Fortinet has proudly announced that the company’s FortiGate platform has received Info-Tech Research Group’s “Champion” and “Best Overall Value” awards for Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). The awards, published in Info-Tech Research Group’s 2012 “Vendor Landscape: Next Generation Firewalls” report, are predicated on market share, mind share and platform coverage. Info-Tech Research Group evaluated ten competing platforms in the NGFW market including Cisco, Juniper and Check Point, and Fortinet was the only vendor to receive these two awards.
“Champions must receive high scores for most evaluation criteria and offer excellent value. They have strong market presence and are usually the trendsetters for the industry,” said Jessica Ireland, research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group.
Besides winning the “Champion” award, Fortinet scored a perfect 100 percent “Value Score.” The Value Score indexes each vendor’s product offering and business strength relative to their price point.
“On a relative basis, Fortinet maintained the highest Info-Tech Value Score of the vendor group,” Ireland continued. With the introduction of FortiOS 5, Fortinet has enhanced its NGFW functionality within the company’s entire unified threat management (UTM) product line with a focus on three specific capabilities including more control with network, user and device defined policy, more security with integrated, in-line and cloud-based threat detection via content and behavior inspection for improved advanced threat detection and enhanced performance for Every Customer Environment.
