SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet
"Fortinet continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in converging networking and security to enable customers and partners to safely and effectively compete in today's digital marketplace. Networking and security can no longer be treated as separate strategies. The present and foreseeable future consists of hybrid networks, and only with security at their core will those networks be able to adapt at speed and scale to secure every edge. Over 20 years of prioritizing organic research and development have positioned Fortinet as the driving force behind cybersecurity innovation. And now, with the release of FortiOS 7.2, Fortinet is setting new industry standards for converged networking and security."
News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the release of FortiOS 7.2, the latest upgrades to its flagship operating system and the foundation of the Fortinet Security Fabric. Over 300 new features enhance Fortinet's ability to converge security at every network edge combined with the performance and scale needed to detect and prevent threats across an organization's entire infrastructure.
Hybrid Networks and Accelerating Business Demands
Growing and scaling digital business while protecting a distributed infrastructure has never been more critical or complex. Networks today are hybrid by design – spread across on-premises, multiple edges, and the cloud – and they will continue to be the enabler for digital acceleration. According to Brandon Butler, Research Manager, Enterprise Networks at IDC, "The network is foundational for enabling the secure, scalable, and efficient use of cloud, edge, and IoT applications. Hybrid networks are needed for enterprises today, allowing applications and workflows to move seamlessly across every edge so critical information can be accessed by any user or device from any location. Combined management of advanced networking and security becomes a powerful enabler of digital acceleration.”
FortiOS 7.2 delivers new AI-powered FortiGuard security services, enhancements to the only converged networking and security platform available today, and further consolidation of security point products across networks, endpoints, and clouds.
These enhancements enable FortiOS to further protect today's hybrid networks in the face of an escalating threat landscape while also helping organizations achieve digital acceleration.
New AI-Powered FortiGuard Security Services
Fortinet's rich suite of FortiGuard Security Services is powered by FortiGuard Labs and natively integrated across the Fortinet Security Fabric to deliver automated and coordinated security in real-time. FortiGuard services are powered by trusted machine learning and artificial intelligence models informed by unified data sets feeding from networks, endpoints, and clouds, rich independent research, and comprehensive industry collaboration. In FortiOS 7.2, Fortinet expands its offering with multiple new services and enhancements to stop known and unknown threats faster and more effectively than ever before.
New services include:
Key enhancements to existing services include:
Enhancements to the Only Converged Networking and Security Platform Available Today
Fortinet's security-driven networking approach is uniquely designed for modern networking technologies across all network edges. This ensures that AI-powered security functions can be built-in to enable secure digital acceleration. FortiOS 7.2 further unifies the convergence of networking and security across NGFW, SD-WAN, LAN Edge, 5G, ZTNA, and more:
Further Consolidation of Security Point Products Across Networks, Endpoints, and Clouds
Fortinet continues to expand the Fortinet Security Fabric's ability to consolidate multiple security point products across an ever-expanding attack surface.
Fortinet Technology Leadership in the Security Industry
Fortinet is the industry’s leading cybersecurity innovator and delivers the most extensive portfolio of security solutions in the world, backed by years of organic innovation developed in our major R&D centers in North America and Canada. With 1,255 awarded patents, Fortinet has nearly 3x more patents than comparable cybersecurity companies. In addition, with a commitment to third-party validation, Fortinet submits its products for impartial performance and effectiveness testing with the most prominent organizations in the industry, with consistently positive results.
Availability
FortiOS 7.2 is available now.
Join the FortiOS 7.2 webinar
Learn more about the latest networking and security innovations from Fortinet by joining the FortiOS 7.2 webinar on April 12.
Join Fortinet at Accelerate 2022
Fortinet is holding its annual Accelerate conference in digital format on May 10 – 12 (Americas) and May 11 – 13 (EMEA/APAC). Customers, partners, analysts, and media are invited to join online at no cost to hear about the latest updates in networking and security from Fortinet executives and industry experts.
Supporting Quotes
“In our industry, uptime and security are paramount. Whether you’re standing up new sites or managing security across the entire infrastructure, every little thing you can do to optimize and secure operations can have a massive positive financial impact. Investing in Fortinet has allowed us to integrate our networking and security into a single platform and simplify management across a dynamic IT architecture. Because of Fortinet’s continued enhancements to the Security Fabric and FortiOS, there’s no limit to how much we can securely scale in the future.”
– Minh Le, Chief Information Officer at Checkers
"Fortinet has consistently anticipated where the cybersecurity industry is heading and delivers technology innovation that allows us to help our customers meet and exceed their business needs today and far into the future. Fortinet's ability to deliver the most comprehensive converged network and security platform is a perfect example. And when combined with consistent enhancements to the Fortinet Security Fabric and FortiOS, it gives us incredible confidence as a Fortinet partner that we will be able to continue to support our customers with highly differentiated offerings that solve today and tomorrow's toughest challenges in networking and security."
– Tony Jaroszewski, Director Network/Security Specialists at AHEAD
"Enterprise environments have become increasingly distributed with applications now deployed across private data centers, multiple public clouds, and edge locations, while employees may work remotely, from an office, or both. However, maintaining consistent and secure connectivity between users and applications is difficult to do with siloed network and security tools. Whether they take a DIY approach or work with managed service providers or telcos to address this challenge, organizations are most successful when they deploy solutions that converge networking and security. Fortinet delivers a platform approach that addresses point solution sprawl and tightly integrates networking and security, no matter what type of IT architecture a customer has deployed."
– John Grady, Senior Analyst at ESG
Additional Resources
About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world's largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 565,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet's Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
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