Sheikh Rashid Hall Stand SR- C4 News Summary: Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced its participation at GITEX 2018 with a focus on encouraging organizations to adopt a Security Transformation (SX) approach to complement their Digital Transformation (DX) initiative. “The digital transformation or DX wave appears to be sweeping away everything that stands before it, and cybersecurity worries have emerged as a significant obstacle to the transformation process,” said Alain Penel, Regional Vice President – Middle East, Fortinet. “Currently, four areas stand out as particularly acute cybersecurity pain points for organizations … Continue reading Fortinet to Drive Security Transformation at Gitex 2018

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Not all cloud software is created equal

August 1, 2018 Business & Lifestyle Publishing

By John Maddison, Senior Vice President of products and solutions, Fortinet. An assumption made by many security professionals is that any performance differences between physical security devices are eliminated when those security software images are run on identical cloud hardware. But the truth is, there are still significant performance differences between solutions, and those differences can be critical both from a processing perspective as well as cost. Because cloud performance is a baseline requirement for competing in the digital marketplace, organizations cannot afford for security to be a bottleneck. Transactions need to be inspected at digital speeds. Of course, elastic … Continue reading Not all cloud software is created equal

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Fortinet Signs Threat Information Sharing Agreement with INTERPOL

June 17, 2018July 5, 2018 Business & Lifestyle Publishing

Formal Relationship Showcases Public and Private Collaboration in Combating Cybercrime & Privacy Protection, Globally News Summary Fortinet(NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, automated and integrated cybersecurity solutions, today announced that it has formalized its threat sharing with INTERPOL. The goal of the agreement is to proactively combat cybercrime and threats to privacy globally through the sharing of threat information generated by Fortinet FortiGuard Labsglobal threat research team. Fortinet will be involved in operational briefings at INTERPOL and vice versa. A threat intelligence expert from Fortinet will be assigned to collaborate with experts at the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation … Continue reading Fortinet Signs Threat Information Sharing Agreement with INTERPOL

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Fortinet Introduces Machine Learning Capabilities to its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall for Advanced Behavioral Threat Detection

June 10, 2018 Business & Lifestyle Publishing

Two-step AI-based Machine Learning Improves Attack Detection Accuracy to Create a Nearly “Set and Forget” Web Application Firewall News Summary Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the latest version of its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)software release 6.0, making it the only major WAF security vendor to use machine learning for behavioral-based threat detection in web applications. The new innovations to FortiWeb provide a dramatic increase in detecting web application threats with nearly 100 percent accuracy. Increased threat detection accuracy enables faster response times for “set and forget” automated blocking, eliminating … Continue reading Fortinet Introduces Machine Learning Capabilities to its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall for Advanced Behavioral Threat Detection