Fortinet, founded in 2000 by brothers Ken and Michael Xie, has grown from a single-product company into a global cybersecurity enterprise serving over 660,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company employs more than 10,000 people and provides firewalls and security platforms designed to protect devices, data, applications and data centers across organisations of all sizes.
The company's product portfolio is anchored by FortiGate, its foundational physical firewall, and the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, which integrates security across an organisation's entire digital attack surface. This platform-based approach reflects Fortinet's focus on delivering comprehensive protection without forcing trade-offs between security effectiveness and network performance.
Fortinet's technical capabilities span network security, cloud security, secure access service edge (SASE) and AI-powered threat detection. The company continues to develop innovations in these areas whilst maintaining a presence across enterprise IT, data centres and secure networking environments. With a stated mission to protect people, devices and data everywhere, Fortinet positions itself as a provider of integrated security infrastructure for organisations navigating complex, distributed IT landscapes.
