Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in cybersecurity driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced that its Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partner Program has surpassed 3,000 integrations with more than 400 technology partners. This milestone underscores the openness and collaborative strength of the Fortinet Security Fabric, enabling customers to integrate security seamlessly across complex, multi-vendor environments while addressing the challenges of digital transformation.
The rapid growth of the Fabric-Ready Partner Program to over 3,000 integrations highlights Fortinet’s commitment to delivering interoperable, comprehensive security solutions that simplify operations for customers. By nurturing one of the largest ecosystems among cybersecurity vendors, Fortinet enables organizations to secure their digital landscapes regardless of existing technology stacks. The depth of these integrations also helps organizations consolidate security tools, improving efficiency and productivity.
– Jaime Romero, Vice President of Marketing, Fortinet
Meeting the needs of modern IT environments
As the digital attack surface continues to expand, modern enterprises now manage dozens of different security solutions. The majority (68%) of organizations use between 10 and 49 security tools or platforms, creating challenges for visibility and centralized management. Fortinet’s open ecosystem addresses these complexities by delivering more than 3,000 pre-validated integrations optimized for the Security Fabric. These integrations span cloud, virtualization, security operations, automation, IoT, OT, endpoint security and networking, giving organizations broad visibility, improved security and simplified operations.
“Fortinet’s open ecosystem is one of the largest in the cybersecurity industry and enables customers to integrate Fortinet Security Fabric with their current and future technologies,” said Neil Prasad, Vice President and Head of Global Technology Alliances at Fortinet. “With more than 3,000 integrations, we help organizations strengthen their overall security posture, streamline security operations and accelerate their digital journey with confidence.”
Driving customer value through collaboration
Since its launch in 2015, the Fabric-Ready Partner Program has grown 36-fold and now includes more than 400 technology partners, reflecting Fortinet’s focus on fostering innovation and interoperability. The program provides infrastructure, resources and tools for alliance partners to integrate with Security Fabric, build joint solutions and participate in Fortinet’s open ecosystem. Newly added partners such as Armis, CrowdStrike, Digital Realty, Equinix, Megaport, Qualcomm and ServiceNow bring specialized expertise across endpoint security, OT, IT service management, cloud connectivity and wireless solutions.
Key customer benefits of the program include:
- Broad visibility: Fortinet’s open architecture and ecosystem integrations provide broad visibility into security risks across diverse environments.
- Simplified operations: Fortinet Fabric Connectors automate security policies and workflows, reducing manual tasks and helping ensure compliance.
- Improved incident response: Partner solutions share threat intelligence in real time with Security Fabric, enabling coordinated responses across the attack surface.
- Faster time-to-value: Pre-validated integrations reduce system integration costs and accelerate value realization.
Partner perspectives
“Armis and Fortinet deliver a complete, best-in-class OT/IoT security solution that fully detects, protects and manages every critical OT asset in the environment. Our partnership is strategic and complementary for both companies and our shared customers. Being part of Fortinet’s industry-leading Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Program allows Armis to deepen integrations between the Armis Centrix platform and Fortinet Security Fabric, providing the broadest possible real-time risk insight across IT/OT boundaries and maximizing policy-driven zero-trust network access and segmentation. Together we innovate to address customers’ most significant OT cyber risks and enable protection at scale.”
– Nadir Israel, Co-founder and CTO, Armis
“CrowdStrike’s strategic partnership with Fortinet brings together leading endpoint and network security. Our deep product integrations and joint solutions through Fortinet’s Fabric-Ready Partner Program deliver the visibility, flexibility and protection needed across networks, applications and endpoints to stop data breaches.”
– Michael Rogers, Vice President, Global Alliances, CrowdStrike
“Digital Realty connects businesses and data by delivering a full range of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. Leveraging PlatformDIGITAL, our global data center platform, customers can secure hybrid IT workflows, improving networking and security across multi- and hybrid-cloud environments for mission-critical applications. Our Fabric-Ready technology alliance with Fortinet enables customers to adopt cloud-based security easily through seamless access to a comprehensive unified SASE solution.”
– Craig Waldrop, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Digital Realty
“Equinix Network Edge enables businesses to rapidly deploy FortiGate NGFW and SD-WAN, streamlining network provisioning while delivering comprehensive security services across hybrid multi-cloud environments. Our partnership with Fortinet allows customers to modernize networks virtually, ensuring secure and seamless global connectivity. This collaboration reflects Equinix’s commitment to driving innovation and delivering value through transformative digital infrastructure solutions.”
