Fortinet Named a Leader in UTM Magic Quadrant

Fortinet been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management for the eighth consecutive time. Gartner recognized Fortinet for its completeness of vision and ability to execute on that vision when evaluating its Security Fabric solution. Fortinet also was positioned the highest for its ability to execute. Fortinet’s FortiGate UTM solutions deliver complete security and networking services, tailored to meet the performance and value requirements for small and medium businesses and distributed enterprises.

John Maddison, SVP of Products and Solutions, Fortinet said: “As a pioneer and consistent leader of UTM solutions, Fortinet is constantly innovating our technologies to deliver the end-to-end security and high-performance networking to serve as the foundation for thousands of SMB and distributed enterprise IT infrastructures.”

Fortinet developed its technology for UTM from the ground up to deliver the most complete range of UTM solutions in the market. At the foundation of its UTM technology is Fortinet’s custom-designed Security Processing Unit, the SOC3. SOC3 more than doubles the secure networking performance over the enterprise-class CPUs found in competing security solutions, all at a lower cost. The power of SOC3 enables FortiGate UTM appliances to deliver consolidated security features, ideal for small and medium businesses, while outperforming the competition.

Fortinet also offers SaaS-based management tools to give SMBs and distributed enterprises centralized control over their infrastructure, whether they are managing a few appliances or thousands.

Chris Boedges, CTO, Edward Jones commented – “Partnering with Fortinet enabled us to flawlessly roll out a network architecture from the endpoints in branch offices to our datacenters that helped us improve the delivery of data across our distributed enterprise.”

Dan Rasmussen, VP North America Sales and Marketing at Hughes said – “Our partnership with Fortinet stands out in the market because, together, we can offer customers a complete security and networking solution born from two market leaders.”