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In case you haven’t seen it, there’s an interesting research note authored by Greg Young of Gartner that posits “one brand of firewall is a best practice for most enterprises.”  And, in particular we have to agree.  Why? Let’s...

(This is a continuation from last week, in which we discussed the distinction between big data and security and how they intersect. ) Most know that the there is often a big disparity between theory and reality. And nowhere is...

Slowly but surely, Application Control is changing the way most people think about traditional security policies. And in this day and age, it’s becoming a mainstay in a comprehensive security-driven environment. The reas...

It’s a fact: Today’s threats have made the threats of yesterday a vision in the rear-view mirror, along with the security counterparts developed to tackle them. It’s also quite known that the legacy firewall is easily circumven...

UPDATED Apr 17 with new information Today NSS Labs, an independent security testing organization, issued a report which states it found holes in five of six network firewalls. Fortinet was named as one of these firewalls, and ...

Earlier this week, independent analyst Richard Stiennon posted a video interview he did with Michael Xie. From Stiennon’s blog post: Michael Xie is CTO of Fortinet and drives all of their development of true “Next Gener...

This is the topic of an Interop panel featuring Anthony James, Fortinet vice president of products, and folks from Juniper Networks, Palo Alto Networks and Ashton, Metzler & Associates. The panel will be at 11:30 a.m. tomor...

Today was another big milestone in the history of the company I co-founded and I’m very happy to have this opportunity to tell you about it. Fortinet has released FortiOS 4.0, the firmware upgrade for our FortiGate securi...