to detect sophisticated attacks.

Core to the improved outcomes were an increase in cybersecurity hygiene, improved training and intelligence-driven defenses. Business email compromise incidents have declined and the number of OT vendors used has shrunk, signaling a move toward simplification and operational efficiency. Fortinet notes that organizations using its OT Security Platform saw a 93% drop in incidents and up to sevenfold performance improvements through centralized control and integrated defenses.

The report additionally outlines best practices for OT security teams, including the need to establish full network visibility and protective controls. Other recommendations include implementing segmentation following ISA/IEC 62443 standards, integrating OT systems into SecOps and incident response planning, consolidating vendors through a platform-based security architecture and adopting OT-specific threat intelligence feeds powered by artificial intelligence.

Though the overall trends were mostly positive, the report does highlight one area of concern: legacy systems. With many organizations still relying on outdated infrastructure that was not designed with cybersecurity in mind, the systems are particularly vulnerable to modern threats. Legacy OT devices often lack native security controls and are difficult to update or patch, increasing the risk of exploitation.

Discussing the findings, Tim Mackey, head of software supply chain risk strategy at application security software provider Black Duck Software Inc. told SiliconANGLE via email that one of the biggest challenges with cybersecurity in critical infrastructure is the long lifespan of the devices.

“Something that was designed and tested to the best practices available when it was released can easily become vulnerable to attacks using more sophisticated attacks later in its lifecycle,” explains Mackey. “In effect, legacy best practices may not be up to the task of mitigating current threats, or worse those that might be deployed in the coming years. Since attackers know that critical infrastructure providers are measured in their up-time or service availability, once a device is compromised, attackers know that they have the luxury of mapping out and planning a very targeted attack rather than just being opportunistic.”

source:
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/09/fortinet-report-shows-c-suite-now-owns-operational-technology-cybersecurity/

Fortinet's Unrivaled Lead in IT/OT Security: A Strategic Play for Cyber Resilience

The convergence of IT and OT (Operational Technology) networks has created a seismic shift in cybersecurity demands. As critical infrastructure—from energy grids to manufacturing plants—grows increasingly digitized, the need for unified security solutions that bridge these domains has never been greater. Enter Fortinet, which has solidified its position as the clear leader in IT/OT convergence security, according to Westlands Advisory's third consecutive “Overall Leader” designation in its 2025 IT/OT Network Protection Platform Navigator report. This article explores why Fortinet's strategic positioning, technological innovation, and ecosystem dominance make it a compelling investment in a market primed for explosive growth.

Ask Aime: What will be the impact on Fortinet's stock price after securing its third consecutive "Overall Leader" designation from Westlands Advisory for IT/OT convergence security solutions?

Strategic Positioning: A Decade of Leadership

Westlands Advisory's 2025 report underscores Fortinet's unmatched strategic focus on OT security as a “key pillar” of its long-term vision. This commitment has driven 20+ years of innovation, product expansion, and growing market share. The report highlights Fortinet's ability to address urgent OT use cases such as asset discovery, network segmentation, and secure remote access—critical challenges for organizations managing legacy systems and modern digital infrastructure.

Ask Aime: Is it a good time to invest in Fortinet?

The firm's leadership is not accidental. By embedding OT security into its core strategy, Fortinet has built a platform that rivals cannot match.

source:
https://www.ainvest.com/news/fortinet-unrivaled-lead-ot-security-strategic-play-cyber-resilience-2507/

Fortinet Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for the Second Year in a Row

News Summary

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for the second year in a row. 

Fortinet believes this recognition reflects the strength of its industry-leading secure LAN edge portfolio, including secure networking solutions such as FortiSwitch and FortiAP. The portfolio is fully integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric and powered by a single operating system, FortiOS, to deliver converged networking and security.

 

Unlike traditional networking solutions that bolt security on after the fact, the Fortinet wired and wireless LAN portfolio was developed from the ground up with built-in AI-powered security and AI-assisted network operations. This convergence enables customers to simplify operations, improve performance, and extend security from IT into OT environments. We believe this is what continues to set Fortinet apart and make us a leader in this market. 

