Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Fortinet for Global Cyber Threat Analysis and Reporting, and Managed Security Service Provider Market Leadership - Seite 2

Fortinet - Leading Provider to the MSSP Market
In the report, Frost & Sullivan states, "Fortinet has achieved a dominant position with MSSPs with its FortiGate line of high performance firewalls, next-gen firewalls and Unified Threat Management (UTMs). In Frost & Sullivan's recent ranking of over 60 network security platforms, the FortiGate line scored the highest possible ranking among North American MSSPs."

Hardware flexibility, operating system uniformity and a powerful multi-tenant management platform are core reasons that FortiGate product line enjoys high adoption by MSSPs. All of the FortiGate firewall platforms run the same operating system (OS). A FortiGate 60D running at a retail branch has the same OS as a multi-tenant platform running in the core of a telecom provider.

Fortinet's FortiGate firewall appliances are well suited to the needs of MSSPs as they provide a rich set of features and security controls. In addition to stateful firewall functionality, the FortiGate platform provides security services such as application control, intrusion prevention, antimalware, Web filtering, advanced threat protection, application control and more. Not only does service bundling within a single platform provide value to the MSSP (e.g., more services to offer its customer base), but also in managing these security services from a single management console reduces operational expense and support costs for MSSPs.

In addition to a common OS and a single pane-of-glass management platform, there are other steps that Fortinet takes to reduce "soft" costs. Fortinet's centralized management platform supports advanced plug-ins and APIs, which allows MSSPs to integrate customized portals for customers, and leverage automated provisioning and orchestration tools for large scale deployments.

"Fortinet is the leading vendor to MSSPs for a multitude of reasons, ranging from unbeatable performance, ease of management, flexibility, scalability, and of course, competitive pricing," said Stephan Tallent, director of managed security service providers at Fortinet. "This report further validates and affirms Fortinet's commitment to the MSSP market and our continual drive to innovate and execute on enterprise network security solutions."

Both reports can be found at: http://www.fortinet.com/resource_center/analyst_reports.html  

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