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CommScope Explains What IoT, 5G, and Smart Cities All Have In Common

MEC Digital — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:10:32 +0000

CommScope’s Morne Erasmus explains what IoT, 5G and smart cities all have in common.

Read any tech news story today and chances are high that you’ll see something concerning IoT, 5G or smart cities. These are all hot topics, but did you know all of them have CommScope in common?

To make things “smart” and improve overall efficiency, we connect IoT devices through a network to the cloud (and each other).

Thus, anything “smart” requires connectivity, both wired and wireless, at least in most cases. The 5G networks of the future can bring refined connectivity to these edge IoT devices with higher speeds, more machine-to-machine connections, and extremely low latencies – enabling a brand new generation of applications and use cases that we haven’t yet thought of.

Once we connect all the eyes and ears (IoT sensors) of the world to the data center brain, we can begin generating intelligent information to drive new analytics and services. As well, more processing power is shifting to the edge, with the deployment of MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) moving closer to the particular endpoints and users to enable lower-latency applications.

All of these IoT edge devices and MECs need a home near to the users, that is why we are seeing city streetlights morphing into smart poles.

Streetlights are uniquely spaced throughout the city; they provide power and altitude and are prepared for remodeling with LED replacements. Today, cities are eyeing 2 kinds of smart poles for replacing legacy streetlights:

IoT streetlight pole – A streetlight pole can support public Wi-Fi deployments, environmental sensors, gunfire detection and LED lighting control upgrades. Adding IoT edge devices transforms humble streetlight poles into smart IoT poles.
Telco pole – These are the typical small cell poles deployed by carriers or neutral hosts to support cellular connectivity in dense areas. These poles are designed for connectivity and will play a crucial role in 5G mmWave deployments. By adding IoT devices, simple telco poles become smart telco poles. With telco poles, the connectivity backbone delivering a path between the edge and also the cloud is already established, thereby enabling quicker deployments. Thanks to the larger type factor of small cell equipment, physical constraints should be an early and primary guideline for aesthetic concealment in cities.

It should be noted that smart poles are a part of a smart ecosystem and no single company can go at this alone. We are constantly asked if CommScope has any plans to create IoT sensors, software, apps or services for smart poles and our answer is “no, we need an ecosystem.” put simply, these interconnected products and services require multiple players to work harmonical to offer complex services.

This is why the industry must support an open ecosystem that enables customers to decide on their own edge devices, software, and cloud providers. This is notably important because of the long lifecycle (decades) of public projects compared to typical enterprise (years) engagements. Additionally, regulatory guidelines should also be considered.

At CommScope, we offer the physical layer for smart poles and do that exceptionally well. This starts with the fiber and copper solutions connecting all the racks inside a data center. From there, we offer outside fiber solutions to connect these data centers to the central offices (head ends) for the carriers and to the business/home or macro/metro cell tower. At these endpoints, we usually see the conversion from wireline to licensed or unlicensed spectrum wireless.

These wireless networks also are experiencing constant changes where licensed (4G/5G) and unlicensed (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, etc.) are commencing to converge. For instance, smart buildings are expected to produce reliable cellular coverage within the building along with ubiquitous Wi-Fi and support for IoT wireless networks. Add the upcoming CBRS private networking play and we shortly realize we are building multiple networks under one roof – all delivering ones and zeros to endpoints. How can all these networks converge in the future?

By providing the connectivity piece in this advanced puzzle, CommScope adds tremendous value to the client. we will still build out our ecosystem so we can provide complete solutions with our partners. So, the next time you read something regarding IoT, 5G or smart city projects, know that we at CommScope are providing the wired and wireless connectivity to make the world even smarter with our #smartcityconnectivity

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Mitel: Questions To Ask Your Vendor About Secured Communications

MEC Digital — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:44 +0000

5 Questions Ask To Your Vendor About Secure Communications

Are your communications secure?