- Nirav Shah, Senior Vice President, Products and Solutions, at Fortinet

The Fortinet Secure LAN Edge portfolio addresses evolving customer needs and delivers key benefits, including:

• Pervasive, built-in security at the LAN edge to reduce cyber risk: Customers can deploy intuitive architectures with integrated security and AI-assisted management via FortiAI. Fortinet’s simplified licensing model avoids the complexity of managing multiple add-on subscriptions.
• Stronger IT and OT convergence through a unified platform: As organizations demand more of their networks while navigating staffing shortages and the cybersecurity skills gap, it becomes increasingly difficult for limited staff to maintain and secure their networks. Fortinet reduces this burden with a single platform approach that minimizes misconfigurations, eases day-to-day operations, and delivers AI-driven insights across Fortinet’s wired and wireless LAN solutions.
• Consistent capabilities and intuitive licensing to reduce cost and complexity: Fortinet’s wired and wireless LAN solutions provide enterprise-grade flexibility without trade-offs, reducing network risk and simplifying operations without inflating costs.

These capabilities are all delivered through a single operating system, FortiOS, which powers the Fortinet Security Fabric across the networking and security domains.

Customer Recognition

Fortinet has also been recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure as a Customers’ Choice for the seventh consecutive time.

“One of the big reasons we chose Fortinet is that their networking tools are built from the ground up with security in mind… With the Fortinet solutions, our network speed has been amazing. We used to receive frequent performance-related complaints from end-users, but we have heard zero complaints since we deployed the Fortinet networking solutions.”
- Ed O’Kelley, Vice President of IT, Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee

“FortiAPs have better availability than their competitors and easier, single-pane-of-glass management. We considered an unmanaged AP, but when we realized how tightly FortiAP integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric, the decision was a nobrainer. We expect the FortiSwitches and FortiAPs to work together to paint a very complete security picture for our team.”
- Scott Scherer, Chief Information Officer, Jersey Mike’s Franchise Systems, Inc.

source:
https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2025/fortinet-named-a-leader-in-the-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-wired-and-wireless-lan-infrastructure

Japan Communications Selects Enghouse Networks Core Messaging System to Power Its Neo-Carrier Strategy

MARKHAM, ON and TOKYO , June 24, 2025 /CNW/ - Enghouse Networks, a global leader in telecommunications and media solutions, in collaboration with Japan Communications Inc. (TSE Prime: 9424) ("JCI"), a pioneering mobile innovator shaping secure digital infrastructure and trusted mobile connectivity, today announced that its core messaging and security solutions have been selected as part of JCI's Neo-Carrier Strategy initiative.

As JCI announced on February 14, 2024, the company is progressing toward the launch of its Neo-Carrier service by May 24, 2026. Designed to operate independently from traditional mobile network operator constraints, the Neo-Carrier initiative integrates voice, SMS and data connectivity directly with MNO infrastructure. JCI has already begun building out its voice and SMS networks with the deployment of Enghouse Networks' SMS Core System. The System, comprising SMSC, SMS Firewall and Voicemail, marks a key milestone in the realization of its vision.

The SMS Core System, built on Enghouse Networks' distributed modular architecture, delivers industry-leading performance, high availability and cost-effective scalability as well as bulk messaging, anti-fraud protection and service creation. It also complies with all open standards that are defining the future of mobile messaging. With native integration into IMS networks, Enghouse's messaging solutions enable JCI to position its SMS Core System for evolution toward the next generation of mobile messaging services based on the ultimate Mobile Data Network.

"As we continue building the Neo-Carrier platform, it's important that every component meets strict standards for reliability and openness," said Greg Deickman, CTO of JCI. "Enghouse Networks' SMS Core System gives us a solid, standards-based foundation for SMS and voicemail, while also allowing us to move quickly and independently. It's a practical, future-ready solution that fits well with how we're approaching our next phase."

"JCI's Neo-Carrier approach is reshaping the future of secure mobile connectivity in Japan," said Thomas Kolb, President of Enghouse Networks. "We are honored that Enghouse Networks' technology has been selected to support this transformation with reliable, standards-compliant messaging infrastructure."

source:
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/japan-communications-selects-enghouse-networks-core-messaging-system-to-power-its-neo-carrier-strategy-853669353.html
 

Fortinet strengthens Code-to-Cloud Security with CNAPP enhancements and launches expanded solution availability in AWS Marketplace

COMPANY NEWS: New Lacework FortiCNAPP innovations and expanded solution availability in AWS Marketplace accelerate full application life-cycle protection and threat detection and response.

Fortinet®, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, has announced powerful updates to Lacework FortiCNAPP, making it easier than ever for customers to secure applications and workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The company also announced that the FortiAppSec Cloud service, FortiMail Workspace Security, FortiNDR Cloud, FortiSIEM, and Fortinet Incident Response services are now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that helps you find, buy, deploy, and manage software, data products, and professional services from thousands of vendors.

