Orange Business Services, a global network-native digital services company, and Nasdaq-listed Fortinet, automated cybersecurity solutions provider, are partnering to deliver a disruptive approach to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) by integrating Fortinet’s security-driven networking technologies into the Orange telco cloud infrastructure. This reinforces security and networking convergence, while optimising performance regardless of the user’s location.
“Enterprise needs have evolved; technologies are driving business growth and innovations are requiring fully ‘secured digital infrastructures’ in order to connect people and machine to applications available on several cloud networks. This new partnership with Fortinet demonstrates our commitment to bringing new thinking to network strategy for our EMEAR customers and allows us to converge the network and security in the cloud seamlessly through our SASE approach, as more of our customers move rapidly to the cloud,” Franck Morales, vice president of connectivity at Orange Business Services told ITP.net.
Digital acceleration, the move to “work from anywhere,” and the adoption of cloud connectivity have altered how network infrastructures and security need to be constructed. SASE converges networking and security in the cloud, supporting dynamic, secure internet access as part of a “work-from-anywhere” strategy to connect everyone and everything using cloud-based applications. SASE extends security capabilities, allowing all types of enterprises to take advantage of zero-trust network access and firewall-as-a-service, for example, regardless of location.
This next chapter in the Orange-Fortinet partnership, which has also yielded Flexible SD-WAN based on Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, provides the foundation for cloud-native transformations at scale for business agility and resilience.
“Digital acceleration and the shift to support ‘work from anywhere’ is driving the hybrid convergence of networking and security to enable zero trust across all edges. Expanding upon our longstanding relationship with Orange, we’re pleased to further integrate our Security-driven Networking technology into the Orange infrastructure to enable a converged networking and security solution, unmatched in terms of visibility, management capabilities, resilience, and user experience,” said John Maddison, EVP of products and CMO, Fortinet.
