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Fortinet News, Friday, April 19th, 2024
Unraveling Cyber Threats: Insights From Code Analysis
Vigilance is paramount in cybersecurity, especially when it comes to understanding and dissecting potentially malicious code.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Fortinet Now Recognized In 8 Separate Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports
Like any organization continuously striving to deliver the most impactful solutions for customers, Fortinet is proud and grateful whenever we are recognized in important industry analyst reports. We see it as confirmation that we're a cybersecurity trailblazer moving in the right direction.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Fortinet Named A Challenger In The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant For Security Service Edge
Fortinet Recognized in Eight Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports, Based on the Fortinet Security Fabric Platform
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
Botnets Continue Exploiting CVE-2023-1389 for Wide-Scale Spread
Last year, a command injection vulnerability, CVE-2023-1389, was disclosed and a fix developed for the web management interface of the TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800).
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, April 11th, 2024
Unified Sase: The Third Era Of Network Security
It should come as no surprise that the three largest cybersecurity markets today are endpoint security, network security, and identity. Yes, there are other large cybersecurity markets, such as email security, web security, cloud security, SIEM, and SOC, but the three I singled out account for over 50% of the cybersecurity market and are a big part of any customer's budget.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, April 11th, 2024
Accelerate 2024: Collaboration, Innovation, And Embracing The Platform Era
This year's Accelerate was our largest event to date, with more than 4,600 registrants joining us in Las Vegas from all around the globe.
more → Fortinet News, Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Fortinet Releases Its 2023 Sustainability Report
Report provides a comprehensive overview of Fortinet's sustainability progress and initiatives from the past year
more → Fortinet News, Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Fortinet And IBM Cloud Collaborate To Help Clients Protect Their Workloads From Increased Cybersecurity Threats
Jay Jubran, Director, IBM Cloud Product Management and Infrastructure Services IBM and Vince Hwang, Senior Director, Cloud Security at Fortinet
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Fortinet Wins Two Google Cloud Technology Partner Of The Year Awards For Security
Fortinet announced it has received two 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Awards for Security in the Application and Infrastructure categories.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Unveiling New Unified SASE Innovations at Accelerate 2024
In cybersecurity, staying ahead of the curve isn't just an aspiration-it's a necessity. As technologies evolve and threats become more sophisticated, the need for innovative solutions has never been more critical.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Fortinet Expands Genai Offerings For Security And Networking Operations
Fortinet has just unveiled new and expanded GenAI assistant capabilities for FortiAI (formerly Fortinet Advisor) across our FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, and FortiSOAR solutions.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Byakugan - The Malware Behind A Phishing Attack
In January 2024, FortiGuard Labs collected a PDF file written in Portuguese that distributes a multi-functional malware known as Byakugan.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Step Into The Platform Era
It seems the platform conversation is a hot topic right now. But really, it's nothing new. There has always been a debate across all industries about best-of-breed products versus platforms.
more → Fortinet News, Friday, March 29th, 2024
Fortinet Instills Fundamental Cyber Skills With Its Security Awareness Curriculum
Cyber awareness is crucial for organizations, particularly because phishing and malware methods are increasingly being used by cybercriminals to obtain sensitive data and infiltrate networks.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Unifying Your Detection And Response Efforts
As attacks become more sophisticated, it takes security teams longer to investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Celebrating Women's History Month And International Women's Day At Fortinet
Fortinet has a longstanding commitment to bringing more individuals from different backgrounds into the field of cybersecurity.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Top 5 SASE Trends in 2024
With the first quarter of 2024 coming to an end, we can now predict with a fair amount of accuracy what the key secure access service edge (SASE) trends of the year will be.
more → Fortinet News, Monday, March 25th, 2024
The National Cybersecurity Strategy One Year Later
A little over a year ago, the Biden-Harris administration released the the National Cybersecurity Strategy as part of the United States federal government's continuing efforts to bolster and prioritize cybersecurity.
