October 27, 2016 at 9:00 AM EDT

Fortinet's FortiCare 360 Degrees Cloud Service Delivers Continuous Assessment of Enterprises' Network Security Posture

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/27/16 -- John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions, Fortinet

"Misconfigured, suboptimized, and unpatched security components are the number one cause of security incidents reported globally, according to Verizon's 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report. Unfortunately, the critical process to consistently evaluate and optimize an enterprise's various security elements can be extremely time and resource intensive. Our FortiCare 360° cloud services solve these challenges -- leveraging Fortinet's Security Fabric to reinforce enterprise IT teams with proactive security device assessments, complete with actionable recommendations from Fortinet security engineers."

News Summary

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced the availability of its new cloud security service, FortiCare 360°. This support service bolsters enterprise and service provider IT resources with automated Security Fabric performance audits and security appliance health assessments, complete with actionable recommendations from Fortinet security engineers.

  • FortiCare 360° services proactively and continuously analyze FortiGate and FortiWiFi appliance health to identify opportunities for optimization and highlight potential issues for rapid resolution.
  • Automated network performance assessments are reinforced with monthly security environment audits that include personalized recommendations from Fortinet security experts.
  • FortiCare 360° streamlines IT security operations and increases efficiency, arming Enterprises and Service Providers with strategic insights and expert guidance to optimize the network and reduce time to resolution.

Advanced Support Services for the Fortinet Security Fabric

FortiCare 360° cloud services also include all the benefits of FortiCare 24x7 support, which offers around-the-clock technical support and rapid hardware replacement in the unlikely event of a hardware failure. Fortinet's FortiCare support services help customers design, implement and operate their Security Fabric infrastructure at maximum efficiency with the confidence that they are protected by the absolute best cyber defenses available.

Fortinet's Security Fabric has changed the way companies approach security with innovative communication between security devices that enables a unified and automated response to threats and helps streamline IT security operations.

Availability

Fortinet's FortiCare 360° Cloud Services are available for customers in the North and Latin American regions today. Customers in the EMEA and APAC regions will be able to purchase FortiCare 360° Cloud Services by the end of the fourth quarter of 2016. Please contact your authorized Fortinet distributor for additional details and pricing.

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About Fortinet

Fortinet(NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network -- today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 280,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

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