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Turn Operational Chaos into Unified Control

Fortinet’s hybrid mesh firewall (HMF) approach enables organizations to secure complex, distributed networks with unmatched operational efficiency and performance. Our approach unifies FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments with centralized management and analytics. You can simplify and strengthen your security posture with consistent security enforcement and end-to-end visibility into the expanding attack surface and threat landscape.

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  • Single Security Fabric platform
    Fortinet’s integrated platform simplifies deployment and integration, consolidates security solutions, and reduces complexity and cost. This empowers you to interoperate and expand more efficiently with proven end-to-end protection.

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  • AI-powered protection and automation
    Fortinet’s GenAI and agentic AI-enabled management and analytics tools provide orchestrated control and visibility to enable network optimization and operational efficiency across locations, devices, users, and applications.

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  • Rich firewall portfolio for variety of use cases
    Fortinet’s flexible and cost-effective firewall solutions include appliances, VMs, and FWaaS, to enable deployment anywhere in the network, including cloud resources. You can secure your entire digital infrastructure with tailored, scalable protection.

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Address Today’s Challenges with Fortinet Hybrid Mesh Firewalls

Optimize data center security and performance

The Fortinet HMF approach enforces unified security policies to stop threats from exploiting weak points in the network, enabling FortiGate NGFWs for data centers to provide robust protection for east-west traffic without compromising application speed, zero-trust principles, or scalability. This accelerates network operations, protection, and risk mitigation.

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Secure connectivity across branch offices

Unified firewalling, SD-WAN, and LAN/WLAN controller in one NGFW helps organizations optimize secure connectivity, application performance, and user experience. With agentic AI management capabilities, Fortinet HMF enables organizations to automate security tasks and correct misconfigurations, while reducing operational costs.

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Unify cloud security and visibility

With centralized control across multi-cloud environments, Fortinet HMF enables consistent policy enforcement, real-time threat detection, and comprehensive insights into cloud workloads and potential vulnerabilities. This ensures secure access, regulatory compliance, and streamlined cloud operations.

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Intelligent, Scalable Protection for Hybrid Environments

Fortinet HMFs help meet the demands of future-proof networks with unified management and consistent security enabled via a single operating system. Our approach reduces complexity, boosts performance, and ensures resilience. No matter how complex your network infrastructure or security requirements are, Fortinet can help you stay ahead of evolving cyberthreats.

  • Unified security posture
    The Fortinet HMF approach simplifies policy enforcement and strengthens protection by consistently delivering AI-powered security services with real-time threat detection, proactive prevention, and automated response across the entire network.

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  • Single-pane visibility
    The Fortinet HMF approach delivers centralized control and actionable insights into risks with unified management, continuous monitoring, and intelligent analysis to ensure security and meet compliance.

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  • Optimized operational efficiency
    The Fortinet HMF approach consolidates multiple firewall solutions into a unified platform to reduce configuration complexity, accelerate network deployment, and streamline operational workflows by leveraging intuitive, GenAI-powered management.

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Analyst Recognition

2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall
2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN
Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Gartner Magic Quadrant Hybrid Mesh Firewall report
Fortinet Recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Fortinet has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall. We believe this reflects what security teams value most: performance, simplicity, and control. Our single-platform approach, unified policy, and built-in AI provide consistent protection across your entire hybrid environment to simplify and enhance your security posture.
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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN Figure 1. The figure ranks companies on their ability to execute and completeness of vision as of September 2024 on a scatter plot. Fortinet is in the upper right quadrant of Leaders.
Fortinet is a Leader and placed highest in Ability to Execute. AGAIN.

We’ve done it again! Fortinet is the only vendor to place highest in Ability to Execute four years in a row in the Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN. And we've been named a Leader for the fifth straight year. We believe this is because our innovative secure SD-WAN solution lets you uniquely:

  • Simplify your architecture by accelerating security and networking convergence
  • Achieve operational efficiencies across all WAN and cloud edges
  • Deliver seamless quality of experience to users

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is foundational for transforming and securing the WAN while enabling a robust, single-vendor SASE solution.

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The Total Economic Impact™ of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN: Cost Savings and Business Benefits Enabled by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. Published in December 2022. A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by Fortinet.
Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) Study Shows 300% ROI for Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Enterprise Deployments
Fortinet commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to analyze the value that enterprises are able to achieve by deploying Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. The TEI study examines both the network and security impact on businesses.
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Gartner Peer Reviews

At Fortinet, we strive to put our customers first, and we’re very proud to have again been named a 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Network Firewalls. This distinction, which customers have recognized us for the fifth year in a row, is based on over 200 reviews of our FortiGate Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). In addition to giving FortiGate high ratings, 91% of reviewers are willing to recommend Fortinet NGFWs. gartner customers choice 2024
★★★★★
"Fortigate Effectively Blocks Unwanted Traffic and Minimizes Attack Surface Risk"

“Fortinet has been a solid partner in the continuous improvement of our security posture. FortiGate helps block entire unwanted types of traffic in a dynamic manner that minimizes our visible attack surface area.”

— Senior Systems Officer in Manufacturing

★★★★★
"Fortinet: Make Your Live Easy"

"Overall it's a very good product having rich set of securities and easy to use and deploy... it can be easily integrated with other products in Fortinet Family.”

—  Assistant Manager in Energy and Utilities

★★★★★
"The Best Of Their Class. Strong And Powerful Security Solution For Any Organization Size."