Secure communications can defend your business from the harm and destruction of a data breach. And it’s not only for healthcare providers – even daily workplace emails and phone calls can contain information that matters to your customers.

A business that fails to secure its communications is in peril of losing client confidence, that means customers, and future customers, won’t be likely to trust that business.

To ensure secure communications, search for a communications system that can defend the data shared inside your business and beyond. Here are a couple of questions you can raise your vendor to make sure you’re getting the most effective security:

1. What Infrastructure Is Your System Hosted On?

A strong cloud communications provider will be leveraging a best-in-class infrastructure to make sure the very best level of security. This saves you time and resources that can be focused on performance and innovation instead of management and maintenance. Search for a secure communications software system, such as MiCloud Connect, built on Google Cloud, to integrate with the programs you already use.

2. Can Your Communications Software Handle Mobile Securely?

Working on the go is a growing norm, which means mobility is even more vital for a communications system. However, a mobile system doesn’t always mean it’s secure. Make sure you can take your system on the go to keep working while away from the workplace, without sacrificing your in-office functionality and security.

3. Is Your Communications Software Certified HIPAA-Compliant?

Certified HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant software guarantees that your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with anti-virus protection and security protocols that adhere to the most rigorous data compliance standards. In creating MiCloud Connect, we worked with third-party auditors to meet restrictive compliance needs and passed strict safeguards and confidentiality tests to make sure the privacy and safety of your data.

4. How Do You Monitor Your System?

Your cloud communications provider ought to have a Network Operations Center, a location that regularly monitors a telecommunications network, all day, every day. Do they support it in-house or out-source? What tools and analytics are they leveraging to stay ahead? Top providers are predictive and proactive, not reactive.

5. How Do I get Informed Of Any Issues?

No system is perfect, problems will appear, but if they do occur with your communications system, you need to know about it quickly. Transparency is everything. Is your provider proactive in their communications? how do they alert you once issues arise? Is there a public site where you can stay up to date regarding any problems and their solutions?

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A Peek Inside Aruba’s Smart Digital Workplace Ecosystem

MEC Digital — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:38:26 +0000

The Workplace of the Future is Here Today

Aruba is collectively tackling the distinctive intersection of physical design and workplace technology to continually evolve our ‘future of work’ vision.

The latest santa clara headquarters design combines Aruba’s networking and location technologies to deal with key use cases. This provides advantages for workers and facilities groups. The workplace includes partner innovations like connected furniture, wireless charging, phone pods, and soundscaping.

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Forcepoint Recognized As A Visionary For 3rd Year In A Row, In The Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant For Network Firewalls

MEC Digital — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 06:21:46 +0000

For the 3rd year in a row, Forcepoint is once again recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls

Third time’s a charm, the old saying goes. And, for the third year in a row, Gartner has named Forcepoint a Visionary in their 2019 Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for the ability to execute and its completeness of vision. With Forcepoint NGFW, we particularly want to assist distributed organizations to better connect and defend their remote offices, stores and branches so that they can take advantage of the cloud to drive bigger productivity and lower costs.

To set the stage for its analysis this year, Gartner begins its report* by highlighting a key industry trend: “With firewall providers embedding multiple security features in firewalls and enabling integration and automation capabilities with other security products, firewalls are evolving into network security platforms.”

We strongly agree. And while each vendor talks about having a platform, we see 3 components as being of crucial importance:

1.) Enterprise connectivity – Digital transformation is driving distributed organizations to make additional use of cloud apps and direct web connections for sites and users. as one of the primary vendors to assemble Multi-Link VPN, Secure SD-WAN capabilities, and advanced clustering in our network firewalls, we see ensuring that users and information may be connected and guarded robustly as two sides of a similar coin.

2.) Extensible Security – As organizations disrupt the way they connect their remote sites and users, old ways of securing those connections should change. Customers are progressively telling us they’re searching for tight integration among their network (NGFW), web (SWG), and cloud app (CASB) security systems—no matter where their users are operating.

