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Fortinet targets branch offices with upgraded firewalls

Network World

Fortinet has refreshed its branch office firewalls, adding power and features to its next-generation FortiGate G-series devices. FortiManager lets customers create and deploy security policies across multiple firewalls, simplifying administration in large, distributed enterprises, according to Fortinet.

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Fortinet consolidates SD-WAN and SASE management

Network World

Tighter integration between Fortinet's SASE and SD-WAN offerings is among the new features enabled by the latest version of the company's core operating system. FortiOS version 7.4 also includes better automation across its Security Fabric environment, and improved management features.

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Fortinet tightens integration of enterprise security, networking controls

Network World

has 300 new features including AI support to help stop network threats more quickly, sandboxing to help fight ransomware threats, and improved SD-WAN , branch, and edge orchestration. FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components. FortiOS 7.2, How to choose an edge gateway.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, 5G is now used in more situations, such as in factories and for drone operations. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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How to choose a flexible unified SASE solution

Network World

When deployed properly, SASE, which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security via SSE, enables all users and devices, regardless of location, to securely access an organization’s hybrid network. However, it’s still important to assess how well SD-WAN and SSE are connected within a SASE solution.

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Fortinet adds wireless and IoT security features to SASE platform

Network World

The vendor added the new features to its FortiSASE offering, which includes SD-WAN, secure web gateway, firewall as a service, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) , all running on top of its FortiOS operating system.

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We’re in the Unified SASE Era. What’s next?

Network World

First era of network security: The stateful firewall In the beginning, networking was created on the principle of trusting everyone and connecting everything as fast as possible. In the mid-1990s, the industry’s response was to create the stateful firewall, designed to control access to private networks.

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