Fortinet joins hands with Verizon Virtual Network Services

NEW DELHI: IT security vendor Fortinet announced that it has been selected as a vSecurity technology partner as part of Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ new Virtual Network Services.

The Fortinet Security Fabric will provide enterprise customers of Verizon Virtual Network Services with open, adaptive virtual security and actionable threat intelligence, turning network protection into a driver of business insight and agility.

A broad range of security features within the FortiGate virtual network function (VNF), including enterprise firewalls, FortiManager single pane of glass management, integrated threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs, data loss prevention, IP security, and intrusion detection system will enable enterprises to deploy advanced software-defined networking (SDN) security functions to protect all points in their network.

"The increasing complexity of the network from IoT to cloud-base d, mission-critical applications, coupled with the growing sophistication of cyber threats makes network security across the distributed enterprise a top business priority. The challenge is that traditional enterprise IT infrastructure struggles to keep pace with the growth of digital business dependence, requiring an on-demand, software-defined approach to network services and security," said Digitization of Business Requires Adaptive, Secure Networks at Scale.