Fortinet enhances Secure SD-WAN globally with new partnerships

Fortinet announced that seven new service providers have adopted Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to their managed service portfolios: Convergia, Eastern Communications, Halo Global, Lintasarta, Ooredoo Qatar, PLDT, and Transtelco. MSSPs may deliver high-value security-driven networking services to customers, tap into new market opportunities, and develop their business by fulfilling customer needs in a unique way using Fortinet’s industry-leading Secure SD-WAN solution.

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet

“Fortinet Secure SD-WAN empowers MSSPs with a Security-driven Networking approach through the convergence of networking and security to deliver value-added services that solve their customers’ biggest challenges, such as securing digital acceleration and enabling work-from-anywhere. Seamless integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric, the industry’s highest-performing cybersecurity mesh platform, ensures MSSPs can easily grow their business with new and differentiated managed SD-WAN and security services.”

Growth opportunities for MSSPs are on the rise

Organizations must adjust as business-critical cloud-based apps grow, with a distributed architecture of remote and branch offices and a rising workforce that requires work-from-anywhere capabilities. Customers are also eager to invest in contemporary networking technology to ensure a safe and enhanced user experience as part of the ongoing digital acceleration. Because of the cybersecurity skills shortage and the increasing levels of specialisation necessary to operate a growing security infrastructure, MSSPs are becoming more appealing to businesses of all sizes. By providing managed network, security, and monitoring technologies to protect enterprise data, infrastructure, and users regardless of who, where, when, and how IT assets are accessed, Fortinet MSSP partners are looking for ways to reduce risk and minimise the impact of cyberattacks for their customers.

MSSPs are looking for solutions that converge networking and security and are integrated with a cybersecurity mesh platform to provide superior quality of experience at scale, operational efficiencies, and secure dedicated internet access to their customers in order to deliver these capabilities to them.

Fortinet supports MSSPs in delivering high-value services to their customers

MSSPs continue to look to Fortinet as a leader in the security-driven networking space, with the world’s first ASIC-accelerated secure SD-WAN solution delivering security effectiveness, affordability, and performance. MSSPs are leveraging Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to help them develop new services that can accommodate various architectural requirements unique to MSSP environments, such as multitenancy, custom portals, comprehensive automation, and orchestration support centralized management and analytics, custom reporting, and zero-touch provisioning (ZTP). MSSPs can employ Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, which is integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, to secure users, devices, applications, and edges anywhere, to answer their clients’ difficulties of securing their work-from-anywhere and digital acceleration needs.

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is the only solution that combines SD-WAN, next-generation firewall (NGFW), advanced routing, and ZTNA access proxy features, and has recently garnered industry analyst acclaim. In the 2021 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for WAN Edge Infrastructure, Fortinet was declared a Leader and ranked #1 for three out of five use cases in the Gartner® Critical Capabilities for WAN Edge Infrastructure. In addition, Fortinet was rated a top SD-WAN provider in Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Frost Radar and awarded the Global SD-WAN Vendor Product Leadership Award.

In addition to analyst recognition, seven new managed SD-WAN services powered by Fortinet have just launched; here’s what these new MSSP partners had to say about Fortinet Secure SD-WAN:

“Our partnership with Fortinet has a positive impact on our commercial offerings in all of our operations throughout the Latin American region. With Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, we make the best technology available to our clients to meet our customers’ needs for secure connectivity and high performance.” – Alejandro Bitar, Co-Founder and Executive President at Convergia

“Eastern Communications and Fortinet share a mutual commitment to delivering success to our customers. By leveraging Fortinet’s Security Fabric, Eastern Communications is able to offer proven, high-performing, and scalable cybersecurity solutions across the country – for customers in all industries and businesses of any size. Together, Eastern Communications and Fortinet deliver a security-driven networking approach that converges leading technology solutions such as FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and FortiSIEM to deliver managed firewall, Secure SD-WAN and other services. We look forward to continuing to offer our customers in the Philippines Fortinet’s future-proof security and networking solutions.” – Edsel Paglinawan, Product & Innovation Head at Eastern Communications

“Halo Global provides managed SD-WAN and services that allows customers to consume security services via fully managed, co-managed and self-service options. We couple this with our no risk-purchasing that reduces adoption risk for enterprises. Because Fortinet is an industry leader across multiple products, we believe it to be an exceptional benefit to our customers to have the full Fortinet Security-driven Networking approach in to offer with its Secure SD-WAN solution and security and switch stack in our portfolio. Fortinet’s single pane of glass view and incredible and integrated product depth allows us to efficiently manage our clients’ SD-WAN and security needs on a single platform, reducing infrastructure and software costs.”- Darren Carlson, CEO at Halo Global

“Lintasarta, an ICT Total Solutions Company, is committed to providing innovative and high-value end-to-end solutions to our customers. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is a unique and superior solution that prioritizes security, flexibility and cost efficiency. In the past 3 years, we have successfully deployed more than 4,500 Fortinet Secure SD-WAN networks. Lintasarta’s ability to provide its customers with the high-performance and flexibility capabilities of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN innovation helps Lintasartato build customer trust and satisfaction.” – Zulfi Hadi, Delivery & Operations Director at Lintasarta 

“Enterprise EDGE is Ooredoo’s managed SD-WAN service in Qatar that allows enterprise customers to create a network by mixing and matching services from a wide range of WAN connections. By leveraging Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Ooredoo now has access to a security-driven networking approach that combines SD-WAN functionality and next-generation firewall security in a single offering. In an environment faced with increasingly sophisticated security challenges and expanding attack surface, Enterprise EDGE’s new service option – built on Fortinet’s proven Secure SD-WAN solution – brings high performance at scale to Ooredoo customers across Qatar.” –Thani Ali Al Malki, Executive Director Business, Ooredoo Qatar

“Through the MSSP partnership with Fortinet, PLDT Enterprise is able to meet the unique security-driven networking requirements of our customers, allowing us to achieve our goal of simplifying the complex and accelerating deployments in support of our customers in their digital transformation efforts. The combination of PLDT’s superior and reliable connectivity and Fortinet’s fast, scalable, and flexible Secure SD-WAN managed service added as part of our value offering enables our customers to have greater flexibility in managing their network, thereby achieving cost effectiveness with uncompromised security – a perfect match to support Enterprise customers in their rapid digitalization needs.” –John R. Gonzales, First Vice President at PLDT

“Transtelco delivers fully managed SD-WAN services that give our customers a single point of contact for their complete security solution, including Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, software licenses, and managed WAN services. Working with Fortinet allows us to have an even more complete portfolio for creating networks that are secure, flexible, resilient, and managed for our clients across the continent.” – Martha Elena Cedillo, Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Transtelco