32 Facts About Fortinet

Fortinet is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Fortinet develops and sells cybersecurity solutions, such as physical firewalls, antivirus software, intrusion prevention systems, and endpoint security components.

Fortinet later added wireless access points, sandbox, and messaging security.

Fortinet introduced its first product, FortiGate, in 2002, followed by anti-spam and anti-virus software.

Fortinet raised $13 million in private funding from 2000 to early 2003.

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Fortinet began distributing its products in Canada in December 2003 and in the UK in February 2004.

The dispute ended a month later after Fortinet agreed to make the source code available upon request.

Fortinet acquired app-hosting service XDN in December 2012, Coyote Point in 2013, and Wi-Fi hardware company Meru Networks in 2015.

In June 2016, Fortinet acquired IT security, monitoring and analytics software vendor, AccelOps.

In July 2014, Fortinet announced a technical certification program called the Network Security Expert program.

In March 2016, Fortinet launched a Network Security Academy to help fill open cyber security jobs in the US Fortinet donated equipment and provided information to universities to help train students for jobs in the field.

Also in 2016, Fortinet launched a program called FortiVet to recruit military veterans for cybersecurity jobs.

In June 2018, Fortinet acquired Bradford Networks, a maker of access control and IoT security solutions.

In September 2019, Fortinet settled a whistleblower lawsuit regarding what the company has described as an "isolated incident" of sales of intentionally mislabeled Chinese-made equipment to US government end users.

In September 2021, Fortinet pledged to train one million people in support of President Joe Biden's call to action to address the talent shortage in American cybersecurity.

Fortinet has stopped all sales, support, and professional services within Russia.

Fortinet released its first product, FortiGate, a firewall, in 2002, followed by anti-spam and anti-virus software.

Fortinet has used ASIC in several of its products, including to support its SD-WAN features.

Fortinet later merged its network security offerings, including firewalls, anti-spam and anti-virus software, into one product.

In 2017, Fortinet announced the addition of switches, access points, analyzers, sandboxes and cloud capabilities to the Security Fabric, in addition to endpoints and firewalls.

Later in 2017, Fortinet created a standalone subsidiary, Fortinet Federal, to develop cybersecurity products for government agencies.

Later in 2018, Fortinet released FortiGuard to better detect new and unknown threats, and announced the 6.

Fortinet stated that their products are sold by third party resellers, and that they acknowledged US embargoes.

In 2019, Fortinet grew to 21,000 WAN edge customers, according to a Gartner report.

In February 2020, Fortinet released FortiAI, a threat-detection program that uses artificial intelligence.

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In 2005, Fortinet created the FortiGuard Labs internal security research team.

In 2008, Fortinet researchers sent a report to Facebook highlighting a widget from Zango that appeared to be tricking users into downloading spyware.

In March 2014, Fortinet founded the Cyber Threat Alliance with Palo Alto Networks in order to share security threat data across vendors.

In January 2017, Fortinet worked with Interpol to conduct an investigation into web security in several southeast Asian countries.

Later that month, Fortinet researchers discovered a spyware that scammed victims by impersonating the IRS.

In 2018, Fortinet entered into an information-sharing agreement with Interpol.

In March 2022, Fortinet participated in the Mitre Corporation's Attack Flow project which created "a data format describing adversary behavior sequences to help identify cyberthreat choke points".