Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced that its Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partner Program has surpassed 3,000 integrations with more than 400 technology partners. This milestone reinforces the openness and collaboration of Fortinet Security Fabric , enabling customers to seamlessly integrate security in complex, multi-vendor environments while addressing the challenges of digital transformation.

The rapid expansion of our Fabric-Ready Partner Program to over 3,000 integrations underscores Fortinet’s commitment to delivering interoperable, comprehensive security solutions that simplify our customers’ operations. By nurturing one of the largest ecosystems of cybersecurity vendors, we enable organizations to seamlessly secure their digital landscapes, regardless of their existing technology stacks. The depth of our integrations also helps organizations consolidate their security tools, driving efficiency and productivity.

– Jaime Romero, Vice President of Marketing at Fortinet

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Meeting the demands of modern IT environments

As it The digital attack surface continues To expand, modern enterprises now manage dozens of different security solutions. The majority (68 %) of organizations use between 10 and 49 security tools or platforms, creating challenges for visibility and centralized management. Fortinet’s open ecosystem addresses these complexities by delivering over 3,000 pre-validated integrations optimized for the Security Fabric. These integrations span cloud, virtualization, security operations, automation, IoT, OT, endpoint security, and networking, giving organizations broad visibility, improved security, and simplified operations.

“Fortinet’s open ecosystem is among the largest in the cybersecurity industry and do it enables customers to integrate the Fortinet Security Fabric with their existing and future technologies,” said Neil Prasad, vice president and head of global technology alliances at Fortinet. “With more than 3,000 integrations, we help organizations strengthen their overall security posture, improve the efficiency of their security operations, and accelerate their digital journey with confidence.”

Driving customer value through collaboration

Since its inception in 2015, the Fabric-Ready Partner Program has grown its membership 36-fold to more than 400 technology partners, reflecting Fortinet’s commitment to driving innovation and interoperability. The Fabric-Ready Program provides software infrastructure, resources and tools for alliance partners to integrate with the Security Fabric, develop joint solutions and become part of Fortinet’s open ecosystem. Recently added partners, such as Armis, CrowdStrike, Digital Realty, Equinix, Megaport, Qualcomm and ServiceNow, bring specialized expertise in endpoint security, OT, IT service management, cloud connectivity and wireless solutions, among others.

Key customer benefits of the program include:

• Wide visibility : Fortinet's open architecture and ecosystem integrations provide broad visibility of security risks in different environments.
• Simplified operation : Fortinet Fabric Connectors automate security policies and workflows, minimizing manual tasks and ensuring compliance.
• Improved incident response: Partner solutions share threat intelligence in real time with Security Fabric, enabling coordinated responses across the entire attack surface.
• Fast implementation : Pre-validated integrations reduce system integration costs and speed up time to value.

Partner perspective

“Armis and Fortinet provide a complete, best-in-class OT/IoT security solution that fully sees, protects and manages every critical OT asset in the environment. The partnership between Armis and Fortinet is strategic and complementary for both our companies and our mutual customers. Being a partner in Fortinet’s industry-leading Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Program enables Armis to deepen integrations between the Armis Centrix platform and the Fortinet Security Fabric, resulting in the broadest possible real-time insight into risks at the IT/OT intersection and maximizing policy-driven enforcement of zero-trust network access and segmentation. Together, we are driving innovation to address our customers’ most significant OT cyber risks and enable protection at scale.”
– Nadir Israel, Co-Founder and CTO, Armis

“CrowdStrike’s strategic partnership with Fortinet brings together best-in-class endpoint and network security. Our in-depth product integrations and joint solutions through Fortinet's Fabric-Ready Partner Program provides the flexibility, visibility and protection needed across networks, applications and endpoints to stop data breaches.”
– Michael Rogers, Vice President, Global Alliances, CrowdStrike

“Digital Realty brings together business and data by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. By leveraging PlatformDIGITAL, our global data center platform, customers can secure their hybrid IT workflows, improving networking and security across multiple and hybrid clouds for their mission-critical applications. Our Fortinet Fabric-Ready technology alliance with Fortinet enables customers to easily embrace cloud-based security through seamless access to a comprehensive, unified SASE solution.”
– Craig Waldrop, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Digital Realty

“The Equinix Network Edge Platform enables enterprises to rapidly deploy FortiGate NGFW and SD-WAN, simplifying network deployment and configuration while delivering comprehensive security services across hybrid multi-cloud environments. Our partnership with Fortinet enables customers to virtually modernize their networks, ensuring secure and seamless global connectivity. This collaboration reflects Equinix’s commitment to drive innovation and deliver value through transformative digital infrastructure solutions.”
– Maryam Zand, Vice President of Partnerships and ecosystem development, Equinix

