As the use of business-critical, cloud-based applications continues to increase, organizations with a distributed infrastructure of remote offices and an expanding remote workforce need to adapt. The effective solution is to switch from static, performance-inhibited wide-area networks (WANs) to software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) architectures. Traditional WANs may utilize SLA-backed private multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) or leased line links to an organizations' main data centers for all application and security needs. But that comes at a premium price for connectivity. While a legacy hub-and-spoke architecture may provide centralized protection, it increases latency and slows down network performance to distributed cloud services for application access and compute. The result is operational complexity and limited visibility associated with multiple point products. This scenario adds significant management overhead and difficulties, especially when trying to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
Fortinet's Secure Networking strategy tightly integrates an organization's network infrastructure and security architecture, enabling networks to transform at scale without compromising security. This next-generation approach provides consistent security enforcement across flexible perimeters by combining a next-generation firewall with advanced SD-WAN networking capabilities. This combination paves the way to Fortinet Single-Vendor SASE approach empowering organizations to consistently apply enterprise grade security and superior user experience across all edges converging networking and security across a unified operating system and agent. FortiSASE extends FortiGuard security services across Thin Edge, Secure Edge, and remote users enabling secure access to users both on and off the network. Furthermore, infrastructure networks are simplified by extending SD-WAN into wired and wireless access points of branch offices.
Improved user experience
An application-driven approach provides broad application steering with accurate granular identification, advanced WAN remediation, and accelerated cloud on-ramp for optimized network and application performance. Furthermore, a Secure Private Access via FortiSASE to secure access to private applications for remote users.
Accelerated convergence
The industry's only organically developed, purpose-built, and ASIC-powered SD-WAN enables Secure Edge (FortiGate SD-WAN) and thin edge (FortiExtender Wireless WAN) to transition to Fortinet Single-Vendor SASE solution to secure all applications, users, and data anywhere.
Efficient operations
Simplify operations with centralized orchestration and enhanced analytics for SD-WAN, security, and SD-Branch at scale.
Comprehensive security on-prem and in the cloud
A built-in next-generation firewall (NGFW) combines SD-WAN and security capabilities in a unified solution to preserve the security and availability of the network. In addition, cloud delivered security (SASE) can also be leveraged by the branches and remote users.