3.) Management at Scale – Some of the less-frequently mentioned areas of excellent security platforms can be summarized by the quantity of effort it takes to urge sites and users connected and protected. Through experience managing thousands of websites from a single pane of glass, we’ve found that capabilities like zero-touch provisioning and interactive analysis for quicker incident response are crucial to efficiency in global as well as local operations.

It’s an honor to be referred to as a Visionary. We created Forcepoint to bring a brand new approach to the cybersecurity industry—to help customers to break free from the endless cycle of throwing billions of dollars at threat once threat without very feeling any safer. but even more necessary than vision is the ability to turn good concepts into effective solutions. That’s why our human-centric approach to security and our new cloud-based platform is designed specifically to enable enterprises and government agencies to better understand user behavior and intent so they can more efficiently and securely bring people and information along.

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CommScope Recognized As One Of The Best In The Industry By Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Award 2019

MEC Digital — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:03:23 +0000

Three solutions from CommScope that received 2019 Cabling Installation and Maintenance Innovations Awards

Three CommScope products and systems are recognized among the best within the industry by the 2019 Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Awards. A stellar third-party judging panel, which included cabling and communications system specifiers, designers, integrators and managers with vast professional experience, selected CommScope’s Copper LC-style connector, Ceiling Connector Assembly and imVision as award winners.

CommScope was recognized as an honoree across 3 categories:

Platinum Award: IEC 63171-1 Copper LC-style connector. With billions of IoT devices expected to be deployed in workplace buildings within the next 5 years, the Copper LC-style Connector gives a cost-effective wired solution that’s simple to deploy and can provide power and secure communications to end devices while maintaining a tiny form factor to support high-density applications.

Gold Award: Ceiling Connector Assembly. The Ceiling Connector provides maximum performance, flexibility, and sturdiness with the most simplified termination to ensure high-quality results in usually challenging operating locations, like over drop ceilings. Once installed, the plug-ended link can be used to connect to cameras, access points, and alternative ceiling-mounted devices.

Silver Award: imVision Enhancements. imVision is an automated infrastructure management system that helps IT departments create astute network connectivity decisions in real-time. With imVision enhancements, IT departments will monitor Power over LAN (PoE) distribution via in-building cabling infrastructure to ensure optimum operational conditions. Enhanced imVision provides a real-time view of the PoE state of each cable bundle and automatically updates cable status whenever changes are made. This capability ensures that cable installation bundle sizes are tailored to fit specific installation necessities.

“On behalf of the Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Awards, I would like to congratulate CommScope on their platinum, gold and silver honoree status,” said Cabling Installation & Maintenance’s Chief Editor Patrick McLaughlin. “This competitive, unbiased program celebrates the most original and innovative products in the industry.”

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Aruba Named As the Sole Leader in the Forrester New Wave

MEC Digital — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 05:44:51 +0000

“Aruba Leads the Pack” is how Forrester puts it in their recent report, The Forrester New Wave: Wireless Solutions, Q3 2019 – The Eight Solutions That Matter Most and How They Stack Up. The objective of the report is to assist infrastructure and operations professionals to choose the proper partner for their requirements for both Wi-Fi and the burgeoning need to connect a large range of IoT devices and protocols as a part of their digital transformation.

Aruba is the only vendor within the “Leaders” class, delivering, in our opinion, a commanding performance that features a differentiated rating, the highest possible in 6 out of the 10 evaluation criteria provided by Forrester:

Wireless connectivity
Wireless hardware
Spectrum/device visibility
Security
Solution positioning
Road map

Forrester’s view that the new wave of wireless solutions embodies wayfinding, location services, and IoT connectivity aligns closely with the capabilities in Aruba’s wireless portfolio. As Aruba’s CTO, Partha Narasimham says, “the network has become the central nervous system” for IT – enabling services that offer location data and real-time directions, visibility into assets and other people to boost operations and connecting Internet-of-things (IoT) devices to the business to support digital transformation.

