Fortinet expands security services offerings to protect digital infrastructures

Fortinet, a global provider of broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced an expansion to its FortiCare and FortiGuard security services offerings, adding a new security service called FortiTrust.

According to Fortinet, FortiTrust security services offer user-based licensing across all networks, endpoints and clouds, which traditionally have been siloed. Initial service levels are being offered for zero trust network access (ZTNA) and identity verification, with more offerings forthcoming.

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO, Fortinet, said: “As the digital attack surface expands with billions of Edges that need to be protected, organisations are struggling to support an array of point security solutions and disparate services. Solution and services sprawl has now grown too difficult and too expensive to manage when they are siloed across various form factors. According to Gartner, organisations are moving towards security solutions with integrated services offerings. Fortinet is redefining services by expanding its security services options – which currently include FortiCare and FortiGuard – with FortiTrust, enabling a unified offering with one licensing model for flexible consumption options across networks, endpoints and clouds.”

FortiTrust provides security services that follow the user across an organisation’s entire security platform, enabling organisations  to easily manage and secure across all form factors. Other benefits of the new offering include:

• Flexible user-based licensing of security services, eliminating the need to track device counts or bandwidth consumption and making it easy to calculate total cost with built in volume discounts
• Integrated single license for security services delivers desired use cases across the Fortinet Security Fabric
• Easy implementation of new security services allows users to transition across various form factors, enabling organisations  with hybrid architectures to shift from on-premises to cloud-delivered security
• Easy options to upgrade and migrate between services

FortiTrust adds to Fortinet’s existing FortiCare and FortiGuard security services portfolio. FortiCare services are available for all Fortinet Security Fabric products.