Fortinet wins Network Security Vendor of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan

Fortinet was named ‘Network Security Vendor of the Year’ at the 2015 Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards. Fortinet offers broad, integrated protection in a security platform that scales from the endpoint to the cloud, from megabit to terabit, and can be deployed across an organization, from the smallest office to the largest datacenter. Fortinet’s global organization is capable of delivering product, people, and services wherever they are required. Fortinet’s technical organization ensures customers’ requirements are met throughout the pre and post sales lifecycles, maximizing network availability and reliability. The broad product line of complementary solutions goes beyond traditional Network Security to address all security needs of the extended enterprise providing visibility throughout the entire enterprise network, including the core, datacenter and cloud, WAN, LAN, and WLAN. Led by the industry’s fastest firewall (FortiGate), Fortinet places the right technology at the right place in the network for a comprehensive security solution.

“We are honored to be recognized as the Network Security Vendor in India for 2015,” said Rajesh Maurya, country manager, India and SAARC, Fortinet, on receiving the award. “This further validates our commitment to innovate and provide solutions that exceed the highest standards of security and performance while providing the best value for investments made in our technology. Our high-performance solutions are complemented with extensive threat research, knowledge based training programs, professional services, and premium RMA services to ensure our customers are protected 24/7 even when threats keep growing by the day.”

Congratulating Fortinet on the award, Benoy CS, director, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan said, “Fortinet has had a very successful year 2014, where it experienced immense revenue growth of 51.9 percent in the Network Security Market in India. In India, the vendor has created an ecosystem with large service providers to give customers a broad choice of solutions for protecting their infrastructures. Owing to its high-end appliances and hardware engineering capability, the organization has been creative in offering an exceptional level of performance, deployment flexibility, and security for large as well as mid-sized networks. The underlying philosophy behind the company’s growth is attributed to its continuous pace of innovation, delivery of new features and products, and ease of deployment and management of its appliances onsite.”

The 2015 Frost & Sullivan award recipients were judged on various parameters including revenue growth, market share growth, product portfolio diversity, key achievements, and go-to-market strategy, vertical and horizontal diversity, major customer acquisitions, efficacy of innovation process, product service, and positioning, among others. The process involved in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. An elite jury panel comprising prominent CIOs / CTOs from the industry evaluated the compiled data and incorporated the end-user perspective. Frost & Sullivan then presented the awards to companies that received the highest industry rank in each category.