The Fortinet Security Fabric addresses the security challenges mentioned above by providing broad visibility and control of an organization’s entire digital attack surface to minimize risk, an integrated solution that reduces the complexity of supporting multiple point products, and automated workflow to increase the speed of operation.

Broad attack surface visibility

With organizational perimeters expanding as a result of DI transformations, the attack surface also expands. The Fortinet Security Fabric addresses the challenge of an expanding attack surface by providing an organization with end-to-end security and visibility across their network infrastructure. With the broadest range of highperformance, security-driven networking solutions for data centers, branch offices and small business, and all major cloud providers, the Fortinet Security Fabric flexes to protect every segment of the network.

All components are configured, managed, and monitored from a single centralized management system. In addition to eliminating the silos associated with point product security infrastructures, the single interface for all security components reduces the training burden on lean staffs. The management system also facilitates zero-touch deployment of remote components, saving truck rolls and further reducing operating costs.

Integrated security architecture

With all components driven by the same FortiOS network operating system, the Fortinet Security Fabric enables consistent configuration and policy management and effortless, real-time communication across the security infrastructure. This minimizes threat detection and mitigation times, reduces security risks resulting from configuration errors and manual data compilation, and facilitates timely and accurate compliance audit response.

In addition to integrating Fortinet products and solutions, the Security Fabric includes prebuilt application programming interface (API) connections for more than 70 Fabric-Ready Partners that ensure deep integration across all of the Security Fabric elements.

For security products that are not part of the Fabric-Ready Partner ecosystem, representational state transfer (REST) APIs and development operations (DevOps) scripts make it easy and fast for customers to add them to the Security Fabric.

Automated operations, orchestration, and response

In addition to seamless integration, the Fortinet Security Fabric is leading the industry in applying machine-learning (ML) technologies to keep up with the rapidly evolving cyber-threat landscape. The Fortinet Security Fabric includes advanced security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) capabilities, as well as proactive threat detection, threat correlation, intelligence-sharing alerts, and threat research and analysis.

Expediting incident response activities also requires ensuring that security staff is not distracted by other concerns, such as collecting data for and generating reports for regulatory compliance or the C-suite. Here, the Fortinet Security Fabric offers automated log aggregation, data correlation, and generation of reports using built-in templates.

Security Fabric Solutions

The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers solutions in five key areas: zero-trust access, security-driven networking, dynamic cloud security, AI-driven security operations, and the alliance ecosystem. Each of these includes best-in-class, awardwinning solutions that have been evaluated and recommended by leading third-party tests, such as NSS Labs, and recognized by leading analysts, such as Gartner.^29,30

Manage the Risks, Pursue the Opportunities

DI enables organizations to achieve new levels of efficiency and cost savings for itself and improved experiences for its customers. However, DI initiatives also expand and change the organization’s attack surface, opening up new attack vectors for cyber threats to exploit.

For organizations leading the charge in DI, acknowledging, accepting, and properly managing risks is of paramount importance. The Fortinet Security Fabric is the foundation for this. It unifies security solutions behind a single pane of glass, makes the growing digital attack surface visible, integrates AI-driven breach prevention, and automates operations, orchestration, and response. In sum, it enables organizations to