Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced cloud-delivered enhancements to FortiSASE that integrate cloud-delivered software-defined wide-area network connectivity with cloud-delivered security to enable flexible secure private access.

FortiSASE consolidates point products by seamlessly converging SD-WAN and security service edge, including a secure web gateway, universal zero-trust network access, cloud access security broker and firewall-as-a-service. It does so via a single operating system, FortiOS, and a single agent, FortiClient, with artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive additional operational efficiency.

In addition to enabling secure internet access that is fast and ensures consistent security for all user traffic to and from the internet, the latest enhances to FortiSASE add further support for secure private access and software-as-a-service access use cases.

Leveraging Fortinet’s existing networking and security convergence at the edge to more than 20,000 customers via Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, the company is now extending this convergence to remote users via cloud-delivered SD-WAN connectivity in FortiSASE. The extension combines Fortinet’s granular application access with Fortinet Universal ZTNA by adding broader application access with SD-WAN to support private applications running at a data center or on a public cloud while ensuring a superior user experience.

The enhancements are claimed to make FortiSASE the industry’s most flexible architecture for secure and reliable access to privately hosted applications by leveraging both ZTNA and SD-WAN. Organizations that have already deployed Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and/or FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls can connect their remote users to FortiSASE for private access without needing an additional license.

For Secure SaaS Access, FortiSASE delivers comprehensive visibility and control for SaaS applications, further enhanced with next-generation dual-mode CASB. By leveraging inline and application programming interface-based support, FortiSASE provides full visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned applications to address shadow information technology and data exfiltration challenges.

“Fortinet delivers the most integrated single-vendor SASE solution available, uniquely converging best-of-breed networking and best-of-breed security that are unified by a single operating system,” John Maddison, executive vice president of products and chief marketing officer of Fortinet, said in a statement. “The latest cloud-delivered enhancements to FortiSASE further strengthen our ability to enable consistent security and user experience no matter where users and applications are distributed.”

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