Fortinet crosses innovation milestone

Fortinet has announced that it has exceeded 500 issued patents. Fortinet holds 536 total issued patents worldwide, with an additional240 pending patent applications, a record among similar security vendors.

Issued patents span a wide range of cybersecurity technologies, including IoT, OT, network security and cloud, all with the objective of helping customers stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape.

Digital transformation is having a significant impact on technology, from data-driven decision-making to cloud adoption, mobility and the explosion in IoT devices. With this comes an increasing attack surface and rise in cyber attacks, driving organizations to re-examine their security architectures in favor of an open, multi-layered security fabric approach to protect their networks.

Fortinet has consistently anticipated the threats and vulnerabilities of the future, building solutions before these threats emerge – sometimes even years before – through innovative products like the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall platform, purpose-built ASIC technology and the FortiOS security operating system.

Innovation is core to Fortinet’s mission of delivering security without compromise, with patented and patentpending solutions designed to deliver open, integrated and forward-looking security and networking technologies that enable organizations to dynamically and securely adapt to change.

Some of Fortinet’s most recent patented innovations include inventions related to:

• Automation and artificial intelligence (AI)

• Cloud-based security policy configuration • Cloud-based logging service • Securing the Internet of Things (IoT) • Security analytics • Email and web security • Security information and event management (SIEM)

• Sandboxing protection for endpoints

• Dynamically optimized security policy management

• Secure, automatic second factor user authentication using push services

Fortinet integrates its patented technology with third-party solutions through the Fortinet Security Fabric. Many organizations today deploy a wide range of cybersecurity and networking solutions that don’t interoperate, but also can’t be easily replaced.