Fortinet Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partner Program Surpasses 500 Integrations

Fortinet has announced the Fortinet Security Fabric has surpassed 500 technology integrations with more than 300 Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partners, providing customers and channel partners with integrated solutions to combat the growing threat landscape, improve security effectiveness, reduce complexity, and simplify operations. The Fortinet Open Ecosystem’s continuous pace and expansion is a monument to the Security Fabric’s openness, flexibility, and collaborative power, and it underscores the importance of strong technical partnerships that Fortinet has formed and cultivated over the years.

Technology Integrations Address Growing IT Complexity
The work-from-anywhere trend has radically altered the enterprise IT environment, necessitating the distribution of applications across hybrid IT deployments, including multi-cloud and data center networks, to fulfill continuously altering business requirements. The problems of managing complexity and moving with more agility mount as more firms digitize and migrate to dynamic, hybrid environments.

Fortinet’s convergent networking and security solutions continue to develop and create new industry standards. Organizations obtain total visibility and comprehensive protection by using the Security Fabric across data centers, campuses, interconnected branches, home offices, remote employees, and multi-cloud deployments. Customers, channel partners, and service providers of all sizes can choose from a variety of solutions optimized for the Fortinet Security Fabric thanks to over 500 integrations across 300 Fabric-Ready technology partners. As a result, enterprises can concentrate on delivering business results with more agility rather than managing deployment complexity.

The Fortinet Open Ecosystem
Adoption of the Fortinet Security Fabric, as well as partner focus on integrations to support it, continues to expand as companies shift to dynamic models to support their digital acceleration journey. Since its inception in 2016, the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program has continued to provide and incentivize partners by providing program infrastructure, resources, and tools to enable them to interact with the Security Fabric and build collaborative solutions as part of the Fortinet Open Ecosystem. Over the last year, alliance initiatives have focused on these core use cases:

Infrastructure Automation – to support day zero and day-n automation.
• HashiCorp
Cloud Security – for fast and secure multi-cloud access, SD-WAN connectivity and application performance and security.
• Broadcom, Megaport, Teridion
Secure Networking – for next-generation solutions to enrich visibility and network analytics and coordinate real-time threat detection and policy enforcement.
• AMD, Cubro, Intel, Niagara Networks, Ribbon Communications, Volli Communications
5G & Telco Solutions – to drive security innovation, automation, and management across 5G, mobile and Telco network architectures and use cases.
• Enea, Nethive, NetNumber, NoviFlow, Telco Systems
OT/IoT security – to discover and secure critical infrastructure and IoT/IoMT devices and ensure protection and compliance.
• Claroty, Dragos, Enea, Nozomi Networks, Ordr, OTORIO
Zero Trust Security – for next-generation solutions to drive access, authentication, and authorization, and ensure continuous backup and recovery.
• beyond SSL, Keyfactor, Rubrik
Network and Security Operations – to strengthen security posture and drive operational efficiency.
• appNovi, KnowBe4, Red Canary, ReliaQuest, SecurityBridge, Tufin

Each of these solutions is tailored for the Fortinet Security Fabric, allowing consumers to overcome complexity and begin realizing the full potential of their investments from industry trusted technology experts. Furthermore, Fabric Connectors designed by Fortinet allow deep connections with technology partner platforms and automate operations, rules, and procedures, reducing security and compliance gaps.

Fortinet channel partners are provided with best-in-class products and technologies that they can simply bundle and supplement with their high-value services for consumers. Because the solutions have been pre-validated in the Fortinet Open Ecosystem, they benefit from speedier time-to-deployment and decreased technical support load. The solutions enable channels to accelerate consumers’ time to value and innovation.

The Fabric-Ready Partner Program’s inclusive philosophy continues to motivate partners to join the Fortinet Open Ecosystem and provide well-architected and exceptional solutions for the benefit of customers and channel partners, simplifying and securing their digital acceleration journey and accelerating their time to value.