Fortinet Named a Strong Performer in the 2021 Forrester Wave™ for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security

Forrester recently published the Forrester Wave™: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Solutions, Q4, 2021 report, and we are pleased to announce that Fortinet has been positioned as a Strong Performer. We believe our position in third-party reports such as the Forrester Wave highlights our scale, large customer base, and proven traction in the market to help organizations feel confident in their decision to work with Fortinet. We are also proud to be selected as one of only 12 vendors.

Besides receiving the highest score possible in the "number of customers" criterion, Fortinet received the highest score possible in six other criteria, including policy and rule management, microsegmentation, APIs and integrations, product security, partner ecosystem, and product revenue. We believe our 5/5 scores in the "Partner Ecosystem" and "APIs and Integrations" critieria are highly relevant considering, in our opinion, the placement of several Fortinet Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance partners in the Wave report. According to the Forrester report, "Fortinet's strength in ICS security stems from its market-leading integration breadth with IT and OT technology vendors. This includes integrations with ICS security vendors and control system vendors."

Fortinet's technology integrations with top visibility and automation and control vendors, made possible through our open API's via the Fabric-Ready Partner program, includes such leaders as Claroty, Dragos, Microsoft, Nozomi, and Tenable. These close collaborations further emphasize the value Fortinet brings to securing OT environments. For example, our leading policy and microsegmentation capabilities are informed through these strategic partnerships, enabling our solutions to execute granular response and control of protocols and policies uniquely suited to each OT environment. The symbiotic relationship with our ecosystem partners' technology, provides customers with highly advanced cyber protection. We're also proud that the majority of our OT ecosystem partners appreciate the breadth of Fortinet's Security Fabric and integrate with multiple product families within the expansive Fortinet portfolio. This signals their commitment to Fortinet's unique Security Fabric strategy of providing comprehensive defense-in-depth solutions that can span the most distributed OT environments.