“Price of the Devices: Great price for the power, throughput and performance. Easy to use: Really great UI and intuitive menu, options, etc. Performance: no performance issues even if all the UTM features are turned on.”

—  Practice Leader in IT Services

★★★★★
"Amazing Value For Money And Strong Performance."

"Fortigate provides robust and reliable performance. Their interface is intuitive and allows for centralized management wich really saves us time. Security features are the best among what we tested. Built-in VPN is the cherry on top."

—  Chief Network and Telecom Officer in the Real Estate industry

★★★★★
"Fortigate Provides Top Notch Security At A Fair Price!"

“The Fortigate firewalls offer great performance for their price point in comparison to other vendors. They have an amazing security research team to make sure you are at the leading edge of the threat landscape. The integration of their products so that they can work together through the security fabric is amazing.”

— IT System Administrator in the Retail Industry

★★★★★
"Fortigate NGFW - Comprehensive Perimeter Security"

"The product is truly exceptional, I have introduced the Fortinet NGFW in my organization for specific application requirement after preliminary assessment and Fortinet Product Advanced Features for DPI like Application Control & Industrial Signtaure, Intrusion Prevention system as well as Antivirus helped me to bring adequate security measures." Reliability: Fortinet's firewalls are designed to be reliable and to provide high uptime. The company's firewalls have a variety of features to help

— Head - SAS & Communications, OT Security in Energy and Utilities

★★★★★
"Best Firewall In The Market"

"The product is better than expected. The performance of the hardware is much better than the equivalent other vendors, its easy to manage and troubleshoot"

— Networks Supervisor in the Healthcare and Biotech Industry

★★★★★
"Fortinet, My Go To Provider For Edge Devices...Hands Down"

"I have utilized numerous vendors for endpoint security and edge devices including xx and others. Fortinet, by far is superior providing intuitive user interfaces and superlative customer and technical support."

— Sr. Technical Consultant in IT Services

★★★★★
"FortiGate Is A Complete All In One Package."

"We wanted to secure our networks, after a penetration testing from an outside company, we were told that our network is very secure thanks to FortiGate."

— Cybersecurity Analyst in the Healthcare and Biotech Industry

★★★★
"A VERY Effective And Affordable Solution"

"We deployed this NGFW at our main office 11 months ago and have enjoyed the simplicity and security it affords. IPsec tunnels to remote offices and cloud are consistent and VPN users are stable and visible through the dashboard."

— Server Admin in Energy and Utilities

★★★★
"Best Next Generation Firewall Solution For On Premises And Cloud."

"Simplicity in management and configuration. Same OS available on any model from the little one to big chassis: easy hw upgrade path without any need for reconfiguration."

— Founder & Managing Director in IT Services

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"Powerful NGFW Complemented With AI"

"In my organization is important to be protected in all ways, for this reason I like complement security with different types of tools and brands. I have worked with several NGFW brands, and although they all have pros and cons, FortiGate is one of my favorites, mainly because it is among one of the world leaders and because of the SD-WAN solution since it balances the load professionally. FortiGate is scalable and has allowed us to grow without any problem."

— Engineering Technician in IT Services

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"Fortinet The Protector"

"We have been using the Fortinet Fortigate solution for 4 years now, it's a stable, robust solution. It's deploy on all our sites, including one where we use the cluster in active / active mode and it works perfectly. The use of FortiEMS allows us to make our workstations compliant and protect. The whole system is easy to manage."

— Cloud & security in IT Services

★★★★★
"Durable And Long Lasting"

"Excellent quality product Easy to setup to use and set up & we are highly recommend this product"

— IT in the Finance Industry

★★★★
"A Fully Fledged Security Solution"

"The FortiGate firewall offers comprehensive threat protection for your business. FortiGate offers variety of features to protect your organization from cyberattacks. It delivers high performance and advanced security. " "Excellent price-performance ratio, The equipment has a high performance in terms of security, has a very friendly user interface, Fortinet remains at the highest levels in terms of innovation keeps"

— IT Associate in the Healthcare and Biotech Industry

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"Fortinet Performance"

"Excellent price-performance ratio, The equipment has a high performance in terms of security, has a very friendly user interface, Fortinet remains at the highest levels in terms of innovation keeps"

— Networking and Logical Security Administrator in the Telecommunication Industry

★★★★★
"Fortinet Firewall Provide Best In Bread Functionality"

"My overall experience working on Fortinet NGFW is simply Great. It provide great level of flexibility by easy admin portal."

— IT Associate in IT Services

★★★★★
"Reliable Service"

"Using more than 5 year fortigate devices. Hardware and cloud services. NGFW, APs and etc. I would like to express our sincere apprecation for your service to us as one of our most reliable company"

— Senior Network Admin in Energy and Utilities

★★★★★
"Use Fortigate Firewall And Forget The Network Risk"

"great product, very easy to use and very good support"

— Network Security Consultant in IT Services

★★★★★
"Single Pane Of Glass For All Functions In Your Network"

"Solid team in the Nordic region. Invests heavily in supporting the local market"

— Sales Specialist Security in IT Services

★★★★★
"With Fortinet We Improved Security, Costs And Data Network Performance"

"Fortinet is pioneer of secure networking, can scale to any location (ROBO, campus, and Datacenter)"

— System Manager in Energy and Utilities

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall, By Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, Charanpal Bhogal, Esraa ElTahawy, Feng Gao, Tiffany Taylor, 25 August 2025
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, Jonathan Forest, Karen Brown, Nauman Raja, 30 September 2024.

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