Cisco picks Fortinet to deliver SDN security

BANGALORE: Fortinet's FortiGate next-generation firewall platform has been deployed by Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Software Defined Networking, or SDN, fabric.

FortiGate integration with ACI will provide customers with firewall, advanced intrusion prevention (IPS), threat management and other security features running Cisco networking fabric, for a variety of cloud and data center use cases.

“Fortinet is dedicated to providing the greatest levels of security across multiple environments,” said Rajesh Maurya, Country manager, India and SARRC at Fortinet.

“We have been executing on a broad cloud and SDN vision and strategy to meet customer requirements as they look toward greater speed and agility in deploying applications and business services. By extending our efforts to Cisco’s ACI, the most requested SDN platform in the industry, Fortinet is fulfilling an integral piece of its overall strategy, and affirming our leadership position in data center security.”

Working with Cisco, Fortinet is able to extend the agility and operational benefits of SDN security solutions, delivered from physical or virtual FortiGate security appliances, enabling customers to reduce operating expenses, strengthen security and derive more value from their investments in Cisco ACI and Fortinet security.

“Cisco ACI provides an open framework with open APIs that support a broad ecosystem of industry leaders,” said Soni Jiandani, SVP, Cisco. “This allows our customers the ability to take advantage of their preferred vendors and solutions when they deploy ACI. ACI policy-based automation for both physical and virtual resources combined with the Fortinet FortiGate firewall platform delivers security and network automaton for our joint customers.”