Wi-Fi As An IoT Platform is More Than Connectivity

The world of IoT comprises various device types but conjointly a wide variety of protocols. Wi-Fi 6, Zigbee and Bluetooth 5 enable “things” from door locks to electronic shelf labels to insulin monitors to act with the network in order to deliver exceptional user experiences and value to the business.

Traditionally, it’s needed to stand up overlay networks to accommodate these protocols, but now, as highlighted within the Forrester report, wireless connectivity solutions should expand beyond Wi-Fi. For this reason, Aruba has integrated support for IoT protocols in our latest Wi-Fi 6 access points and can be allowing new IoT growth radios to assist existing customers to maximize investment protection – for additional data, look into our IoT session at mobility Field Day 4. But you don’t become the leader of the pack by stopping at easy connectivity. Aruba starts at the start of the IoT value chain to deliver a holistic solution—from setup to application integration to a business result. Beyond the networking infrastructure, the main focus of our IoT solution is to simply enable third-party integrations with our ArubaEdge partners, which include:

Siemens – for converged, plant-wide networks that bridge OT and IT.
EnOcean – for connected lighting, sensors, and different systems
SES-Imagotag – for electronic shelf labels
Solu-M – for electronic shelf labels
Zebra Technologies – for tablets, imagers, scanners, and printers
ZF Openmatics – for industrial-grade asset tracking solutions
And additional partners listed on our IoT ecosystem

The Aruba wireless LAN is front-and-center, providing Dynamic Segmentation to deliver intelligent deep packet review that isolates mission-critical applications, separates them from the remainder of the network and forwards their traffic to the suitable destination. This level of insight is essential to make sure that the network is optimized for the convergence of IoT systems while minimizing the impact on mobile users.

Based on Forrester’s evaluation, Aruba is the best fit for corporations needing advanced wireless services – and this is why we believe they named Aruba as the Leader in this business-critical spectrum.

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Forcepoint: Best Practices For A Data Breach Response Plan

MEC Digital — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:46:42 +0000

Data breaches happen, however they aren’t necessarily the end of an organization. In several cases, a breach is an inflection point, with the organization coming back stronger. With a data breach response plan, corporations have an improved probability of mitigating the negative consequences of a breach.

By following these best practices for a knowledge breach response arrange, corporations are ready to retain business, customers, and shift the whole perception within the market.

1. Prepare with a data Breach Response plan.

While breaches could vary in nature, having a solid blueprint to arrange can streamline a timely response. First, recruit the key organizational players that should be involved. who should be on your incident response team? Typical players embody Human Resources, Legal, Governance, Business Continuity Officers, Information Technology, Security, and Communications – however, it varies based on your organization. Gathering the stakeholders and documenting a response plan with detailed actions and owners ensures an outlined path for the initial steps. Don’t forget to incorporate a list of extra partners to engage such as authorities, law firms, PR firms, and security groups to concentrate on breach incident and response.

2. Be transparent and timely.

Large breaches don’t remain secrets for long, and the timeframe of exposure is a measurement within the public eye. it’s necessary to make sure fast communication and response to breaches. Communicate among the organization, as well as with customers and partners who can be affected, with clarity on what happened and also the next steps. Work with any applicable regulatory bodies to ensure adherence to laws or regulations. For instance, a GDPR incident response plan would guarantee disclosure to the right authority within 72 hours of discovering the occurrence of a breach. Failure to do so may subject your organization to hefty fines. A decent rule of thumb is having a 24-48 hour response plan – particularly if personal information was breached, or user credentials may be compromised. Make sure that you’re releasing information quickly, and advising customers on options or actions that might limit or eliminate exposure.

3. Construct your communication strategy.

The majority of breaches’ initial assessments underestimate the impact. Given this factor, it’s vital to assume the worst cases and begin to reach out proactively. This might mean credit reporting companies, financial firms, and theft protection services, along with PR and the news media. An amazing tactic to have prepared are email templates that might provide communication across the digital landscape (social media, email, website, response/KB articles with details, blogs), along with your announcement and any customer portals you may have.

