Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced seven new service providers – Convergia, Eastern Communications, Halo Global, Lintasarta, Ooredoo Qatar, PLDT, and Transtelco – that have added Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to their managed service portfolios.
The company’s industry-leading Secure SD-WAN solution enables MSSPs to deliver high-value security-driven networking services to customers, tap into new market opportunities, and grow their business by offering new services.
John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet, said,“Fortinet Secure SD-WAN empowers MSSPs with a Security-driven Networking approach through the convergence of networking and security to deliver value-added services that solve their customers’ biggest challenges, such as securing digital acceleration and enabling work-from-anywhere. Seamless integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric, the industry’s highest performing cybersecurity mesh platform, ensures MSSPs can easily grow their business with new and differentiated managed SD-WAN and security services.”
Growth opportunities
As the use of business-critical, cloud-based applications continues to increase, and due to an increase in remote and branch offices along with a workforce that requires work-from-anywhere capabilities, organisations need to adapt. Businesses are seeking to invest in modern networking technologies to deliver secure and superior user experience.
The cybersecurity skills shortage, coupled with increasing levels of specialisation required to manage a growing security infrastructure, means that the use of MSSPs is increasingly attractive to companies of all sizes. The company’s MSSP partners can help reduce risk and minimise the impact of cyberattacks for their customers by providing managed network, security and monitoring technologies to protect enterprise data, infrastructure, and users regardless of by whom, where, when, and how IT assets are accessed.
MSSPs are employing solutions that combine networking and security, and that are integrated with a cybersecurity mesh platform to provide them with superior quality of experience at scale, operational efficiencies, and secure dedicated internet access.
High-value services
Fortinet has continued to drive market evolution with security-driven networking solutions that deliver security effectiveness, cost, and performance with the world’s only ASIC-accelerated secure SD-WAN solution. This allows MSSPs to help build new services that offer the flexibility to accommodate different architectural requirements specific to MSSP environments including multitenancy, custom portals, comprehensive automation and orchestration support, centralised management and analytics, custom reporting, and zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) capabilities. Fortinet provides the tools for MSSPs to solve their customers’ challenges of securing their work-from-anywhere and digital acceleration needs via Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, to secure users, devices, applications, and edges everywhere.
Fortinet recently integrated its SD-WAN solutions with Microsoft Azure.
