From a software perspective, Sovereign SASE supports the same features offered as part of Fortinet’s security services (SSE) offering, FortiSASE. The difference with Sovereign SASE is the way SASE is used, says Shah. With Sovereign SASE, customers or partners (including managed security service providers) host hardware based on Fortinet’s pre-defined hardware stacks, which vary in scale requirements such as number of users and bandwidth.
FortiAI brings AI smarts to Unified SASE
These days almost every vendor should have some type of AI-enhanced service, and Fortinet is no exception. Fortinet introduced its FortiAI technology last December, and since then, it has been integrating generative AI technology throughout its Fortinet Security Fabric.
Previous releases of FortiAI focused on accelerating threat investigation and remediation for SOC analysts, SecOps and network operations teams, so they can configure and manage their networks and seamlessly investigate and remediate threats.
The latest integration as part of Unified SASE is Fortinet Secure SD-WAN.
GenAI’s integration with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN helps from Day 0 through Day 2, says Shah. That includes automatic configuration of secure underlying SD-WAN tunnels between sites, setting SD-WAN policies, troubleshooting issues like why tunnels are down, or mitigating IoT vulnerabilities.
“Using FortiAI across the Fortinet Security Fabric is about simplifying things for resource-strapped IT teams and reducing arduous or repetitive tasks,” said Shah.
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