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Fortinet Introduces Enhanced AIOps Capabilities Across its SD-WAN, Wired/Wireless, and 5G/LTE Gateway Portfolio

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Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) has announced significant enhancements to its AIOps capabilities across its networking portfolio, including industry-first AI-based network operations for 5G/LTE gateways. These advancements aim to improve network management and uptime through proactive visibility. Fortinet has a robust background in AI, processing over 100 billion security events daily, enabling effective detection of threats. The updates, which enhance the Secure SD-WAN and Wired/Wireless LAN products, are designed to support organizations in optimizing their networks efficiently.

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  • Introduction of AI-based network operations management for 5G/LTE gateways enhances competitive positioning.
  • Expansion of AIOps capabilities across the networking portfolio improves operational efficiency.
  • Processing of over 100 billion security events daily positions Fortinet as a leader in actionable security insights.
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FortiAIOps builds on Fortinet's rich history of developing artificial intelligence to deliver actionable network insights for self-optimizing management

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet
“Fortinet has spent the past decade maturing its AI and ML technology to analyze over 100 billion global security events a day covering all types of threats and attack techniques, which in turn informs over 1 billion daily security updates to Fortinet’s products. We’re continuing our commitment to AI innovation and automation by delivering AIOps capabilities across our robust portfolio of enterprise networking technology to help our customers proactively simplify Day 2 operations and improve uptime of the network. These latest enhancements are another significant step towards truly autonomous and self-healing networks that converge networking and security.”

News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced enhanced AIOps capabilities across its entire networking portfolio, including the industry’s first artificial intelligence-based network operations management for 5G/LTE gateways. When combined with the latest AIOps enhancements to Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN and Wired/Wireless LAN portfolio, network operations teams have access to even more dynamic insights and event correlation across their entire network, making FortiAIOps the most complete AIOps network management platform in the industry.

Growing Urgency for AI-enhanced Network Automation

With accelerated digital innovation and the continued growth in the hybrid workforce, the network has never been more critical for business success. NOC teams are becoming increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence-based management tools like AIOps to maximize network visibility, improve the response time to anomalies and reduce ticket volume to remediate potential network issues.

Gartner® goes one step further, saying, “As organizations continue to undertake digital transformation, IT operations no longer has the luxury of responding to issues after they occur. Instead, it must become proactive, get more involved in the entire value stream and, at a minimum, work to address potential issues before they impact user experience.”¹

FortiAIOps Delivers Better Visibility and Control Across the Network

Fortinet started its artificial intelligence and machine learning journey a decade ago, and today, FortiGuard Labs can process over 100 billion security events per day, from more than 6 million devices, to provide actionable insights that help quickly identify zero-day threats and malware, reduce the number of false alarms, detect insider threats, and enable both automated and human cybersecurity responses.

FortiAIOps builds on this rich history in AI and ML to bring visibility to NOC teams by applying these principles to all layers of the network. Unlike many networking vendors, Fortinet uniquely converges networking and security across the LAN, Wireless LAN, and WAN and ties everything together with a single operating system and management console. Fortinet takes this one step further by integrating not just security, but also AIOps across the entire network to allow organizations to gain actionable Day 2 network insights that proactively optimize networks. Specifically, FortiAIOps provides configuration recommendations for hardware and software, and offers simplified resolution to trouble tickets.

Fortinet has advanced its FortiAIOps capabilities in the following ways:

SD-WAN
Fortinet was named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN for the third consecutive year for Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, which now benefits from enhanced FortiAIOps capabilities, including the ability to track metrics such as interfaces, system resources, and ISP bandwidth, as well as dynamically compute SLA baselines to ensure that the best performance is always achieved.

Wired/Wireless LAN
From its inception, FortiAIOps has supported the Fortinet Wired/Wireless LAN portfolio, including FortiSwitch and FortiAP. This latest release enhances Fortinet’s existing Wired/Wireless LAN AIOps capabilities by improving its ability to provide NOC teams with real-time visibility of potential issues before network users are negatively impacted. Additional enhancements deliver configurable SLAs, allowing teams to customize and fine-tune their preferred network metrics to best represent their network health.

5G/LTE Gateways
The addition of AIOps capabilities to support FortiExtender 5G/LTE gateways makes Fortinet the only vendor providing AIOps on a 5G/LTE link. This critical evolution of AIOps expands visibility for NOC teams and allows analysis of data down to the WAN link level, not just at the SD-WAN abstraction level. This helps IT teams better diagnose issues and ensure resiliency.

Analyst Validation

“Fortinet is delivering enhanced AIOps capabilities and consistent security across the LAN, Wireless LAN and WAN, which are of growing importance to digitally enabled enterprises. Fortinet’s ability to give networking teams access to high-quality insights that enable them to proactively optimize the network across SD-WAN, Wired/Wireless and 5G/LTE gateways – from a single platform and management console – is a valuable feature of the company’s networking portfolio. Fortinet has a strong pedigree of more than 20 years pioneering the convergence of networking and security, which has helped make the company one of the key partners enterprises are trusting for their digital and network transformation needs across the campus, branch, edge and cloud.”
– Brandon Butler, Research Manager, Enterprise Networks at IDC

Additional Resources

¹ Gartner, Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, Pankaj Prasad, Padraig Byrne, Gregg Siegfried, 30 May 2022

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, Jonathan Forest, Naresh Singh, Andrew Lerner, Karen Brown, September 2022

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About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 595,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.

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FAQ

What are the new AI capabilities announced by Fortinet for FTNT on September 27, 2022?

Fortinet announced enhanced AIOps capabilities across its networking portfolio, including AI-based network operations management for 5G/LTE gateways.

How does Fortinet's AIOps improve network management for FTNT investors?

Fortinet's AIOps enhances network visibility, simplifies operations, and allows proactive issue resolution, which can lead to reduced downtime and improved user experience.

What is the significance of Fortinet's ability to process over 100 billion security events daily for FTNT?

This capability strengthens Fortinet's market position by providing actionable insights that help in the quick detection of threats and reduction of false positives.

How does Fortinet's AIOps compare to competitors in the market for FTNT?

Fortinet's AIOps is considered the most complete network management platform in the industry, uniquely integrating security and networking with a single operating system.

What benefits do the latest enhancements bring to Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN and Wired/Wireless LAN for FTNT?

The enhancements improve performance metrics tracking and provide real-time visibility to resolve network issues before impacting users.

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