more → Fortinet News, Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Strengthening Cyber Resiliency Through Collaboration
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), cyber resilience is 'the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources.' Resilience focuses on reducing the consequences that could be caused by a cyber incident.
more → Fortinet News, Friday, March 22nd, 2024
For The Hybrid Workforce, Sase-Delivered Zero Trust Is A Must
In the early days of the pandemic, organizations relied on virtual private networks (VPNs) to link remote employees to their networks. However, legacy VPNs don't provide the most efficient way to connect to network assets. And now that we're in the age of the hybrid workforce, organizations are looking for a better and more comprehensive approach to securing their work-from-anywhere (WFA) employees.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Leveraging AI Within Cybersecurity With Fortinet
Artificial Intelligence, especially Generative AI, is causing a stir everywhere, and cybersecurity is no exception. In this midst of all the hype, however, it's important to remember that machine learning and AI have long played a role in protecting organizations.
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Fortinet News, Monday, March 18th, 2024
Fortinet Has Been Recognized For Fifth Straight Year As A Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice For Sd-Wan
Fortinet has once again been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for SD-WAN. This marks the fifth year in a row that Fortinet has received this distinction for our Secure SD-WAN solution based on user reviews.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, March 14th, 2024
We're A Leader: 2024 Magic Quadrant For Enterprise Wired And Wireless LAN Infrastructure By Gartner
Until recently, networking and security teams were seen as completely separate. They rarely worked together, and networking and security products coming together in a converged solution was unimaginable to most.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
VCURMS: A Simple and Functional Weapon
Recently, FortiGuard Labs uncovered a phishing campaign that entices users to download a malicious Java downloader with the intention of spreading new VCURMS and STRRAT remote access trojans (RAT).
more → Fortinet News, Monday, March 11th, 2024
Windstream Enterprise Debuts Secure Flex Premium With Fortinet For Maximum Enterprise Agility And Digital Acceleration
New offering integrates premium network technology and security within a high-touch managed service for enterprises that demand a future-ready digital IT infrastructure
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Why MSSPs Embrace Unified SASE Solutions
Managed security services providers (MSSPs) face challenges as they try to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving networking market while helping their customers defend against increasingly sophisticated threats.
more → Fortinet News, Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
Growth And Momentum: A Q&A With Fortinet's Executive Team
Fortinet recently announced earnings for Q4 and fiscal year 2023, with billings surpassing $6B and over 25,000 new customers last year.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Streamline Security Operations with New FortiGuard SOC-as-a-Service Integrations
Cybercriminals continually find new ways to infiltrate networks, forcing security professionals to evolve their operations to stay ahead of clever adversaries.
more → Fortinet News, Monday, March 4th, 2024
Fortinet Joins The European Commission's Cybersecurity Skills Academy Initiative
Building on the company's mission to close the cyber skills gap globally, Fortinet participates in European Union pledge to upskill and reskill individuals
more → Fortinet News, Friday, March 1st, 2024
Evolving Beyond Traditional Application Monitoring with FortiMonitor
If information is the lifeblood of a business, then applications are like a circulatory system that makes the data accessible and useful.
more → Fortinet News, Friday, March 1st, 2024
Women In Cybersecurity Q&A: Learning Opportunities And The Power Of Mentorship
The cybersecurity industry is pursuing numerous initiatives to increase diversity among professionals working in technology sectors, yet women still make up less than 25% of today's cybersecurity workforce.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, February 29th, 2024
How The Federal Government Can Help Schools And Libraries Prevent Cyberattacks
School districts and libraries nationwide have increasingly been victims of sophisticated cyberattacks by criminals who find the educational sector more vulnerable than commercial entities. Schools and libraries do not have large IT staff and only have modest budgets to protect their networks.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Fortiguard Labs Outbreak Alerts Annual Report 2023: A Glimpse Into The Evolving Threat Landscape
In today's dynamic threat environment, staying informed and proactive is crucial for any organization seeking to protect its networks.
