The days of implicitly trusting users to connect over the WAN or VPN to reach the private resources they need access to are over. In this exclusive interview, Jason Gintert discusses Fortinet Secure SD-WAN with Nirav Shah, VP of Products and Solutions at Fortinet. Security has to be at the heart of the WAN and Fortinet had the foresight to see this from the start. Many of the initial pure-play vendors are playing catch-up by bolstering their offerings with security now as threats like ransomware and other zero-day attacks become more common. Fortinet built their SD-WAN platform from the ground up with security in mind and was one of the first to do so. When it came to ways to secure and monitor this network traffic, that’s where things get a little trickier. SD-WAN fits these needs perfectly, which explains the interest and rapid adoption of it. Applications migrating to the public cloud required new connection paradigms to replace aging models of static closed networks like MPLS. When software-defined wide area networking or SD-WAN first came about, many “pure-play” solutions focused only on the networking aspects of wide-area networks.
Why the buzz? What really sets Fortinet Secure SD-WAN apart? Secure SD-WAN So much so that Fortinet is now earning top marks with globally recognized market analyst firms and is demonstrating leadership in the space. Fortinet’s implementation has evolved quickly in the past few years. Fortinet entered the SD-WAN space a few years ago, adding the coveted feature to FortiOS, the single OS platform used on Fortinet products.
The portfolio started with next-generation firewalls and now spans many different Software-Defined Branch (SD-Branch) products, including switches and access points. With more than twenty years in network security, Fortinet makes secure network appliances available for almost every need.
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