Benzinga | Aug 25, 2021 09:07AM EDT

Fortinet Reports Its FortiGate Will Be First Firewall Integrated Into Dragos Platform

Fortinet's FortiGate and the Dragos Platform Integrate to Provide Joint Customers with Advanced Security and Simplified Deployment Across OT Organizations

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet

"Our new product integration of Fortinet's industry-leading FortiGate NGFW with the industry-leading Dragos Platform offers customers the unique opportunity to simplify security deployments and provides advanced security to OT environments around the world."

News Summary

Fortinet(r) (NASDAQ:FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced that Fortinet's FortiGate will be the first firewall integrated into the Dragos Platform, extending the benefits of the Security Fabric platform and leveraging its purpose-built Secure Processing Units (SPUs). The integration of the FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) with the Dragos Platform provides customers with an integrated and robust security solution delivering asset visibility, inventory, vulnerability management and threat detection for industrial asset owners.

Simplifying Security Deployments for OT Environments

Organizations face challenges selecting the right technologies to ensure optimal cybersecurity coverage of IT and OT environments while enabling effective workflows offered by combined technology integrations. Fortinet's FortiGate NGFW helps address these challenges by integrating with the Dragos Platform to provide response actions to threat detections. This complements FortiGate's capabilities by introducing OT-specific detections from the Dragos Platform that can be blocked by the firewall. Additionally, the integration removes the customer's burden of maintenance and technical debt and enables more automation around the cybersecurity attack surface. As a result, organizations save time, reduce errors associated with manual entry, and get more seamless protection with these two industry leading systems interacting in an automated way.

The new FortiGate integration adds to an existing Dragos Platform integration with FortiSIEM. Dragos customers can gain faster access to telemetry data for analytics, more automatable incident response, and enterprise customers gain more efficient control over multiple FortiGate deployments.

Fortinet Differentiators and Drivers for the Dragos Platform

Dragos benefits from Fortinet's industry-leading FortiGate NGFW as a result of the following differentiators:

* Security-Driven Networking: Fortinet is the only vendor that can tightly and thoroughly integrate top networking and security solutions seamlessly to become part of an organization's network, providing additional visibility.

* Fortinet Purpose-Built SPUs: Speed is the essence of detection and prevention and requires a platform like FortiGate that is powered by purpose-built NP7 and CP9. This starts with decrypting HTTP flows to ensure that once the hackers gain access into a network, they are not able to do command and control, download more malware, or demand for ransomware.

* FortiGuard Security Services: FortiGuard's security services provides coordinated, contextualized response which is key to disrupt threat kill chains. Fortinet's AI/ML powered IPS and antimalware services, Content Disarm and Reconstruct (CDR), Virus Outbreak Service (VOS), and integrations with Fortinet WAF prevent application-API attacks.

Fortinet's Open Fabric Ecosystem

Dragos is able to integrate with the Fortinet Security Fabric as part of the Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partner Program. The program brings together a community of global technology partners, like Dragos, with specialized expertise, and makes available resources and tools to facilitate integration. Fortinet collaborates with partners such as Dragos to deliver integrated end-to-end security solutions that leverage the industry-leading Fortinet Security Fabric.

Supporting Quotes

"We're excited to expand our significant partnership with Fortinet to include the addition of their industry-leading FortiGate NGFWs to the Dragos Platform. As a major provider of firewall technology, the technical integration with FortiGate is a milestone addition to the Dragos Platform. It enables us to combine our leading asset visibility, vulnerability management, threat detection, and response capabilities with FortiGate's network protection and control functionality to further secure industrial and operational technology processes for our joint customers."

-Jon Lavender, Chief Technology Officer, and Founder at Dragos

Additional Resources

* Learn more about how the Fortinet Security Fabric supports the security needs of Operational Technology

* Take a tour the Fortinet Security Fabric in action for industrial environments like those in manufacturing, energy, transportation and oil & gas

* Watch how Fortinet makes possible a digital world you can always trust.

* View how the Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protection across an organization's entire digital infrastructure.

* Read more about how Fortinet customers are securing their organizations.

* Learn more about Fortinet's free cybersecurity training, an initiative of Fortinet's Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), or about the Fortinet Network Security Expert program, Security Academy program, and Veterans program.

* Learn more about FortiGuard Labs global threat intelligence and research and the FortiGuard Security Subscriptions and Services portfolio.

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