Telefonica and Fortinet Announce Strategic Alliance Agreement to Offer Managed Security Services

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - June 15, 2016) -

News Summary:

Telefonica (NYSE: VIV), one of the world's leading providers of communications services and solutions, and Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, today announced a strategic alliance agreement that will add Fortinet's Security Fabric architecture into Telefonica's portfolio of managed security services.

• The agreement underscores Fortinet as a strategic security infrastructure partner to deliver solutions integrated with some of Telefonica's key managed security services, which include, the CleanPipes service, ElevenPath's FAAST persistent pentesting and virtual patching solution, and ElevenPath's Metashield Protector service.
• Fortinet is the security infrastructure provider used for all Telefonica's CleanPipes deployments worldwide today and will continue to be a part of the evolution of the service architecture.
• Telefonica customers will benefit from the combination of Telefonica's strategic security services and Fortinet's Security Fabric, which delivers pervasive and adaptive cybersecurity from IoT to the cloud.

Security Without Compromise Designed to Provide Peace of Mind for Customers

Increasing awareness of the cybersecurity risks facing businesses, a security talent challenge, and growing compliance enforcement are prompting businesses of all sizes to migrate risk out of their IT departments and into the hands of professionals.

While technology trends like IoT and cloud computing are blurring the edges of the network today, Fortinet's Security Fabric, combined with ElevenPaths' products and security services from Telefonica enables customers to benefit from a scalable, broad threat protection solution without compromising agility or performance. Telefonica customers can leverage highly advanced hardware and software, enabling direct communication between security solutions for a unified and rapid response to threats. In addition, the Fortinet Security Fabric, powered by the FortiASIC content processor and FortiOS security operating system enables customers to implement internal segmentation and other innovative security strategies to deliver comprehensive threat protection across the expanding attack surface.