Recently, Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global network security leader focusing on the integration of network and security, and Forrester, a world-renowned analysis organization, released an independent analysis report on the overall economic impact, which elaborated on the deployment of FortiGate next-generation firewall (NGFW) in enterprise data centers and FortiGuard AI-driven security services help enterprises achieve a return on investment (ROI) of more than 300% within three years, recover all investment within six months, and quickly realize cost savings and business efficiency improvements.
Forrester TEI research report released
Quantify ROI to help you choose
As enterprises accelerate the deployment of hybrid infrastructure, how to ensure a consistent security posture in the data center to efficiently block more complex attacks and seamlessly integrate with increasingly complex network architectures and components has become one of the biggest security challenges facing modern enterprises. In this context, data center firewall selection also needs to consider more and more reference factors such as advanced functions, applicability to key use cases, security effectiveness and total cost of ownership.
Research customer situation
To quantify the return on investment of FortiGate NGFW and security services in enterprise data centers, Fortinet commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a "Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) Study", based on a set of mature research methods developed by Forrester, combined with the The actual cost, benefit and risk data of visitors can be quantified to reflect the investment value of users in the Fortinet data center firewall. The study found that FortiGate NGFW can improve performance and productivity for enterprises, and save costs significantly, enabling them to achieve a return on investment of up to 318% and a return on investment period of only six months, a sharp reduction of 90% in manual update time, and traditional Compared with NGFW solution, it can save up to 40% of cost and other advantages.
significant cost savings
Improve security and network performance
TEI research found that, by examining three years of data, Fortinet data center firewall and security services can significantly improve organizational network performance and security effectiveness, improve network and security team productivity and end-user productivity compared to traditional NGFW firewall deployments , and Further save solution deployment costs.
Research results display
Respondents all said that managing a large number of point firewall solutions from different vendors made it extremely difficult before adopting Fortinet solutions to protect the data center. The superimposed deployment of point products will inevitably expand the organization's attack surface and make management more inefficient. It is difficult to maintain and upgrade firewalls, and it often disrupts daily business operations. Fortinet NGFW, which is suitable for data center deployment, implements Fortinet's leading network security integration concept, supports interviewed organizations to seamlessly integrate various single-point firewalls into a comprehensive and unified security platform, effectively alleviates the shortage of talents, and obtains a broader and clearer Network infrastructure visibility.
ROI up to 318%
Payback period of less than six months
After deploying Fortinet NGFW and security services in the data center, enterprises can achieve up to 318% return on investment within three years, and quickly pay back the full investment cost in less than six months. These advantages are driven by a 90% reduction in full-time employee (FTE) time spent on manual updates and fixes, resulting in cost savings of more than $1.2 million over three years. In addition, for the IT team deploying FortiGate firewalls in the data center, the task of reinstalling the system image of the device and the connection of auxiliary devices have been reduced by up to 50% and 95%, respectively, allowing the IT team to focus more time and energy on other tasks. More valuable mission-critical.
$5.4 million in network and security optimization gains
Save costs up to 40%
FortiGate NGFW dramatically improves network performance and security effectiveness with FortiGuard AI-driven security services, enabling organizations to quickly detect threats and respond in real time across their entire attack surface. Enterprises can benefit as much as $5.4 million in network processing performance and security effectiveness optimization over a three-year period. At the same time, compared with traditional equipment and service solutions, FortiGate NGFW dedicated to the data center saves up to 40% in cost. In three years, it can save the enterprise more than 2.6 million US dollars.
Optimize overall security posture and improve sustainability
FortiGuard AI-driven security services provide enterprises with real-time protection against known and unknown threats, greatly improving the overall security posture of enterprises. Fortinet data center firewalls enable broader visibility into the overall threat landscape, helping organizations effectively prevent and mitigate potential attacks that could cause serious financial and reputational damage. At the same time, Fortinet firewalls are powered by dedicated security processing units (SPUs) designed to provide superior network performance to help organizations achieve and optimize sustainable operations while reducing overall data center power consumption.
Improve visibility and network reliability
Responsive user support service
Fortinet solutions help enterprises streamline their networking and realize centralized management of network infrastructure, providing IT teams with deeper and comprehensive network visibility, and greatly reducing network management, operation and maintenance and monitoring costs. Firmware updates are less time-consuming, more reliable, and less resource-intensive to configure, test, and train, making them less of a challenge. In addition, the Fortinet support team responds quickly, providing users with 24x7 technical support services, as well as consultative support and thoughtful professional services. Fortinet Rapid Response and Deployment Services help organizations easily consolidate and standardize solutions across multiple data centers following M&A activity.
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FortiGate NGFW's award-winning advantages
To date, Fortinet and FortiGate NGFW have been recognized by many third-party organizations and authoritative analysts, including being recognized as a leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Firewall™, and in the Forrester Wave: 2022 Enterprise-Class Firewall Report was placed in the Leaders Quadrant in 2019 and received a "Recommended" rating in the CyberRatings.org Independent Firewall Test. The wide recognition of third-party professional authoritative organizations fully confirms the extraordinary advantages of Fortinet's unique network and security integration solutions.
FortiGate NGFWs feature a unified operating system, FortiOS, and a unified management console, FortiManager, to extend AI-driven security to all NGFWs deployed on-premises, in the cloud, and in virtual machines in hybrid environments. This advantage makes FortiGate NGFW ideal for hybrid mesh firewall (Hybrid Mesh Firewall) architectures, which coordinate security policies across firewalls to create a comprehensive security posture. As a supporting component of Fortinet's on-demand licensing program, FortiFlex, the FortiGate NGFW procurement process is flexible and quick to deploy.
John Maddison, executive vice president of products and chief marketing officer of Fortinet, said, "As a market-proven and user-proven security vendor in the field of data center solutions, Fortinet is committed to providing today's large enterprise organizations with cutting-edge security with superior security and high performance and low power consumption. Solution. We believe that the newly released Forrester Total Economic Impact™ research report strongly confirms the real feedback of Fortinet users over the years: The powerful combination of FortiGate NGFW and FortiGuard AI-driven security services not only significantly enhances The overall security of the organization has also enabled it to achieve an exceptional ROI. ”