Fortinet Expands its SASE Solution to Bring Cloud-Delivered Enterprise-Grade Protection to Microbranches

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

John Maddison, Chief Marketing Officer and EVP, Product Strategy at Fortinet

“Fortinet is committed to consistently delivering SASE innovations, which is why more organizations are choosing Fortinet to secure and manage their complex hybrid environments and empower hybrid work. With today’s news, customers will be able to leverage cloud-delivered security at their microbranches, benefit from enhanced data loss prevention, and measure digital experience end to end.”

News Summary

® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced new enhancements to its industry-leading single-vendor SASE offering. already protects the hybrid workforce via a unified agent and includes SD-WAN integration for the branch, and today’s news solidifies FortiSASE as the most comprehensive offering on the market.

What’s New?

SASE for microbranches and IoT/OT devices: FortiSASE now includes expanded integrations within the Fortinet WLAN portfolio to further support organizations securing microbranches and related devices. intelligently offload traffic from microbranches to a SASE point of presence (POP) for comprehensive security inspection at scale for all devices, including and devices. This integration also means the Fortinet WLAN portfolio can be managed by the same simple, cloud-based management console customers already use for FortiSASE. All of these updates complement Fortinet’s existing support for users at the location and present organizations with a new approach to cloud-based security by extending enterprise-grade protections, such as sandboxing, intrusion prevention system, and URL filtering, to microbranches without additional appliances or services.

Enhanced data loss prevention (DLP) service: As a part of its cloud-delivered security services, FortiSASE includes the FortiGuard powered to protect sensitive data across the entire hybrid environment. This service now includes a wider range of data identifiers, file types, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, as well as advanced data matching techniques to prevent inadvertent data leaks. By continuously enhancing DLP, Fortinet provides organizations with deep insights into their cloud applications and tools to effectively counter new threats.

End-to-end digital experience monitoring (DEM): Fortinet’s DEM offering integrates with FortiSASE to provide insights across users, Fortinet global SASE POPs, and the performance of SaaS applications, including WebEx, Office365, and Dropbox, for comprehensive network and SaaS application monitoring. Additionally, this integration offers endpoint monitoring to deliver end-to-end visibility that empowers IT teams with the information they need to reduce resolution times and ensure a positive user experience.

The industry’s most comprehensive SASE solution

Backed by , Fortinet’s SASE solution provides unified security, simplified management, and end-to-end DEM by seamlessly converging cloud-delivered security, including , , and Firewall-as-a-Service, and networking capabilities via . It also includes for robust secure access to and from the internet, privately hosted applications, and SaaS applications.

Fortinet was recently named a Challenger in the . This was the first Magic Quandrant of its kind, and Fortinet was one of only eight vendors named. Additionally, Forrester named , which evaluates the 10 most significant solutions.

Supporting Quotes

“Highly distributed application environments and hybrid work initiatives create significant challenges for organizations trying to provide secure connectivity. The increased complexity and risk of these environments are driving the need for more comprehensive SASE solutions. Fortinet understands these challenges and has responded by adding new capabilities beyond its unified management for SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security. It now offers greater protection to microbranches by integrating with WLAN, as well as adding DEM, and providing enhanced DLP to protect hybrid workers and IoT/OT devices.” – Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE, By Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Neil MacDonald, Nat Smith, Charlie Winckless, 16 August 2023.

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