Fortinet Secure SD-Branch brings security to corporate networks, even on a geographical scale

Fortinet announced the new Secure SD-Branch solution, composed of a collection of products to safe and access SD-WAN networks (software-defined geographically distributed networks), enabling geographically distributed businesses to use a single control point platform to manage their networks.

Fortinet Secure SD-Branch: Security is provided by SD-WAN Making secure networks is not an alternative. With the digital transformation and the flurry of fresh alternatives taking place, from software-defined networks to hybrid cloud architectures to software as service apps, it is essential to guarantee that networks are hard to penetrate. However, the rise in links also resulted in an rise in network limits, thus exposing a more susceptible region and making leadership more complicated. Fortinet seeks to alter the status quo by including a series of alternatives called Fortinet Secure SD-Branch.

These solutions strive to secure their networks in the outer world's "edge" or boundary regions, including the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls, FortiNAC Network Access Control, FortiSwitch and FortiAP Access Points. These elements are part of the Fortinet Security Fabric and allow the latter's protection to be extended to all company locations, wherever they are and whatever complexity they face, including companies that use the IoT extensively.

Thanks to the mixture of the different components, Fortinet Secure SD-Branch makes it possible to identify, classify and secure the different equipment connecting to the network, maintaining them under control with the assessment of their conduct that defines any malicious activity. Security and network access convergence provides a unified approach to the issue that improves safety level and simplifies management.

John Maddison, EVP of Fortinet's Products and Solutions Division, says that "to compete in today's digital economy, businesses need to deliver high-quality cloud links and safe access for customers and devices. Companies usually bring together excellent network and safety solutions that lead to a hard-to-change architecture that generates Fortinet Secure SD-Branch operating holes.