Fortinet Converges NGFW and SD-WAN to Protect Traffic Traversing the Entire Azure vWAN Environment

In 2022, Fortinet became the first vendor to converge next-generation firewall (NGFW) and secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) capabilities into a single offering-FortiGate virtual firewall (FortiGate-VM)-that could be deployed and run natively inside Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN).

Today, we're deepening cloud security for our joint Azure customers with a new FortiGate-VM solution that not only protects traffic to and from their vWAN but also within the service.

Customers can purchase this new solution through the Azure Marketplaceas well as through the channel.

Combining the Simplicity of Azure vWAN with Fortinet's Industry-Leading Security

Azure vWAN is a cloud service that brings together networking, security, and routing under a single operational interface, and customers typically use it to provide connectivity between their on-prem data centers, branch offices, and Azure vWANs.

Fortinet was the first to provide NGFW capabilitieswith FortiGate-VM as an Azure network virtual appliance (NVA) to securely on-ramp into the Azure vWAN as well as SD-WAN featuresto securely connect between virtual networks, branches, and the internet.

Recently, Microsoft released a new capability that allowed Fortinet to extend FortiGate-VM's SD-WAN capabilities to protect traffic inside the vWAN environment. With this added functionality, customers can use a single solution, the new FortiGate-VM for Azure vWAN offering, to secure traffic throughout an entire Azure vWAN environment.

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