– Maryam Zand, Vice President of Partnerships and Ecosystem Development, Equinix
“Our relationship with Fortinet spans nearly 18 years as part of Fortinet’s open ecosystem. As two channel-led companies, we are closely aligned at the field level worldwide. As organizations move from ‘on-premises to cloud’ within hybrid enterprises, complexity grows and can become unmanageable. The need for policy hygiene, management, visibility and real-time automation is more important than ever. Our joint integrations provide an additional layer of granular policy management and visibility, strengthening Fortinet’s technology and helping customers solve their most pressing business and security challenges.”
– Nicole Stavroff, Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances, FireMon
“As a Fabric-Ready Partner, Gigamon is proud to be part of a collaborative ecosystem that enables customers to securely protect and manage their hybrid cloud environments. By combining Fortinet Security Fabric with the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, we deliver the comprehensive visibility organizations need to reduce risk, improve performance and operate with greater agility in today’s AI-driven threat landscape. Our proven solution helps customers accelerate secure digital transformation without compromise.”
– Srinivas Chakravarty, Vice President, Cloud Ecosystem, Gigamon
“Fortinet drives innovation at the intersection of secure networking and performance, delivering integrated solutions that meet the evolving needs of today’s digital enterprises. Intel’s leadership in silicon and platform technologies, combined with its expansive ecosystem, enables groundbreaking solutions at scale. Together, Fortinet and Intel empower organizations to accelerate innovation securely—from the data center to the edge.”
– Dorin Vanderjack, Vice President and Head of U.S. OEM and Strategic Accounts Sales, Intel
“Integration of Megaport Virtual Edge with FortiGate VM enables organizations to quickly and easily extend their Fortinet Security Fabric across our global software-defined network. As a Fabric-Ready technology partner, we help companies streamline secure connectivity to major cloud providers and leverage our broader ecosystem, including AIx, FSx and Voice & Video Exchange. This partnership unlocks the full potential of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, FortiSASE and hosted Firewall-as-a-Service deployments, providing the flexibility and performance businesses need to scale securely.”
– Cameron Daniel, CTO, Megaport
“Organizations face pressure to secure every connected asset. Our partnership with Fortinet moves customers from visibility to enforcement by aligning ORDR’s AI-driven workflows and asset intelligence with Fortinet controls to reduce risk and complexity. This is how we accelerated segmentation at Franciscan Health and scaled that success across industries.”
– Steve Stark, Head of Channel Sales, ORDR
“Qualcomm Technologies is proud to participate in Fortinet’s Fabric-Ready Partner Program. This collaboration combines Qualcomm’s leadership in Wi‑Fi 7 and advanced wireless networking technologies with Fortinet’s deep networking security expertise to deliver high-performance connectivity. Together we enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformations through intelligent and secure networking solutions.”
– Ganesh Swaminathan, Vice President and Head of Wireless Infrastructure and Networking, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
“We are proud to collaborate with Fortinet as a Fabric-Ready technology provider in Fortinet’s open ecosystem. Our AI-driven student safety solution, combined with Fortinet’s next-generation network security, equips primary and secondary schools with advanced protection and best-in-class tools to promote digital citizenship, safeguard students, prevent harm and support focused learning.”
– Greg Margossian, Founder and CEO, Saasyan
“In today’s fast-changing threat landscape, automation is essential to secure and scale digital transformation. Through our partnership with Fortinet and its Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Program, we combine the power of the ServiceNow AI platform with Fortinet Security Fabric to streamline security operations and accelerate response. Together we enable customers to build more flexible, resilient and secure digital businesses.”
– Elena Ropaeva, Vice President of Strategic Business Development, ServiceNow
“With growing complexity in today’s enterprise networks, interoperability and collaboration are more important than ever. Security teams face challenges in managing environments securely and efficiently. That is why initiatives like Fortinet’s Fabric-Ready Partner Program are critical to support. Tufin’s visibility, control and automation expertise integrated with Fortinet Security Fabric help our mutual customers maintain strong security posture while supporting business agility.”
– Brian Costello, Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances, Tufin
A differentiated ecosystem
Fortinet’s open ecosystem stands out for its scale and depth, ranking among the most comprehensive in cybersecurity. Fortinet-developed Fabric Connectors provide turnkey automation and synchronize security policies across multi-vendor environments with one-click activation. From partner-developed APIs to community-driven DevOps scripts and threat-sharing collaborations, the ecosystem serves diverse customer needs—from IoT to cloud.
The inclusive philosophy behind the Fabric-Ready Partner Program continues to attract industry leaders and deliver well-designed solutions that simplify and secure customers’ digital acceleration journeys.