Fortinet Delivers Unmatched Flexibility and Simplicity with New Enhancements to Its Unified SASE Solution

Fortinet announced the addition of sovereign SASE and generative AI capabilities to its robust unified SASE solution. Fortinet Unified SASE provides complete integration between Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution and cloud-delivered security service edge under a single console for seamless management, visibility, and security. The new updates announced today further the company’s vision of delivering a comprehensive and highly flexible unified SASE solution to customers.

Most SASE solutions available today are fragmented, meaning they require many management consoles and agents while providing limited visibility and security enforcement. This complexity is expensive to maintain and creates gaps in security. Fortinet is unique in its ability to create a unified SASE solution that is powered by a single operating system, management console, endpoint agent, and data lake while truly integrating SD-WAN and SSE. Fortinet Unified SASE provides all core SASE features, the industry’s most flexible connectivity (including access points and switches), and intelligent AI integrations with unified management, end-to-end digital experience monitoring, and consistent security policy enforcement with zero trust, both on-premises and in the cloud.

According to Gartner®, “Buyers are increasingly demanding more options for data and cloud sovereignty, including where traffic is routed, where it is inspected, and where logs are stored.” This is especially true for organizations operating in highly regulated verticals with sensitive data like finance, government, and healthcare. New Fortinet Sovereign SASE provides a comprehensive SASE delivery option that enables organizations to maintain local control over inspection and logs. This ensures robust data privacy and compliance while offering enhanced security and flexibility to large enterprises and service providers.

With Fortinet Sovereign SASE, customers can determine how their data is routed and where security inspections occur, whether to a data center owned by Fortinet, a partner, or the customer, while ensuring their traffic is protected by Fortinet’s full security stack.

GenAI has emerged as a critical tool to support IT and cybersecurity staff and enable them to make better decisions faster. FortiAI, Fortinet’s GenAI assistant, is now available for Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to manage and orchestrate the entire SD-WAN infrastructure. This integration accelerates and enhances Day 0 through Day 2 operations, including visual and configuration assistance, consultation, and troubleshooting. Customers can now deploy and manage their SD-WAN solutions quicker and more efficiently than ever before.

Fortinet is committed to continuous SASE innovation and releases monthly updates so organizations can address their changing needs and stay one step ahead of attackers. Recent Fortinet Unified SASE updates include:

We believe this dedication to innovation is why Fortinet was recently named a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE for the second year in a row, a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN for the fourth year in a row, and a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge.

Source: Fortinet media announcement