4. Determine the root cause beyond the technical aspects.

Ascertaining the technical details of a breach is important. Understanding how people act with technical tools is paramount to understanding breaches – including but not exclusive to phishing. whether it’s upkeep, maintenance/patching, best practices in architecture, audit/reporting, data model flow mapping, identity/credentials, and access management, or beyond – it involves individuals and business processes. Understanding the human component involved is crucial to fulfill ing the challenge of security.

5. Strengthen your posture, don’t just remediate.

Developing a sturdy security posture is an ongoing effort. Immediate remediation steps are vital, however, it’s more crucial to look at risk exposure over time to ensure data and IP protection. This might take the form of response planning for the security organization, or instituting coaching to fortify the data protection strategy. It takes long-term investment.

Securing a company is like competing in a track meet: there is a range of challenges, from immediate, short-term needs like sprints and hurdles, to the endurance and strategy needed for long-distance events, to the specialized skill-sets needed for events like the shot put and pole jumping. It takes long term strategy, planning, and partnering with the proper team to make a winning legacy — equating to long-term brand equity. wherever you’re in your journey as an enterprise, whether you’re racing to the cloud or focusing on safeguarding important IP in a new service or offering, Forcepoint continues to invest in innovation around data protection to partner with organizations on their overall security approach. let us know how we can help!

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Aruba Named As A Leader in 2019 Magic Quadrant For Wired And Wireless Access Infrastructure By Gartner

MEC Digital — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:23:57 +0000

We excited to share that for fourteen years running, Gartner has once again positioned HPE (Aruba), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, as a leader within the Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure. We believe you don’t get to be a leader without the backing and support of the customers who implement the technology. Our Leader placement is a validation of Aruba’s mobile-first, cloud-native, AI-driven vision and our ability to deliver extremely valued wired and wireless capabilities to the market.

Dynamic Segmentation utilizes user role, device, application, and location insights from Aruba’s Policy enforcement Firewall (PEF) to section and isolate wired and wireless traffic based on centralized policies managed by ClearPass Policy Manager.

Commitment to improving customer outcomes

Our core strategy is to provide solutions that deliver world-class experiences for IT operators and their users. the following capabilities are a testament to that strategy:

Security and Compliance – Security is at the heart of the Aruba solution and is used in a range of key use cases to provide IT with advanced visibility and management. employing a distinctive, software-defined approach to policy, Aruba’s Dynamic Segmentation capability dramatically simplifies network operations by abstracting segmentation from the underlying infrastructure. A complement to Dynamic Segmentation, Aruba’s new ClearPass Device Insight (CDI) is purpose-built to handle the challenges related to securing IoT devices that can’t authenticate. It leverages machine learning and crowdsourcing to automate the discovery and fingerprinting of all IoT devices on any wired or Wi-Fi network – regardless of the vendor. ClearPass Device Insight’s cloud delivery platform leverages shared community learnings to spot newly-introduced devices and automates authentication and policy enforcement down to the device and user level. If any device exhibits abnormal behavior, ClearPass will automatically quarantine or remove it from the network mitigating the safety risk. Learn more regarding CDI here.
Automation – From provisioning to troubleshooting to remediation, Aruba has worked closely with customers to spot common challenges in an attempt to simplify the lives of IT operators. By introducing automation into the network life cycle, IT can take advantage of closed-loop monitoring, troubleshooting, and remediation to optimize the network experience and accelerate problem-solving. AOS-CX is a marquee example of how this can be delivered to enterprise networks. Learn more during this blog by Tom Black, and dive deeper into switching innovations like NetEdit and the Network Analytics Engine (NAE).
Artificial Intelligence – to retort quickly to dynamic business desires, IT should unendingly optimize the allocation of its resources to target strategic company priorities. Aruba’s comprehensive and various information sample size, combined with decades of domain and information science experience, is manufacturing helpful security and network configuration outcomes that free IT operators to target strategic priorities that grow the business. each device and connection is treated as a network sensor, proactively gathering and analyzing information to detect potential network problems and suggest corrective actions before they impact end-users. Learn more from HPE Discover 2019.

