Empowering the Distributed Workforce with Fortinet SD-WAN

Enhancing Security and Performance For Remote Work

The future of work is digital, and it is critical as ever to protect the future. Remote is rapidly becoming the new working norm, yet, a plethora of businesses leveraging the cloud-based applications, organizations are finding it more challenging than ever to maintain the level of secure and high-performance connectivity to their distributed workforce. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is a comprehensive and integrated solution designed to solve these distributed enterprise challenges by offering secure WAN and an acceleration compute infrastructure.

The Need for Secure SD-WAN

As the number of remote workers grows, the traditional wide-area network cannot support the complex requirements of the current modern business. SD-WAN is the prepared solution to the problem of complexity, upping the flexibility with simplified design at a reduced cost. SD-WANs require appropriate security defenses once it’s widely deployed, given the high likelihood of attacks targeting remote business continuity solutions. The current lineup of security solutions designed to accompany the early SD-WAN solutions are known as Secure-SD-WAN.

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Solution

Fortinet’s solution with secure WAN, SD-WAN, and acceleration computing, meeting the distributed enterprise, has clear SD-WAN usage with cyber security at an all-time high. Integrates advance security into base offering, optimizing security as part of a UC processing, upping unified communications operator platform, while reducing complexity and architecture deeply.

Key Features of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

• Security Features
• Next-Generation Firewall: Intrusion prevention, antivirus, anti-malware
• Encryption and Decryption
• Application Control: Advanced administration control priority based with Full business policy

Performance Features. Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN includes additional performance features such as:

• Application steering. Fortinet’s proprietary traffic steering mechanism ensures that critical applications receive the necessary priority and performance.
• Load balancing. The feature allows distributing network traffic between multiple links to avoid congestion.
• Connection failover. Even if one of the links fails, the other connection will remain in function. In addition to firewall protection, Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN offers enhanced security, reducing the attack surface.
• Integrated security protection enabled, the appliance features:
  • A reduced attack surface. Without additional costly security appliances, all security features are integrated into the SD-WAN platform.
  • Enhanced visibility. Real-time data exchange means that the user can see all issues that arise.
  • Improved performance of Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN features.
  • Optimized application performance. An appliance prioritizes critical applications and balances network flow between links.
  • Reduced latency. Sophisticated components of Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN designs eliminate human response time lags.
• Simplified management: the customer base notes that Fortinet’s customers have a hard time choosing competing products, as the company offers a centralized management option that simplifies network and security policy management. Simplified management means that security and networking IT departments can now be interchangeable.
• Customer success stories: with over 1500 branches worldwide, a multinational energy company using Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN finally consolidated its disconnected and disintegrated networking and security point products under one corporate umbrella.

Conclusion

Secure SD-WAN from Fortinet aims to eliminate the challenges of remote work which means your users have secure, high-performance WAN access. Fortinet provides an advanced level of security capabilities in its secure SD-WAN platform that shows decreased complexity, increased visibility and improved performance. Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution is designed for businesses of all sizes, and can provide the security services needed to protect remote workers while scaling performance.

Call to Action

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