Fortinet is a Leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for enterprise network firewalls

Fortinet, the global high-performance cybersecurity solutions provider, has been recognised as a Leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls*. The report evaluated Fortinet’s Security Fabric, its ‘completeness of vision’ and ‘ability to execute’ as factors for the placement in the Magic Quadrant.

One year ago, Fortinet forever changed the way enterprises look at cybersecurity with its Security Fabric vision to deliver a holistic and adaptive architecture capable of defending the entire infrastructure, so they can best compete in the rapidly evolving digital economy. Fortinet’s FortiGate enterprise firewalls are central to the Fortinet Security Fabric – engineered to unify and automate multilayered response to threats in addition to delivering superior Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) capabilities. FortiGate enterprise firewalls deliver the scale, automation, and performance needed to protect networks from the edge to the data centre and from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the cloud.

Independent evaluation and market analysis conducted by firms like Gartner are critical to help businesses determine the best vendors to protect their critical data and assets against an increasingly hostile threat landscape.

Ken Xie, founder, Chairman of the board and CEO at Fortinet said, “Cybersecurity is a very dynamic space. Customer requirements keep evolving, the attack surface is growing as mobile devices, cloud computing and IoT is used in corporate networks, and the threat landscape is getting more sophisticated and automated. Just over a year ago, we launched our Fortinet Security Fabric technology vision to deliver an architectural approach to security that is specifically designed to see and respond to threats in real time, automatically adapt to distributed networks and provide the performance needed to keep up with growing data and user demands. We believe that Gartner’s recognition of Fortinet as a leader in its Enterprise Firewall Magic Quadrant is a testament to the successful execution and market adoption of our Security Fabric vision.”

In order to deliver a truly integrated Security Fabric, Fortinet developed its universal security operating system, invested in the development of sophisticated security processors, provided Security Fabric APIs to integrate third-party security solutions and built threat intelligence infrastructure. The combination of these innovations enables Fortinet to deliver an integrated security ecosystem that ties together security at the perimeter, in the data centre, on the campus, in the cloud, across internal segments, at branch offices, and spanning IoT and end user devices.

Source: Fortinet infographic. What customers say about Fortinet on Gartner Peer Insights.

More than 310,000 customers trust Fortinet solutions to deliver the broadest, most powerful and highly automated security to defend their entire attack surfaces. FortiGate Enterprise Firewall customers have provided 288 perfect five-star reviews and 498 total reviews on Gartner Peer Insights – compared with the 418 reviews for the next 10enterprise firewall vendors combined as of July 12, 2017**.

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*Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, Adam Hils, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Rajpreet Kaur and Greg Young, July 2017

**Peer Insights reviews as of July 12, 2017. Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.