Fortinet SD-WAN: Security-Driven Networking in Practice
Fortinet SD-WAN: Security-Driven Networking in Practice Fortinet occupies an unusual position in the SD-WAN market. It did not build a standalone SD-WAN product and later add security to it — nor did it acquire a WAN optimization vendor and rebrand the technology. Instead, Fortinet embedded SD-WAN capabilities directly into FortiOS, the same operating system that runs its NGFW, IPS, SSL inspection, and application control functions. The result is an architecture the company calls security-driven networking, and it has made Fortinet one of the leading positions in Gartner’s SD-WAN Magic Quadrant for multiple consecutive years. ...