“Our relationship with Fortinet spans nearly 18 years through our participation in Fortinet's open ecosystem. As two 100 % channel-managed companies, we are deeply intertwined at the field level across the globe. As organizations move from 'ground to cloud' within “Hybrid enterprises are increasing complexity and becoming unmanageable. The need for real-time security policy hygiene, management, visibility, and automation has never been more important. Our joint integrations provide an additional layer of deep, granular security policy management and visibility, strengthening Fortinet’s technology and helping customers solve their most pressing business and security challenges.”
– Nicole Stavroff, Vice President of Global Channels and alliances, FireMon

“As a Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner, Gigamon is proud to be part of a collaborative ecosystem that empowers customers to confidently secure and manage their hybrid cloud environments. By combining the strengths of the Fortinet Security Fabric with the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, we deliver the complete visibility organizations need to reduce risk, increase performance, and operate with greater agility in today’s AI-powered threat landscape. Together, our proven solution helps customers accelerate secure digital transformation without compromise.”
- Srinivas Chakravarty, Vice President, Cloud Ecosystem, Gigamon

“Fortinet drives innovation at the intersection of secure networks and performance, delivering integrated solutions that meet the ever-changing needs of today’s digital enterprises. Intel’s leadership in silicon and platform technologies, combined with its expansive ecosystem, enables groundbreaking solutions on a large scale“Together, Fortinet and Intel empower organizations to securely accelerate innovation – from the data center to the edge.”
– Dorin Vanderjack, vice president and head of U.S. OEM and Strategic Customer Sales, Intel

“The integration of Megaport Virtual Edge with FortiGate VM enables organizations to quickly and easily extend their Fortinet Security Fabric across our global software-defined network. As a Fortinet Fabric-Ready technology partner, we enable enterprises to streamline secure connectivity to major cloud providers and leverage our broader ecosystem, including AIx, FSx, and Voice & Video Exchange. This Partnership unlocks the full potential of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, FortiSASE and hosted Firewall-as-a-Service deployments, providing the flexibility and performance that today’s enterprises need to securely scale their digital operations.”
- Cameron Daniel, CTO, Megaport

“Organizations are under pressure to secure every connected assetOur partnership with Fortinet moves customers from visibility to enforcement, aligning ORDR’s AI-driven workflows and asset intelligence with Fortinet’s controls to reduce risk and complexity. That’s how we accelerated segmentation at Franciscan Health and how we scale that success across industries.”
– Steve Stark, Director of Channel Sales, ORDR

“Qualcomm Technologies is proud to be part of Fortinet’s Fabric-Ready Partner Program. This collaboration combines Qualcomm’s leadership in Wi-Fi 7 and advanced wireless networking technology with Fortinet’s deep expertise in network security to deliver high-performance connectivity. Together, we enable enterprises to accelerate their digital transformations through intelligent and secure network solutions.”
– Ganesh Swaminathan, vice president and general manager of wireless infrastructure and networking, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

“We are proud to collaborate with Fortinet as a Fabric-Ready technology provider in Fortinet’s open ecosystem. Our AI-powered student safety solution, combined with Fortinet’s next-generation network security, equips K-12 schools with advanced protection and best-in-class tools to promote digital citizenship, protect students, prevent harm, and support focused learning.”
– Greg Margossian, Founder and CEO, Saasyan

“In today’s rapidly changing threat landscape, automation is crucial to securing and scale digital transformation. Through our partnership with Fortinet and their Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Program, we are bringing together the power of the ServiceNow AI platform and the Fortinet Security Fabric to streamline security operations and accelerate response. Together, we enable customers to build more agile, resilient, and secure digital enterprises.”
– Elena Ropaeva, vice president for strategic business development, ServiceNow

“With the growing the complexity of today's corporate networks Interoperability and collaboration are more important than ever before. It can be a difficult task for a security team to manage their environments in a secure yet efficient manner. That is why initiatives such as Fortinet's Fabric-Ready Partner Program are so important to support. Tufin's visibility, control, automation expertise and integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric helps our joint customers effectively maintain their security posture while supporting business agility.”
– Brian Costello, Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances, Tufin

A differentiated ecosystem

Fortinet's open ecosystem is distinguished by its scale and depth, which is among the most comprehensive in cybersecurity. Fortinet-developed Fabric Connectors offer turnkey automation and synchronizes security policies across multiple vendor environments with single-click activation. From partner-developed APIs to community-driven DevOps scripts and threat sharing collaborations, the ecosystem addresses diverse customer needs, from IoT to cloud.

The inclusive philosophy behind the Fabric-Ready Partner Program continues to attract industry leaders and deliver well-designed solutions that simplify and secure customers' digital acceleration journeys.