GEC NEWS WIREFortinet has taken over AccelOps. The acquisition further extends Fortinet’s recent Security Fabric strategy by enhancing network security visibility, security data analytics and threat intelligence across multi-vendor solutions.
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Fortinet said, “With the acquisition of AccelOps, Fortinet extends its Security Fabric to address these challenges by combining security and compliance monitoring with advanced analytics for multi-vendor security solutions, enabling automated and actionable security intelligence from IoT to the cloud.”
AccelOps solutions will become FortiSIEM and become part of the Fortinet Security Fabric. Next Generation Security Information and Event Management, or Next Gen SIEM, capabilities from AccelOps coupled with FortiGuard Labs global threat intelligence and third-party threat feeds will be integrated into the Fortinet Security Fabric. AccelOps’s Security Operations Center (SoC) and Network Operations Center (NoC) capabilities will power Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and Fortinet Support Services, including a new subscription service called FortiCare 360° Support.
Partha Bhattacharya, Founder and CTO, AccelOps said, “Fortinet and AccelOps share a common vision of providing holistic, actionable security intelligence across the entire IT infrastructure. The synergies between AccelOps’s solutions and Fortinet’s Security Fabric vision and thought leadership will ensure that our customers are protected with the most scalable and proven global threat intelligence, security and performance analytics and compliance and control across all types of network environments with multiple security and networking vendor products.”