Aruba’s Edge Architecture

As our customers commence a journey through today’s mobile, IoT, and cloud era, Aruba’s edge architecture provides the intelligence, automation, and flexibility needed to achieve higher security, assurance, and agility. Extending across campus and branch environments, Aruba designed our solutions to be cloud-native, and ensure a uniform IT experience and seamless connectivity for end-users and IoT.

About the Magic Quadrant

Gartner doesn’t endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its analysis publications, and doesn’t advise technology users to select solely those vendors with the best ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of truth. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, concerning this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, Bill Menezes, Tim Zimmerman, Christian Canales, Mike Toussaint, 24 September 2019 Aruba’s 14 years of placement includes HPE (Aruba) within the Magic Quadrant for the Wired & Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure from 2015-2019 (5 years), Aruba Networks in the same Magic Quadrant from 2012-2014 (3 years) and in the Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure from 2006-2011 (6 years).

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Mitel: Omnichannel Vs. Multichannel, Which One’s Better?

MEC Digital — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:23:34 +0000

A recent study discovered that 69 percent of web users would consult their smartphones for product reviews in-store rather than search out a sales associate. More than half would also buy deals on their smartphones while in the store.

These statistics prove that businesses, especially retailers, ought to give multiple channels for customers to interact and communicate with them. But while numerous organizations support more than one channel, several aren’t doing it effectively.

This is where the distinction between omnichannel and multichannel becomes vital. These terms are thrown around for years, however, there’s usually confusion over precisely what they mean. While they have similarities, there’s also an enormous difference⁠—and that can make or break your business.

Let’s take a more in-depth look at what each term means, why omnichannel is the better approach for your business, and how the correct technology will get you there.

The Basics: The Distinction Between Omnichannel And Multichannel

Both omnichannel and multichannel involve selling products or services across more than one channel; after all, your business has both a physical and digital presence. The main distinction comes right down to the customer experience.

In the multichannel universe (where most businesses live), the various channels aren’t connected. You will have a physical and a digital store, however, each one has its inventory. Customers might not be able to return online purchases within the physical store.

When it comes to communications, the multichannel experience is again siloed. A client can’t simply switch from one method of communication to another. They need to start the conversation all over again and repeat their info, which results in frustration and wasted time.

The omnichannel experience, on the opposite hand, breaks down these siloes. The customer experience takes center stage and is seamless. Customers will engage with products and services while moving between channels without any interruption in their journey. This applies to browse for products and services as well as communication. Once you break down these barriers, the benefits of omnichannel over multichannel are clear.

5 Advantages of Omnichannel

The omnichannel customer experience outperforms multichannel in many ways. Here we focus on the main advantages when it comes to communicating and delivering superior client service.

Create a customer experience hub. With an omnichannel approach, your contact center transforms into a hub, giving agents and executives a full view of the customer journey. When interacting with customers, the hub has the power to seamlessly transition from one communications channel to another.

Reps can send an SMS to a client in the middle of their chat session. Or they can switch from chat to a voice call with one click⁠—without losing any client details in the process.

Gain a deeper understanding of customers. the combination of cloud communications, machine learning, and AI permits businesses to analyze client communications across all channels, together with social media. Identify potential issues and client complaints so they can be addressed before becoming a true issue.

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Fortinet Named As A Leader In The 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant For Network Firewalls

MEC Digital — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:03:51 +0000

Fortinet has been recognized as one of the Leaders among the 18 vendors included within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls report for 2019. We believe this recognition showcases our clear understanding of market needs, both as an innovator and a thought leader. We feel, it conjointly highlights our current commitment to providing the IT community, and our over 415,000 customers around the world, with the best possible protection for today’s refined and highly distributed networks.

