2019 India ICT Awards held in New Delhi
Fortinet was named ‘Network Security Vendor of the Year’ at Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 India ICT Awards, held in New Delhi.
Currently, in its 17th year, the awards banquet witnessed the participation of leading personalities and companies from the ICT sector and honored companies that demonstrated breakthrough best practices and set global benchmarks for technologies expected to catalyze and transform industries in the future.
This year, 41 awards were presented across three categories: Enterprise Infrastructure, Emerging Services, and Enterprise Telecom Services.
“We are delighted to be recognized as a leading cyber security vendor in the Indian market for the fourth time in the last five years. Fortinet has a strong business presence with a well-established ecosystem of partners and service providers supporting customers to get ahead of threats as edge-based networking is replacing the traditional perimeter,” said Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC, Fortinet.
“ This recognition further endorses our investments in cyber security skill training, R&D with more than 100 patents registered from India, professional services, customer support and security solutions that support open standards. We will continue our mission to provide high-performance, integrated security solutions for Indian organizations and providers of all sizes,”
Congratulating Fortinet on the award, Benoy CS, Vice President, Digital Transformation Practice, Frost & Sullivan said, “Fortinet has been one of the most dependable security vendors in the network security segment, which has products for Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and UTM, and deserved the award.”
Fortinet has been a prominent security vendor in network security space for several years. Fortinet’s next-generation firewalls leverage the benefit of the Fortinet Security Fabric that enables tightly integrated advanced threat protection capabilities like cloud sandboxing, endpoint protection and threat intelligence. It has capabilities like high SSL inspection performance, protection against evasive threats, excellent TCO and broad coverage of enterprise deployments. The Fortinet Security Fabric remains a key differentiator for the company that empowers firewalls, cloud, applications, threat protection, security operations and secured access within the enterprise. With innovation centers located in India focusing on developing products that help enterprises in modern IT setup to combat cyber threats, the company has helped enterprises in their digital transformation journey.