Fortinet Unveils New Digital Risk Protection Offering to Empower Security and Executive Teams with an Attacker’s View of the Enterprise

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Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) has launched FortiRecon, a comprehensive Digital Risk Protection Service that leverages machine learning, automation, and human intelligence. This service helps organizations monitor their external attack surface, assess brand risk, and gain actionable insights against potential cyber threats. FortiRecon addresses critical areas such as External Attack Surface Management, Brand Protection, and Adversary-Centric Intelligence, allowing companies to identify vulnerabilities early and mitigate risks effectively.

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• Launch of FortiRecon enhances Fortinet's cybersecurity offerings.
• Utilizes machine learning and human intelligence for effective threat monitoring.
• Triple coverage model: External Attack Surface Management, Brand Protection, and Adversary-Centric Intelligence.
• Helps organizations identify vulnerabilities early and act quickly to mitigate risks.

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FortiRecon combines machine learning, automation, and human intelligence to continually monitor an organization’s external attack surface, determine its brand risk, and deliver custom intel to act earlier and faster on threats

SAN FRANCISCO, June 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RSAC 2022

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet
“The sooner in the attack cycle you identify and stop an adversary, the less costly and damaging their actions. Employing a powerful combination of human and artificial intelligence, FortiRecon provides organizations with a view of what adversaries are seeing, doing and planning. FortiRecon’s vendor agnostic SaaS delivery model combined with an intuitive interface and easily digestible reports enable executives across the organization to quickly understand the risks posed to their company, data, and brand reputation, while our team of FortiGuard Labs cybersecurity experts enhance the offering with takedown services, guidance on prioritization of remediation efforts, and targeted threat research and intelligence.”

News Summary  
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced FortiRecon, a complete Digital Risk Protection Service (DRPS) offering that uses a powerful combination of machine learning, automation capabilities, and FortiGuard Labs cybersecurity experts to manage a company’s risk posture and advise meaningful action to protect their brand reputation, enterprise assets, and data. FortiRecon uniquely delivers a triple offering of outside-in coverage across External Attack Surface Management (EASM), Brand Protection (BP), and Adversary-Centric Intelligence (ACI) to counter attacks at the reconnaissance phase – the first stage of a cyberattack – to significantly reduce the risk, time, and cost of later stage threat mitigation.

Organizations are Overwhelmed in the Fight to Protect their Network, Data, and Reputation and Mitigate Risk Early
Before attacking an organization, a cybercriminal’s primary objective is to gather as much intelligence about their target as possible. This phase of early reconnaissance arms the adversary with everything they need to determine if and how they would exploit an organization. They will test a company’s defense and response tactics, look for unpatched systems, use social media to learn more about its employees and their normal behavior, and go as far as researching business partners, recent acquisitions, and any other third-party affiliation that could lead to a successful compromise. As organizations digitally accelerate their businesses and deploy hybrid IT architectures that expand the attack surface, identifying and mitigating these threats has become increasingly more difficult. In response to the velocity of threats, cybersecurity best practices have evolved from point-in-time evaluations to continual monitoring, ongoing reviews, and continuous enhancements to an organization’s security posture.

Taking a Page Out of the Adversary Playbook to Mitigate Risk
With the introduction of FortiRecon, Fortinet provides enterprise organizations with a powerful tool to understand how the adversary views an organization from the outside to help inform cybersecurity teams, the C-Level, and risk and compliance management on how to prioritize risk and improve the company's overall security posture. FortiRecon offers companies consistent and comprehensive coverage across three areas:

• External Attack Surface Monitoring: Empowers organizations to understand their risk profile and mitigate risks early. Provides an outside-in view of an organization and its subsidiaries to identify exposed known and unknown enterprise assets and associated vulnerabilities, and prioritize the remediation of critical issues. EASM identifies servers, credentials, public cloud service misconfigurations, and even third-party partner software code vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious actors.
• Brand Protection: Enables organizations to protect their brand and identify risks to their customers. Proprietary algorithms detect web-based typo-squatting, defacements, and phishing impersonations, as well as rogue mobile apps, credential leaks, and brand impersonation on social media, all common techniques used by cyber threat actors. The early detection of malicious activity allows teams to quickly take action (such as website or application takedown) to stop and prevent damage.
• Adversary-Centric Intelligence: Increases the security awareness of an organization’s SOC team with industry and geography specific coverage to better understand their attackers and protect assets. FortiGuard Labs cybersecurity experts assess the underground and imminent threat risks posed by active cybercriminals to an individual company by proactively monitoring public and private forums, open-source, dark web, and other cybercriminal domains. By engaging in human intelligence collection, FortiGuard Labs experts assess and curate custom threat intelligence, providing recommendations specific to the company, industry, and geography.
  

