CrowdStrike announced a strategic partnership with Fortinet to unify best-in-class endpoint and firewall protection. By integrating AI-native endpoint security from the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform and Fortinet’s FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFW), customers and partners gain the flexibility, visibility and security across networks, applications and endpoints to stop breaches.
Best-of-Breed Device and Network Security
The speed and sophistication of modern threats requires a multi-layer approach to security, integrating cutting-edge technologies to mitigate risk across an expanding attack surface. With traditional tooling, security teams often face challenges such as limited visibility and delayed detection and response. The CrowdStrike and Fortinet partnership provides rich telemetry across endpoint and network, enabling fast and accurate AI-powered threat protection and response, while streamlining security operations with a single, unified view.
- The Falcon platform revolutionized cybersecurity through an AI-native and adversary intelligence approach. Replacing antivirus and a host of other legacy point products has led to the market adopting the Falcon platform as the industry standard for endpoint security among other modules. Tested in multiple third-party assessments, the Falcon platform delivers industry-leading protection efficacy, enterprise scalability and deployment ease.
- Fortinet’s FortiGate NGFWs are available in multiple form factors, including hardware, software and as-a-Service. Fortinet’s hardware utilizes proprietary purpose-built ASICs, yielding on average 17x faster firewall performance and are up to 90 percent more power efficient than the competition. The addition of Fortinet’s FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services offers organizations the highest threat-protection performance on the market.
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The seamless, bidirectional integration of CrowdStrike and Fortinet optimizes network and endpoint security, streamlines operations and accelerates detection and response to elusive threats across the entire enterprise environment. Customers and partners gain context-rich insights into network traffic, user activity and device posture, further strengthening their ability to mitigate security risks with consistent, real-time protection and responses against the latest and most sophisticated threats.
CrowdStrike and Fortinet are jointly committed to supporting a broad, adaptable and open cybersecurity ecosystem, providing customers and partners with the flexibility to build a tailored best-of-breed security strategy.
Two of the Industry’s Most Validated Leaders Partner
“Two of cybersecurity’s leading companies partnering, each with a world-class channel ecosystem, creates a powerful combination that benefits everyone involved,” said Jay McBain, chief analyst at Canalys. “The CrowdStrike and Fortinet partnership is a win for customers, who gain access to a multi-layer network and endpoint security, and a win for partners, who now have even greater opportunities to deliver value and drive growth.”
Earlier this year, CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) for the fifth consecutive time. CrowdStrike was positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated for the second time in a row. The company was also recently recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms.
Fortinet is dedicated to delivering industry-leading firewall innovation and has been recognized 15 times in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls and has been named a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice vendor for Network Firewalls five times in a row. CrowdStrike and Fortinet believe this industry recognition demonstrates a shared commitment to delivering advanced device and network security innovation.
SOURCE: Businesswire