Fortinet Security Fabric: Integrated Security from Cloud to Endpoint

Fortinet Security Fabric: Integrated Security from Cloud to Endpoint

28 January 2021

Products & licensing
Technology review
Networking & Security
Cybersecurity

By Fabian Claes, Technical Engineer, Inetum-Realdolmen

Many of the major security players make promises, but Fortinet delivers: the ability to secure your entire IT infrastructure through a single security platform with seamless integration and an open architecture. This approach has its advantages, and the price is only one of them. It also has a great effect on available functionality and performance. And that's before we've even considered the exceptional ease of management.

Fortinet has been a leader in cybersecurity for some twenty years now and will undoubtedly go down in history as the first supplier to take an architectural approach to security.

With Fortinet Security Fabric, this pioneer and leader in UTM (unified threat management) solutions has launched one of the most comprehensive integrated security solutions on the market. From the cloud to terminal equipment, and everything in between (email, perimeter, LAN, WLAN, network access), Fortinet protects it all against the most sophisticated threats using powerful, automated methods.

Central administration

This automated approach obviously offers a number of advantages when it comes to management, as it enables the central creation, management and enforcement of security rules. More importantly, it also allows you to set up automatic responses to detected threats for your broader IT infrastructure. This gains you better insight into the behavior of your users, devices and applications, meaning you'll be able to identify and deal with threats faster.

At any rate, Fortinet Security Fabric makes administrators' work more pleasant. Once they only have a single integrated security platform to manage, with a uniform operating system and from one central management console, their complex, challenging duties become much simpler and clearer. They can get a look at the big picture or a smaller one quickly, opt for a helicopter view from the cloud, or focus on the most intricate details of their terminal equipment.

Open ecosystem

In short, Fortinet Security Fabric offers everything you need to provide your IT infrastructure with the best protection. Despite that, this innovative technology also practices open communication and integrates smoothly with other security manufacturers' systems. Additionally, Fortinet works to maintain this technological bridge with the outside world through its Open Fabric Ecosystem, a community of partners who complement, integrate or collaborate with Security Fabric.

As part of this networking initiative they have also set up Fortinet Fabric-Ready, a specific partner program whose members now include almost all the major hardware and software manufacturers. Thanks to this program, Fortinet is one of the few suppliers on the market to offer customers integrated total solutions for optimal, comprehensive security. It also helps Fortinet detect and prevent potential risks more quickly.

Added value

At Realdolmen, we are always looking for solutions that deliver real added value for our customers. We also constantly review many different security applications. Fortinet Security Fabric doesn't just score well functionally in that respect, it offers very good value for money too.

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