more → Fortinet News, Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Navigating Cybersecurity Challenges With The Essential Eight
Cybercriminals continue to target critical infrastructure for substantial financial gain while also strategically attacking third-party vendors. And because, like any enterprise, they aim to maximize the returns on their investments in these attacks, their approach is both aggressive and persistent.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
Proactively Reduce Risk Across Your Attack Surface
The FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service can assess and improve security across IT, OT, and IoT assets
more → Fortinet News, Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
Fortinet Improves Resiliency and Operations to 1,000+ ATMs
We're so confident in the Data Manager Appliances' data reduction capabilities that we guarantee it.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
FortiFlex: More Solutions Now Available through Our Flexible Licensing Program
People, data, and devices are everywhere, requiring organizations to frequently evolve their business strategies to meet new demands.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Android/Spynote Moves To Crypto Currencies
Spynote is a Remote Access Trojan that initially surfaced in 2020.
more → Fortinet News, Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
TicTacToe Dropper
While analyzing malware samples collected from several victims, the FortiGuard team identified a grouping of malware droppers used to deliver various final-stage payloads throughout 2023. Malware droppers are malicious software designed to deliver and execute additional malware on a victim system and are employed to obfuscate final payloads during load and initial execution.
more → Fortinet News, Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
The Importance Of Patching: An Analysis Of The Exploitation Of N-Day Vulnerabilities
The following supplementary research provides an analysis of the exploitation of resolved N-Day Fortinet vulnerabilities. "N-Day vulnerabilities" refer to known vulnerabilities for which a patch or fix is available but for which organizations have not yet resolved via patching.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Fortinet Converges 5G Dual Modem, Ai-Powered Security, And Zero Trust To Securely Connect And Protect Operational Technology
FortiGate Rugged 70G with 5G Dual Modem delivers industry-leading secure networking features in a ruggedized, compact form factor ideal for industrial environments and remote ATMs
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Fortinet Reports Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2023 Financial Results
Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2023 and full year ended December 31, 2023.
more → Fortinet News, Monday, February 5th, 2024
Python Info-Stealer Distributed By Malicious Excel Document
In January 2024, FortiGuard Labs obtained an Excel document distributing an info-stealer. From the fingerprints in this attack, it is related to a Vietnamese-based group that was first reported on in August 2023 and again in September.
more → Fortinet News, Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Pioneering Data Center Security With Fortinet'S Broad Portfolio
Data centers are no longer the isolated and centralized information hubs of the organization. Today's data centers are often distributed and flexible, enabling applications, systems, and users to access critical information in real time to quickly respond to the demands of today's digital markets.
more → Fortinet News, Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Fortinet and WiCyS Work Together to Address the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
As cyber risks continue to rise, so does the demand for skilled security professionals. Threat actors are finding unique ways to advance their operations, turning to Cybercrime-as-a-Service, generative AI, and other tools to enhance the volume and complexity of attacks.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
Bot Or Not? Fortinet Enhances Application Security With Advanced Bot Protection Service
Fortinet has announced a new advanced bot protection service designed to detect and respond to malicious bots to address the growing challenges organizations face today from the growing volume of bot-generated traffic.
more → Fortinet News, Monday, January 29th, 2024
The New Cybercrime Atlas: A Collaborative Approach To Fighting Digital Crime
The global transition to the digital economy means that the operations of governments, critical infrastructures, businesses, and individuals are now a tightly integrated system of interconnected resources.
more → Fortinet News, Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Another Phobos Ransomware Variant Launches Attack - Faust
The Phobos ransomware family is a notorious group of malicious software designed to encrypt files on a victim's computer. It emerged in 2019 and has since been involved in numerous cyber attacks.
more → Fortinet News, Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
U.K. Equipment Rental Company Secures Network Access And Consolidates Its IT Infrastructure With Fortinet
As the digitalization of business unfolds, the cloud plays an increasingly key role in enterprise IT. As a result, organizations must implement innovative approaches to protect their businesses from cyberthreats.
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