This isn’t just your ordinary firewall company, given Fortinet’s successful acceleration past the firewall in developing a broader and deeper networking and security portfolio. The event was also eye-opening, demonstrating the company's push into new market segments and corresponding success. I have followed Fortinet for a considerable time but was unaware of its leadership’s early recognition of the value of the convergence of networking and security. I believe there is a tremendous opportunity to shore up security for the latter, given the momentum behind Open RAN and the corresponding threat surface expansion that comes with not only disaggregation of the underlying infrastructure but also the adoption of massive IoT enabled by 5G’s improvement over LTE in terms of the scale of supported devices.Īccelerate 2023 was a personal education for me.
Finally, the company’s secure 5G effort is holistic, encompassing customer and operational technology (OT) edge, mobile edge and core, as well as mobile radio access networks (RAN). Bottom line, Fortinet is no longer a one-trick firewall pony, although it does still maintain its leadership in evolving that category with next generation firewalls (NGFW) and a consistently deployed fabric in FortiOS Everywhere.įortinet’s unified endpoint security aggregates ZTNA, SASE and virtual private network (VPN) agent functionality, endpoint detection response (EDR) and vulnerability management. Fortinet boasts nearly 1,000 issued patents, and although patent counting does not translate into innovation, it is a barometer of potential. What also impressed me at Accelerate this year is the company’s investment in research and development. This portfolio expansion allows the company to compete for an expansive market share, as evidenced by its consistent top-line revenue growth and customer acquisitions over the last five years. Flash forward to today, and Fortinet is extending itself into other adjacent security and networking categories, including SD-WAN, SASE, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), endpoint and email security and more.
That product quickly led the company to a dominant market position in unified threat management over the next several years. Fortinet’s first product, aptly named FortiGate, was a physical firewall.
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