Nirav Shah, senior vice president, products and solutions, Fortinet, said, “Fortinet is committed to accelerating secure cloud transformation for our customers. By making more of our services available in AWS Marketplace and enhancing leading cloud-native solutions like Lacework FortiCNAPP and FortiAppSec Cloud, we’re making it easier than ever for organisations to protect every cloud workload, application, and network edge.”

Delivering smarter protection, faster response and remediation

Fortinet has enhanced Lacework FortiCNAPP to deliver even stronger protection for cloud-native applications across their entire life cycle. These updates reinforce FortiCNAPP as an industry-leading, cloud-native security platform designed to deliver faster detection, deeper insights, and simplified operations at scale.

• Real-time CloudTrail Alerting – Enables near-instant detection of critical activity, such as compromised credentials or anomalous API behaviour, by reducing AWS CloudTrail alert latency from 24 hours to under 15 minutes.
• Explorer (Security Graph) – Provides a visual, interactive view of attack paths and asset relationships, making pinpointing and investigating exposures, such as internet-facing vulnerabilities, easier.
• Agentless Windows scanning – Supports agentless scanning for Windows workloads across any cloud, identifying vulnerabilities and secrets without requiring software deployment. This is ideal for expanding visibility and compliance with minimal overhead.
• Fleet management – Delivers detailed visibility across large environments into agent inventory, health, and deployment status, helping teams monitor coverage and optimise cloud security.

In addition, Fortinet expands its cloud services for web applications and APIs by introducing new service bundles that include Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), CDN, and SoC-as-a-Service, in addition to its AI-powered zero-day threat detection, analysis, and remediation to protect web applications and APIs.

Full-stack protection now available in AWS Marketplace

Fortinet has expanded the availability of its cloud security portfolio in AWS Marketplace. This provides Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers with the ability to streamline the purchase and management of more Fortinet offerings within their AWS Marketplace account. By deploying solutions on AWS, Fortinet makes it easier for customers to deploy protection, streamline procurement, and apply AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) commitments. 

Services now available in AWS Marketplace include:

• FortiAppSec Cloud – Unified web application and API protection (WAAP) with web application firewall (WAF), bot management, API security, and DDoS mitigation
• FortiMail Workspace Security – End-to-end SaaS protection across email, browsers, and collaboration tools to stop advanced threats in platforms like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, and Teams with a built-in, 24x7 managed incident response service to accelerate threat containment and lighten the load on SOC teams
• FortiNDR Cloud – AI-driven threat detection optimised for distributed cloud infrastructure
• FortiSIEM – Scalable log management and incident response for complex environments

Fortinet has achieved the AWS Security Incident Response Specialisation, which recognises that Fortinet provides a streamlined incident response solution backed by AWS security response experts through AWS Security Incident Response.

The capabilities of Fortinet’s specialised cloud consulting and FortiGuard Incident Response Services teams help AWS customers strengthen their cloud security posture. Fortinet Incident Response Services are now available in AWS Marketplace, offering expert support backed by deep integration with AWS and the Fortinet Security Fabric. This underscores Fortinet’s commitment to supporting customers with end-to-end security expertise—from proactive risk assessments to prompt incident handling—backed by deep integration with AWS-native tools and FortiGuard threat intelligence.

A strategic shift toward unified cloud-native security

This launch reinforces Fortinet's commitment to simplifying cloud security by consolidating fragmented, non-integrated solutions into a unified cloud security platform. Rather than relying on isolated point products, Fortinet delivers integrated solutions across application, network, and user layers designed to streamline management and scale efficiently in any environment.

By unifying capabilities like WAAP, network detection and response (NDR), security information and event management (SIEM), cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), and workspace security under a single vendor and deployment model, organisations gain comprehensive cloud protection along with greater speed, cost-efficiency, and operational clarity.

For those with cloud spend commitments and desire to optimise their cloud security investments, particularly in dynamic environments, Fortinet FortiFlex offers a flexible, daily usage-based licensing model that supports rapid deployment, elastic scaling, and seamless drawdown of existing cloud commitments, helping organisations protect what they need, when they need it, while only paying for what they use.

source:
https://itwire.com/guest-articles/company-news/fortinet-strengthens-code-to-cloud-security-with-cnapp-enhancements-and-launches-expanded-solution-availability-in-aws-marketplace.html