"We're probably the largest company you may not have heard of," said Marc Asturias, vice-president of marketing and government vertical at Fortinet.
"We are the largest cybersecurity company in the world in terms of units sold, and we are number one in Latin America and the Caribbean."
This position gives Fortinet a sweeping perspective on the state of play of cybersecurity threats worldwide, as the company continuously monitors attacks across its secured networks and through sensors on the internet.
FortiGuard Labs is a group of global researchers within the company that's dedicated to studying the profile of cyberattacks.
These intrusion attempts are detected, processed and analysed at computer speed using artificial intelligence and machine learning so analysts can provide updated information to Fortinet's customers every five-ten minutes, and even sooner in critical situations.
That's important, because Asturias expects that cyberattack techniques in use in the Ukraine invasion to filter into the wild eventually and what he sees happening there is, he said, "is very scary."
The company processes as many as ten billion cybersecurity attacks and intrusions each day and is continuously reconfiguring its networks to repel them. Curious about what that looks like? Fortinet has a live threat map that you can view here: https://bit.ly/3IVMGqK.
"All that data is aggregated and analysed by these researchers so that we understand why it's happening, who are the threat actors and with what purpose. Then we aggregate that data to understand exactly what's happening in the wild."
Fortinet implements a cybersecurity mesh architecture for protection and is serious about making cybersecurity education accessible at all levels, from enterprise to individual home users.
The cybersecurity mesh is an evolution of traditional software tools that integrates them into a network that improves intrusion detection and speeds automated response.
According to a Gartner analysis, cybersecurity mesh designs will reduce data management by up to 70 per cent over the next two years, while reducing the financial impact of individual security incidents by an average of 90 per cent.
Gartner estimates that cloud-based mesh solutions will bring the core elasticity and scalability of cloud computing to the time-sensitive challenge of cybersecurity.
"By 2025," the report noted, "cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for more than 95 per cent of new digital initiatives – up from less than 40 per cent in 2021."
[caption id="attachment_943850" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Marc Asturias VP, marketing and government for Latin America and the Caribbean, Fortinet. -[/caption]
Fortinet's mesh product, noted Asturias, offers protection from the firewall to endpoints.
"All those devices are interconnected, and share information with each other to protect in an automated way. All our products integrate one with another, and for organisations that are wanting to make that modernisation, now is the time.
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