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Fortinet Fortifies Secure SD-WAN With MEF 3.0 Certification

Fortinet’s FTNT Secure SD-WAN has been recently certified to support MEF 3.0 SD-WAN services. The certification will help provide enterprises with a benchmark to select an SD-WAN vendor.

With digital transformation taking place across all industries, more and more enterprises are moving their operations to the cloud. This, combined with the work-from-home wave, has exposed organizations to more frequent and advanced cyberattacks. The MEF certification will help fortify Fortinet’s SD-WAN solutions and make it more attractive to enterprises and service providers looking for secure and trusted solutions to meet their WAN transformation requirements.

Notably, Fortinet has actively been working with MEF to develop new SD-WAN security standards since 2017.

Fortinet, Inc. Price and Consensus

Fortinet, Inc. Price and Consensus
Fortinet, Inc. Price and Consensus

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Competitive Scenario

Fortinet’s SD-WAN peers, including Cisco CSCO, Citrix CTXS and VMware VMW-backed VeloCloud, aren’t far behind when it comes to doing their bit to strengthen their SD-WAN offerings with enhanced security and network protection capabilities.

Notably, Cisco has partnered with cybersecurity players like Netskope and Iboss Cybersecurity to integrate their offerings with its SD-WAN platform.

Recently, Citrix partnered with Check Point Software to deploy additional next-gen firewalls within Citrix SD-WAN.

Meanwhile, VeloCloud’s partnership with Menlo Security aims to enable enterprises to optimize local internet breakouts and provides global low-latency access to the internet and critical SaaS applications.

Nonetheless, the growing adoption of its SD-WAN solutions is proving to be a key growth driver, even in a year as challenging as 2020. Moreover, Gartner predicts that 50% of new firewall purchases in the distributed network will utilize SD-WAN features by 2024, up from 20% in 2019. Being the only vendor to offer both security and SD-WAN solutions, Fortinet is well positioned to capitalize on the increasing opportunities in the market.

In the first quarter of 2020, Fortinet’s Product revenues increased 18.2% year over year to $192.3 million. Notably, this growth was driven by the continued adoption of the FortiGate-based secure SD-WAN solution.

Fortinet currently carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.

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