Fortinet blocked three trillion and six trillion hits, respectively, from vulnerabilities, malware, and zero-day attacks, according to the company’s annual Outbreak Alert Report in 2022. Blocked using FortiGuard IPS and FortiGuard AV/Sandbox, the hits encompassed several thousand varieties of remote code lifecycle components, including attack execution, cross-site scripting (XSS), the elevation of privilege, denial of service (DoS and DDoS), Trojans, and other exploits.

The Philippines is not exempted from these attacks. Last year, Fortinet observed increased sophistication and frequency of cyber attacks and data breaches in the country. In Q4 2022, 93 million exploits, viruses, and botnets were reported each day, much higher than 73 million per day in Q3 2022. Cybersecurity breaches in Asia has worsened due to the shortage of cybersecurity skills in the region, despite the increasing awareness among organizations.

Besides cyber attacks and data breaches, cybersecurity environments in organizations have become more complex because of the presence of multiple products and vendors, network segmentation, operational technology (OT) security concerns, limited visibility, and compliance issues amid increasing IT expenditures. This complexity goes beyond the offices of organizations because employees with multiple devices and applications can work from anywhere as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Simplifying cybersecurity complexities, organizations need a better approach by consolidating solutions and strategies. Organizations can do this by deploying secure access service edge (SASE) from one source or single-vendor SASE. The delivery of networking and security capabilities from one vendor in a unified solution can help organizations drive operational efficiency and cost reduction by reducing vendors and point products. Gartner predicts that by 2025, one-third of new SASE deployments will be based on a single-vendor SASE offering, up from 10% in 2022.

Fortinet FortiSASE

Helping organizations simplify the complexity, Fortinet has introduced FortiSASE, driven by Fortinet’s single-vendor SASE approach, delivers a comprehensive SASE solution that extends the convergence of networking and security from the edge to remote users. FortiSASE seamlessly converges cloud-delivered networking (SD-WAN) and cloud-delivered security (SSE comprised of secure web gateway, universal zero trust network access, cloud access security broker, and Firewall-as-a-Service). A single operating system (FortiOS) and single agent (FortiClient), with AI and ML layered across, drive operational efficiency.

FortiSASE’s cloud-delivered security and networking capabilities deliver enterprise-grade security and superior user experience to remote workers in a single, integrated solution to support organizations by enabling three use cases: secure internet access, secure private access, and secure SaaS access.

Secure Internet Access

Organizations of all sizes across all industries—from aluminum manufacturers to fast food chains—rely on FortiSASE to enable fast and secure internet access that ensures consistent security for all user traffic to and from the internet. Secure internet access is a critically important advantage as more users join a remote workforce, SaaS applications see rapid adoption, and data rapidly moves among data centers, branch offices, and hybrid- and multi-cloud environments.

Secure Private Access

Organizations currently leveraging Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and/or FortiGate Next-generation Firewalls now have instant access to cloud-delivered SD-WAN connectivity for their remote users. It means they can take advantage of our existing capabilities of granular application access with Fortinet Universal ZTNA and now deliver broader application access with cloud-delivered SD-WAN. This makes FortiSASE the most flexible secure private access solution, supporting the most comprehensive set of private applications running in the data center or public cloud.

Secure SaaS Access 

FortiSASE delivers comprehensive visibility and control for all SaaS applications running in an environment, now enhanced with next-generation dual-mode Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities. Using both inline and API-based CASB support, FortiSASE enables full visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned applications. This enhancement will help security teams address shadow IT and data exfiltration challenges.

Learn more about FortiSASE and Fortinet’s ability to deliver single-vendor SASE that enables consistent security and user experience no matter where users and applications are distributed by visiting Fortinet.com.