Great players can boost a team toward its goal, but it takes a full team to get it over the goal line. Think of cybersecurity in a similar way: great products can increase defenses, but a platform can help an organization meet its even greater goals.
By thinking about cybersecurity solutions in terms of an overall platform, which also includes network management, solution providers can help a customer protect its reputation, its own customers and an entire business.
Solution providers deliver more value in an approach where each point on a network works with the other points. There is no better example in IT than what Fortinet provides its channel partners. The company conceptualized its offering with the idea of building cybersecurity and networking into a single solution, and it’s been built on that premise ever since.
It provides robust products as part of a broader platform. Fortinet’s experts say that as infrastructure adapts to new realities like a hybrid workforce, new OT connectivity, and the need to protect applications across the cloud, creating interoperability from one point to the other – can simplify operations while integrating the pieces.
Case and point: two examples of how a platform approach outshines an individual product approach can be found through Fortinet's Hybrid Mesh Firewall and its Fortinet Unified SASE
Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF): This type of firewall centralizes firewall operations, strengthens security with unified policies, and simplifies policy management across complex network environments.
Unified SASE: Provides secure, integrated networking and security for every user on any device, regardless of location, all managed under a single platform.
In each case, a platform approach ensures solutions can meet a customer where it is.
When different points in the same enterprise are part of a single solution, it’s more likely that they are optimized to work together. When protecting an organization against cyber threats - that’s a necessity. Gaps that can emerge when products are not built as part of the same solution only make vulnerabilities more dangerous.
With Fortinet’s solutions-based approach, solution providers and their customers know they are getting consistent security everywhere.
Investing in a cohesive, unified approach to cybersecurity is more than just a strategic choice—it’s essential for protecting what matters most. And in secure networking, Fortinet has developed a strong playbook for solution providers and their customers.