Ensuring Strong Cyber Hygiene on World Password Day
World Password Day has historically served as a reminder for users to update weak or old passwords to ensure the security of personal and corporate information. But as cyber threats continue to evolve and bad actors develop new attack techniques, a good cybersecurity posture requires more than just a strong password to avoid compromise. This […]
Fortinet Enables Leading Precision Machining Company to Quickly Adapt to COVID-19
For many companies, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated serious shortcomings in their business continuity plans and challenged their ability to maintain operations during a crisis. This was not the case for Master Automatic, a leader in the precision machining industry with over 75 years of experience. Over the last twelve years, the company has experienced […]
SD-WAN for Teleworkers: Scalability and Application Performance
As organizations implement remote work at scale, a lot of organizations that sized their firewall based on how many branches they have, and not on how many users might need to log in remotely, are facing severe issues related to scalability. Fortunately, FortiGate customers have been able to leverage its inherent scalability due to its use of […]
How Partners Can Leverage Access Controls to Secure Customers’ Changing Workforces
Digital transformation is changing the way your customers’ organizations function. With more digital natives entering the workforce each year, competition for the best and brightest among them has intensified. For this reason, companies are implementing technology in the workplace to both enhance productivity and improve job satisfaction. A prime example of this is businesses encouraging remote work. […]
Service Provider Transitions All 2,000+ Employees to Remote Work with Existing Fortinet Gear
The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted “business as usual” for organizations across the world. For communications service providers, and other organizations designated as essential, the requirement to remain open and to continue offering essential services may conflict with the desire to be a good citizen and help to slow the spread of the outbreak. One broadband […]
Understanding How SMBs Rely On MSSPs For Success
Written By: Jon Brove, Fortinet, Inc. As the world goes digital, your customers are working toward increased agility and speed by switching to the cloud. Large enterprises are building and managing private cloud resources internally as well as developing complex multi-cloud environments. Small and midsize businesses (SMBs), on the other hand, are busy forming critical […]
Cloud Security for Rapidly Increasing Remote Work
Written by: Lior Cohen In my previous blog, I highlighted security considerations for supporting the rapid rollout of large scale, high-speed VPN connectivity to increase secure remote worker capacity. Once this occurs, most organizations are looking to maintain business continuity through a remote worker strategy. Their employees are logging into the corporate network from their home […]
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Delivers Optimal User Experience for Remote Workers
One of the most critical strategies for businesses undergoing digital transformation is to ensure that growth and expansion is built on a distributed infrastructure. This not only enables them to quickly adapt to today’s dynamic business environments. It also more effectively supports their BCDR (business continuity and disaster recovery) strategy so they can stay open […]
Six Cybersecurity Considerations for 2020
KPMG has recently released its annual “cyber considerations” report for 2020, titled “All Hands on Deck.” The report highlights six major cybersecurity trends and requirements that should be top of mind this year. They are: Automating essential tasks Improving the consumer authentication experience Preparing for new cloud threats Improving the business acumen of the security […]
Considerations for Addressing Additional Security Needs for Remote Workers
By now, most organizations responding to the current global pandemic have already moved their workforce to their homes using a secure remote worker system that includes an endpoint VPN client, online teleconferencing systems, and a headend VPN concentrator. But getting workers up and running is not the same thing as making sure that they, and […]
