Fortinet Delivers Unmatched Flexibility and Simplicity with New Enhancements to Its Unified SASE ...
Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the
convergence of networking and security, announced the addition of sovereign
SASE and generative AI (GenAI) capabilities to its robust unified SASE
solution. Fortinet Unified
SASE provides complete integration between Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution
and cloud-delivered
security service edge (SSE) under a single console for
seamless management, visibility, and security. The new updates announced today
further the company’s vision of delivering a comprehensive and highly flexible
unified SASE solution to customers.
“Many vendors today are packaging up fragmented SASE capabilities and
calling it ‘unified SASE.’ Fortinet is the only vendor with a unified SASE
solution united by one data lake, one operating system, and AI-driven security
that also offers customers unparalleled deployment flexibility. Not only are we
offering a truly integrated solution, but we’re also adding more flexibility
and simplicity with the introduction of sovereign SASE and new generative AI
features,” John Maddison, Chief Marketing Officer at Fortinet
Hybrid Networks Require a Truly Unified SASE Solution
Most SASE solutions
available today are fragmented, meaning they require many management consoles and
agents while providing limited visibility and security enforcement. This
complexity is expensive to maintain and creates gaps in security. Fortinet is
unique in its ability to create a unified SASE solution that is powered by a
single operating system, management console, endpoint agent,
and data lake while truly integrating SD-WAN and SSE. Fortinet Unified SASE
provides all core SASE features, the industry’s most flexible connectivity (including
access points and switches), and intelligent AI integrations with unified
management, end-to-end digital experience monitoring (DEM), and consistent
security policy enforcement with zero trust, both on-premises and in the cloud.
The Importance of Flexible Connectivity: Sovereign SASE
According to Gartner®,
“Buyers are increasingly demanding more options for data and cloud sovereignty,
including where traffic is routed, where it is inspected, and where logs are
stored.” This is especially true for organizations operating in highly
regulated verticals with sensitive data like finance, government, and
healthcare. New Fortinet Sovereign SASE provides a comprehensive SASE delivery
option that enables organizations to maintain local control over inspection and
logs. This ensures robust data privacy and compliance while offering enhanced
security and flexibility to large enterprises and service providers.
With Fortinet
Sovereign SASE, customers can determine how their data is routed and where
security inspections occur, whether to a data center owned by Fortinet, a
partner, or the customer, while ensuring their traffic is protected by
Fortinet’s full security stack.
FortiAI for SD-WAN Brings the Power of GenAI to Unified SASE
GenAI has emerged as
a critical tool to support IT and cybersecurity staff and enable them to make
better decisions faster. FortiAI, Fortinet’s
GenAI assistant, is now available for Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to manage and
orchestrate the entire SD-WAN infrastructure. This integration accelerates
and enhances Day 0 through Day 2 operations, including visual and configuration
assistance, consultation, and troubleshooting. Customers can now deploy and
manage their SD-WAN solutions quicker and more efficiently than ever before.
Continuous Innovation Delivers Advanced Features to Fortinet Unified
SASE
Fortinet is committed
to continuous SASE innovation and releases monthly updates so organizations can
address their changing needs and stay one step ahead of attackers. Recent
Fortinet Unified SASE updates include:
· Remote browser
isolation (RBI) can now be configured natively within the FortiSASE cloud-based
management console so organizations can isolate user web browsing traffic to
protect their sensitive data from web-borne attacks.
· Fortinet Secure
SD-WAN now promotes better network performance for on-demand full mesh
networks and self-healing features that rectify issues in real time when
building autonomous SD-WAN networks.
· Native SCIM support within Fortinet
Unified SASE streamlines management and operations by making users and groups
created on the identity provider directly available in the SASE portal. This
reduces the need for coordination between separate IT teams, simplifying
administrative tasks and enhancing efficiency.
· Universal ZTNA
updates include access support to any application from any location and an
application catalog that automates configurations for all ZTNA application
integrations, eliminating the need to individually configure destinations.
We believe this
dedication to innovation is why Fortinet was recently named a Challenger in
the 2024 Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE for the second year
in a row, a Leader in the 2023 Gartner
Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN for the fourth year in a row, and
a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge.
Learn More at the Fortinet Unified SASE Summit
As a part of our
commitment to SASE evolution, Fortinet is hosting a Unified SASE Summit on
October 10, “SASE Meets AI:
Transform a Secure Hybrid World.” Attendees will get an exclusive look at the future of SASE and how it’s
reshaping hybrid work security with insights from Fortinet customers and Google
Cloud. Additionally, attendees will also gain insights from Gartner experts.
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