Fortinet Now Recognized in 8 Separate Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Reports

Like any organization continuously striving to deliver the most impactful solutions for customers, Fortinet is proud and grateful whenever we are recognized in important industry analyst reports. We see it as confirmation that we’re a cybersecurity trailblazer moving in the right direction. Needless to say, Fortinet is delighted to be named a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE).

With this news, Fortinet has been acknowledged in eight separate Magic Quadrant reports, including reports for network firewall, SD-WAN, single-vendor SASE, SSE, enterprise wired and wireless LAN, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint protection platform, and access management. We believe this continued recognition is a testament to our unique approach of converging networking and security through a single operating system (FortiOS) and cybersecurity platform (the Security Fabric).

Regarding our latest recognition, this is the first time Fortinet has achieved a placement in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE). We believe this result is due in part to the comprehensive capabilities and execution of our SSE solution, FortiSASE. It delivers cutting-edge, AI-powered cloud security with the industry’s most flexible connectivity, so organizations have a variety of ways to access its features, whether they need a unified agent, protection for agentless devices, or seamless integration with access points or SD-WAN.

AI-Powered, Cloud-Delivered Security to Protect the Hybrid Network

FortiSASE includes a high-performance, scalable cloud network along with top-tier SSE components: Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), data loss protection (DLP), universal zero-trust network access (ZTNA), and sandboxing.

It not only ensures the utmost protection for work-from-anywhere (WFA) users, whether they are accessing the web, corporate applications, or SaaS applications, but also secures thin-edge locales via Fortinet Access Points or extenders.

No matter how customers leverage FortiSASE, they have unparalleled control and visibility because the solution includes a unified agent, unified management, and end-to-end digital experience monitoring.

Already a recognized player in the single-vendor SASE market, FortiSASE also provides a seamless onramp to a full-fledged single-vendor SASE solution by integrating with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN.

Secure Access for Users

IT teams struggle to deliver consistent security across their environments, especially to their hybrid workforces. They need to migrate VPN solutions and protect web browsing for WFA users, as the web is a top attack vector. Another pain point is the management of multiple security vendors (20+ on average in an enterprise environment), which leads to burdensome complexity and exposes their current gap in skilled IT personnel. FortiSASE addresses these pain points by blending sophisticated connectivity, advanced security, and unified management to connect and protect off-site users while lowering overhead and total cost of ownership (TCO).

The Fortinet Security Fabric Platform

FortiSASE is an element of the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, Fortinet’s unified cybersecurity platform that converges networking and security through one operating system (FortiOS), one unified agent (FortiClient), one management console (FortiManager), and one data lake (FortiAnalyzer). This approach integrates and protects the entire digital attack surface to improve security, reduce complexity, and ensure a superior user experience.

The Fortinet Security Fabric is the result of over two decades of relentless focus on the company’s platform vision and organic product development and innovation.

The Power of Convergence

Since our founding, Fortinet has been challenging cybersecurity industry standards and it is gratifying to witness the wide adoption of our guiding principle: converging networking and security into secure networking to manage and protect content, applications, users, devices, data, and locations.

We invite you to read the latest Gartner SSE report to learn about critical market trends and the criteria used by Gartner analysts to position vendors in this Magic Quadrant. We also recommend reviewing other Gartner Magic Quadrant reports, like the 2023 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant^™ for Single-Vendor SASE, to see how Fortinet is evaluated.

Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge, Charlie Winckless, Thomas Lintemuth, Dale Koeppen, Published 15 April 2024

Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Evgeny Mirolyubov, Max Taggett, Franz Hinner, Nikul Patel, Published 31 December 2023

Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management, Pete Shoard, Andrew Davis, Mitchell Schneider, Published 10 October 2022

Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, Jonathan Forest, Naresh Singh, Andrew Lerner, Karen Brown, Published 27 September 2023

Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, Tim Zimmerman, Christian Canales, Nauman Raja, Mike Leibovitz, Published 06 March 2024

Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, Thomas Lintemuth, Published 19 December 2022

Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Henrique Teixeira, Abhyuday Data, Nathan Harris, Robertson Pimental, Published 16 November 2023 (Mentioned in the Honorable Mentions section)

Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Neil MacDonald, Nat Smith, Charlie Winckless, Published 16 August 2023

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