Posted by Bangalore: Fortinet’s Open Fabric ecosystem has more than 400 technology integrations to its name. That makes it one of the largest and rapidly growing ecosystems in the industry, the company said.
Fortinet said it’s Security Fabric has reached more than 400 technology integrations in Fortinet’s Open Fabric ecosystem. It will further deliver end-to-end security with broad visibility and seamless management through integrated, pre-validated solutions.
“Fortinet features one of the largest ecosystems in the industry that extends the breadth of the Security Fabric beyond our own products, achieving a more holistic view of the IT infrastructure,” said Rajesh Maurya, Regional VP – India and SAARC, Fortinet.
“As a result of more than 400 integrations, customers benefit from improved security effectiveness, reduced complexity and simplified operations. Resulting in an overall greater ROI and comprehensive protection across their entire digital attack surface,” added Maurya.
The growing number of technology integrations are largely driven by Fortinet’s Fabric-Ready Partner Program, which was launched in 2016. This program enables strategic partnerships with industry-leading organisations. Allowing them to offer pre-validated solutions that provide advanced security and improved visibility across the entire digital infrastructure.
It provides program infrastructure, resources and tools for alliance partners to integrate with the Security Fabric, develop joint solutions and become part of the ecosystem. Fabric-ready technology alliance partnerships now span a wide array of technology areas, including cloud, OT, IoT, SD-WAN, networking and more.
“Fortinet’s integrated solutions combine the Fortinet FortiGate next-generation firewall virtual appliance with the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU to provide customers the benefits of security protection, performance and scale,” said Ami Badani, VP – Marketing, NVIDIA.
“As part of Fortinet’s Open Fabric Ecosystem, Nozomi Networks’ integrations with the Security Fabric eliminates network blind spots and answer growing demands for holistic security solutions that effectively span IT and OT,” said Andrea Carcano, Co-Founder and CPO – Nozomi Networks.
Removing Security Complexities and Gaps with an Integrated Platform Approach
With a highly distributed workforce today than in the past. The threat landscape has become more complex and the digital attack surface has become wider.
To meet such a highly complex security and threat landscape, many organisations are relying on IT solutions from multiple vendors. But since they work in isolation, security-related critical gaps evolves in the organisations that increase security risks as well.
Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in EMA’s Network Management Megatrends 2020 report indicated they use between four and 10 network management tools.
However, Fortinet through its Open Fabric Security – which is an open architecture and integrated platform helps organisations consolidate their solutions. This will enabled them with complete visibility and comprehensive security across every network segment and device covering whether it is hardware, virtual or cloud-based.
Through Fortinet’s Open Fabric ecosystem, the Security Fabric has more than 400 integrations, unifying an array of solutions that communicate and work together to detect, monitor, block and remediate attacks across the entire attack surface.
Key new partners who joined the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program in 2020 include:
- OT/IoT: Dragos, Medigate, Ordr, Radiflow, Network Perception, Industrial Defender and Asavie.
- Virtualization/Cloud: Arm, NVIDIA, NXP, Advantech, Guardicore and cPacket Networks.
- Networking: Equinix, AudioCodes, Megaport, PacketFabric and RingCentral.
- Threat Intelligence: Anomali, EclecticIQ, Sixgill and Bambenek Labs.
- Security Operations: Braintrace, Darktrace, Empow, HYAS, LinkShadow, PowerDMARC, RangeForce, SumoLogic and Vectra.
The Fabric ecosystem extends the Fortinet Security Fabric, and customers benefit from the following types of integrated ecosystem solutions:
- Fabric Connectors: Fortinet-developed deep integrations into technology partner platforms that automate operations, policies, and processes.
- Fabric APIs: Partner-developed Fabric API integrations for a broad range of ecosystem solutions to secure the entire digital attack surface.
- Fabric DevOps: Community-driven set of security automation and orchestration tools and scripts developed by Fortinet, partners, and customers.
- Extended Fabric Ecosystem: Threat intelligence sharing partnerships and other vendor technology integrations.
Customers can select from and leverage a broad array of integrated solutions to secure their infrastructure that fits best with whatever phase they’re in on their digital journey. The Open Fabric Ecosystem solutions extend the benefits of the Security Fabric, and are a testament to the openness of the Security Fabric and inclusive philosophy of the Fabric-Ready Partner Program.