Fortinet has launched the industry’s most comprehensive solution for securing and connecting work-from-anywhere environments. By integrating Fortinet’s broad portfolio of zero trust, endpoint, and network security products into the Fortinet Security Fabric, the company can provide enterprise-grade security, services, and threat intelligence to users whether they’re on the go, at home, or at work. These capabilities, which are tailored to the way people do business in the Work-from-Anywhere Era, are now available.
John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet, “Empowering users to move seamlessly between different work environments has critical implications for maintaining user productivity as well as security. Cybercriminals have been quick to exploit the expanded attack surface and security gaps created by this shift in work patterns to get a foothold into the corporate network.”
He added, “Today’s enterprise organizations require work-from-anywhere security that is as flexible and dynamic as Today’s business demands. Fortinet is the only vendor capable of delivering unified security built for the Work-from-Anywhere Era that seamlessly adapts based on a user’s environment and risk profile.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced as the forcing function that greatly expanded the work-from-anywhere model. A forecast analysis from Gartner® reveals, “by the end of 2024, the change in the nature of work will increase the total available remote worker market to 60% of all employees, up from 52% in 2020.” Also, according to Gartner, “Organizations are facing a hybrid future, with 75% of hybrid or remote knowledge workers saying their expectations for working flexibly have increased.”
Fortinet has launched the industry’s most comprehensive solution for securing and connecting work-from-anywhere environments. By integrating Fortinet’s extensive portfolio of zero trust, endpoint, and network security products into the Fortinet Security Fabric, the company can provide enterprise-grade security, services, and threat intelligence to users whether they’re on the go, at home, or at work. These capabilities, which are tailored to the way people do business in the Work-from-Anywhere Era, are now available.
Apparently, remote and hybrid work has become the norm, and cybercriminals will continue to exploit this new attack surface. Enterprises must now take a “work-from-anywhere” approach to security to handle the shift in the workforce and threat landscape by deploying solutions capable of following, empowering, and protecting people no matter where they are situated.
Users access apps from the cloud, data center, or SaaS as they move between travel, office, and home. Because of this constant flux, zero trust, endpoint, and network security must be all unified by a common set of APIs and integration points so that users can seamlessly transition from one location to the next while maintaining a consistent user experience that is adequately protected with contextual security. Fortinet is the only vendor capable of providing this unification level, allowing for personalized security based on where users are and what they are accessing. Here’s how Fortinet makes work-from-anywhere possible in three scenarios:
Travel: Users working outside the office or primary remote space(and the layered security it provides) potentially introduce unique threat exposure when connecting to the applications and resources necessary for work while using unknown and often unsecured networks and locations. This enables cybercriminals to snoop on exposed communications or launches attacks from inadequately protected devices. To secure users on the go, Fortinet delivers an integrated combination of:
Work-from-Home: Remote and hybrid employees often log in from a fixed remote location with some work-enabling infrastructure, such as a monitor, home network, and external webcam and microphone. On the other hand, home networks are rife with insecure IoT gadgets, as well as other users who may be wasting bandwidth with time-consuming video streaming or online gaming. They are also frequently beyond the corporate network’s security and controls. Fortinet offers an integrated set of services to give managed, enterprise-grade protection to consumers at home.
Office: Given the potential for vulnerabilities to be exploited or third parties to be compromised, providing an entry point for cybercriminals to bypass corporate controls, strong endpoint security remains an important part of a layered defense even when users are working from a location managed by the organization that provides networking and security to employees. Fortinet provides an integrated combination of services to safeguard individuals, devices, and servers in the office.
All of the aforementioned features are included in the Fortinet Security Fabric for improved security, management, and total cost of ownership. Fortinet is the only vendor capable of delivering all of the essential components to support the three use cases of work-from-anywhere as part of an integrated and automated cybersecurity platform and is the only vendor capable of supporting ZTNA across travel, office, and work-from-home.
Fortinet is committed to growing its FortiTrust security as a service portfolio, which offers simpler consumption and uniform licensing models suited for the way enterprises do business in the Work-from-Anywhere Era, to further accelerate secure work-from-anywhere. Unlike most complex licensing that combines device-based, appliance-based, and cloud-based costs, FortiTrust unifies everything under a single user-based license that follows users across any environment or form factor. This enables businesses to respond quickly to work-from-anywhere concerns such as changing connectivity requirements, hybrid workers, or resources that need to switch between physical and virtual environments and form factors. The streamlined licensing approach from FortiTrust provides for full network flexibility and easy deployment of new technologies optimized for dynamic networks.
Fortinet’s specialized cybersecurity threat intelligence and research team, FortiGuard Labs, is focused to developing and deploying cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies to provide customers with top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence on a constant basis. To maintain Fortinet security solutions armed with the greatest threat identification and protection knowledge available, FortiGuard Labs continuously analyses the global attack surface utilising millions of network sensors and hundreds of intelligence-sharing partners.
These efforts yield immediate, actionable threat intelligence, allowing Fortinet to adapt security enforcement based on location, device, and application users are attempting to connect to.
“Supporting a hybrid workforce has spawned significant investment across both IT and security teams. As organizations commit to the long-term use of this hybrid model, new access and security strategies have emerged, and it’s great to see Fortinet optimize their security and services portfolio to help implement these strategies.”- Dave Gruber, Senior Analyst, ESG
“As a national Cloud Communication service leader, we’re focused on transforming the secure hybrid work experience for our commercial, enterprise and public sector clients. Our partnership with Fortinet is critical for helping our organization deliver secure-by-design platform services that customers need to operate safely in Today’s work-from-anywhere environment.” – Jim Sullivan, President and CEO, NWN Carousel
“The threat landscape has evolved to take advantage of the mobility of Today’s workforce, which means security must evolve as well. Our partnership with industry-leader Fortinet ensures we bring the latest technology and innovation to our customers’ cybersecurity plans. With a broad set of solutions that integrate with not only their own products but with other vendor products as well, Fortinet allows us to secure Today’s workforce no matter where they are.”-Shawn Waldman, CEO, Secure Cyber Defense
