It’s hard to imagine a solution that only takes five minutes to greatly enhance work-from-anywhere capabilities, improve performance, and boost security.
But you don’t have to imagine it. It’s already here, thanks to Fortinet.
Solution providers who partner with Fortinet can deliver a single-vendor SD-WAN and SASE solution to their customers, with enhanced technology to boost performance for a work-from-anywhere workforce.
How big of a deal is the ability to work from anywhere? Last year, Stanford University researcher Nicholas Bloom determined that about 100 million workers worldwide now work remotely at least one or two days per week.
What’s more, employment consultant Robert Half has found that 60 percent of all job seekers in the U.S. would prefer a hybrid work environment. So solution provider customers will be challenged to support that dynamic with both secure and efficient technology.
That can boost a solution provider’s customers by making them more efficient. However, according to Fortinet, providing a single-vendor solution that combines SD-WAN with FortiSASE (cloud-delivered security) can reduce complexity and cost, allowing solution providers to integrate it in as little as five minutes.
FortiSASE now incorporates native SD-WAN functionalities within each Point of Presence (POP), seamlessly integrating with existing FortiGate SD-WAN Hub or Next-Generation Firewalls in data centers.
Traditional remote access methods are plagued by performance issues and latency, resulting in a poor user experience for remote workers. These methods also struggle with maintaining consistent security policies, creating a gap in protection between on-premises and remote users.
This inconsistency complicates management and heightens security vulnerabilities, especially when remote workers access the internet and SaaS applications. Furthermore, these traditional solutions often lack comprehensive backup options, jeopardizing business continuity. Managing remote users and devices through various tools adds significant operational complexity and overhead.
Combining SD-WAN with FortiSASE is critical to combining security and networking into a powerful solution for the customer. Fortinet has been the pioneer in this combination, and a single-vendor, Fortinet solution is a natural extension of the Fortinet Security Fabric.
It just works; it reduces complexity, and it allows a customer to leverage a hybrid work environment with efficiency and strong cybersecurity.