A Commitment to Innovation and Thought Leadership

With nearly 630 patents—more than any other vendor— we feel/we are confident/we believe, Fortinet is number one in proven cybersecurity innovation. And as networks continue to undergo a fast and ongoing transformation, the underlying security design must be able to position to adapt and scale in an approach that enables organizations to understand their business objectives. This clear vision of the needs of each today’s and tomorrow’s networks has enabled us to continually be at the forefront of thought leadership and product development.

A Powerful Security-Driven Networking Approach

A crucial component of our current success is our distinctive security-driven networking approach, which integrates security into each component of the network to assist customers to increase efficiencies across their infrastructure, correlates threat intelligence, and respond to detected threats in an exceedingly unified fashion. It conjointly prevents the types of security gaps in policy, functionality, and enforcement that are typically the results of a more traditional, ad hoc approach to security.

With a security-driven networking strategy in place, FortiGate Network Firewalls guarantee consistent, end-to-end protection across all crucial network edges—from campuses and data centers to branch offices and multi-cloud deployments.

Securing the Extended Network

Secure SD-WAN: Fortinet is one of the primary vendors to deliver an enterprise-class SD-WAN solution using custom-built ASIC technology combined with totally integrated advanced security to support and protect distributed WAN locations. As a part of a security-driven networking strategy, Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution allows organizations to increase crucial business applications to remote locations, improve user experience, and lower WAN costs while not compromising their security posture.

Cloud security: FortiGate network firewalls offer advanced security for even the most complicated multi-cloud environments with broad support for all of the highest IaaS providers, as well as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Alibaba. This enables customers to leverage consistent multi-layer security protection, automation, and deep integrations no matter how many clouds they adopt using cloud-native solutions within every cloud, and seamless policy and enforcement translations between totally different cloud environments.

Accelerate On-Ramp to the Cloud: Fortinet’s high-performance data center and SD-WAN solutions accelerate cloud on-ramp by providing high-speed connectivity and deep SSL inspection to the multi-cloud. With FortiGate network firewalls, organizations can deliver an excellent user experience while achieving clear visibility and inspection of all SSL and TLS traffic, whether or not on-premises or within the cloud.

High-speed inspection of SSL and TLS encrypted traffic: With encrypted traffic currently comprising over 70th of total network traffic and 60 minutes of attacks using SSL or TLS to infiltrate networks and exfiltration data, organizations place themselves at serious risk once SSL/TLS inspection isn’t turned on. For many network firewalls, however, inspecting encrypted traffic results in huge performance hits, leading to the type of performance bottlenecks that today’s digital businesses cannot afford. Using advanced physical and virtual security processors (SPUs), FortiGate solutions offer the very best price/performance rates within the industry. And Fortinet is that the sole vendor to currently support TLS v1.3.

Single pane of glass management: Fortinet is additionally the only vendor to supply comprehensive management of a full suite of advanced security solutions, regardless of where they’re deployed through a single pane of glass management system. FortiManager simplifies management with a single console, or it can be extended across a tiered management strategy or integrated into a strong NOC/SOC solution for consistent configuration, orchestration, and compliance across even the foremost broadly distributed network.

More Gartner Peer Insights Reviews Than any other vendor for Enterprise Network Firewall

Of course, we believe leadership is about much more than industry accolades, that is why we are therefore happy with the fact that a majority of the Fortune 500 corporations trust Fortinet to secure their most important assets. However each business, large or small, deserves a similar level of protection, that is why our solutions are universally adopted by such a big amount of organizations both large and small – more than 415,000 and growing! Gartner Peer Insights portal for the Enterprise Network Firewalls market lists Fortinet’s FortiGate Enterprise Firewall with the highest overall customer reviews than all other solutions (based on 1,438 reviews as of 13 Sept 2019).

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