For partners, FortiRecon can be sold on top of the Fortinet Security Fabric or as a stand-alone, vendor-agnostic solution that delivers easily digestible reports and enables their customers to quickly understand the risks posed to their company, data, and brand reputation. FortiRecon also extends the categories of risk for which partners can provide insight to customers and increases the opportunity to land new customers that have only invested in more traditional security solutions.

Enhancing Fortinet’s Early Detection and Response Portfolio and Industry Leading Security Services
FortiRecon complements Fortinet’s robust portfolio of early detection and advanced response products, including FortiNDR, FortiXDR, FortiDeceptor, in-line sandboxing, as well as advanced automation with FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM and FortiSOAR.

Fortinet is firmly committed to the success of SOC teams and the protection of organizations and offers an extensive portfolio of outsource services ranging from cybersecurity assessments and readiness, playbook development, tabletop training, Incident Response, MDR and SOC-as-a-service. This combined offering, alongside the many enhancements across the Fortinet Security Fabric and extended ecosystem deliver simplification and automation to help SOC teams regain focus, control, and speed by strengthening an organization’s SOC with FortiGuard Labs cybersecurity tools and experts.

Get a demo of FortiRecon in the Fortinet booth at RSAC 2022
Fortinet will be a Platinum Sponsor at this year’s RSA Conference and will feature product demos, a live theater, and a Fortinet Expert Bar at booth #5855 in the Moscone Center North Hall. Stop by the booth to get a demo of FortiRecon and other recent product, solution, and services innovations from Fortinet. Learn more about Fortinet at RSA and presentations featuring Fortinet executives in the media alert.

Additional Resources

• Read our blog to learn more about the value security services can bring to any organization and find out more about Fortinet’s robust portfolio of AI-powered Security Services.
• Learn more about Fortinet’s advanced detection offerings for the SOC: FortiNDR, FortiDeceptor, FortiXDR, and FortiGuard In-line Sandbox Service
• Learn more about Fortinet SOC-as-a-Service.
• Learn more about how the Fortinet Security Fabric delivers broad, integrated, and automated protection across an organization’s entire digital infrastructure.
• Learn more about FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence and research or Fortinet’s AI-powered FortiGuard Security Services portfolio.
• Learn more about Fortinet’s free cybersecurity training which includes broad cyber awareness and product training. As part of the Fortinet Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), the Fortinet Training Institute also provides training and certification through the Network Security Expert (NSE) Certification, Academic Partner, and Education Outreach programs.
• Read more about how Fortinet customers are securing their organizations.
• Engage in the Fortinet User Community (Fuse). Share ideas and feedback, learn more about our products and technology, and connect with peers.
• Follow Fortinet on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Subscribe to Fortinet on YouTube.
  

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 580,000 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, or FortiGuard Labs.

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FAQ

What is FortiRecon by Fortinet?

FortiRecon is a Digital Risk Protection Service that combines machine learning and human intelligence to help organizations monitor their external attack surfaces and mitigate risks.

How does FortiRecon enhance cybersecurity?

FortiRecon enhances cybersecurity by providing insights into vulnerabilities, brand risks, and adversary intelligence, allowing companies to act proactively against threats.

When was FortiRecon launched?

FortiRecon was launched on June 6, 2022, as part of Fortinet's initiatives at the RSAC 2022.

What are the key features of FortiRecon?

Key features of FortiRecon include External Attack Surface Management, Brand Protection, and Adversary-Centric Intelligence.

How does FortiRecon help with risk management?

FortiRecon helps with risk management by identifying known and unknown vulnerabilities early, allowing organizations to prioritize remediation efforts.