Fortinet Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Unified Threat Management

Fortinet, a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management” report. Based on evaluation of its FortiGate® multi-threat security appliances the company has been acknowledged for both its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Fortinet in this quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, and in enabling customers to deploy them inexpensively without significantly affecting the end-user experience or increasing staffing burdens. These vendors also have a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products.

Since pioneering the UTM market 10 years ago, Fortinet has helped to address the security needs of more than 100,000 customers worldwide, including the majority of the global Fortune 100 enterprises.

Fortinet’s FortiGate appliances provide a high-performance, consolidated array of security and networking functions including complete content protection against network, content, and application-level threats without degrading network availability and uptime. All FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate core security and network functionalities including firewall, SSL and IPSec VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antispam, application control, data loss prevention, SSL traffic inspection and WAN optimization. Custom FortiASIC processors enable organizations to detect malicious content- and connection-based threats at multi-Gigabit speeds.