The Fortinet SecOps solution helps organizations and businesses detect and prevent threats from cyber attacks. — Photo of Fortinet
Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, on August 14 announced the results of an independent analysis by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to quantify the customer benefits of deploying security operations solutions from Fortinet.
The analysis determined that customers dramatically improved detection, containment, investigation and response while making security teams up to 86 per cent more operationally efficient.
Organisations reduced cyber risk, improved productivity, and enabled existing teams to do more in less time. And all of these improvements come with an investment payback period of as little as one month.
“To secure the rapidly expanding attack surface against accelerating cyber threats, enterprises must deploy cybersecurity solutions that leverage artificial intelligence [AI] at the heart of an integrated cybersecurity platform," said John Maddison, Fortinet's Chief Marketing Officer and EVP, Product Strategy.
"We’re pleased that ESG has quantified the dramatic benefits of Fortinet’s approach to security operations [SecOps], helping enterprises make informed decisions about the advantage of automated incident detection and containment, as well as broader investigation and response.”
The foundation of the ESG analysis was in-depth interviews with end users during which they established the time it took each organisation to handle critical security operations functions such as the time to detect, validate, and contain incidents as well as the time to fully investigate and remediate them.
Together with technical documentation, existing case studies, third-party analyses, and industry data, ESG was then able to establish qualitative and quantitative benchmarks around these functions, especially potential risk, time, and cost savings the average organisation should expect.
According to the ESG analysis, organisations that implemented Fortinet Security Operations solutions realised significant savings and benefits in the three areas of Early Detection and Prevention (EDP); Central Analytics and Response Automation (CARA); and Training and Preparation.
Beyond the accelerated time to detect, contain, investigate and respond to incidents, ESG modeled the expected operational savings related to security team productivity reported by participants.
The Fortinet SecOps Fabric applies artificial intelligence, machine learning, and integration across the expanded digital attack surface with distributed security controls that span network, endpoint, application, and cloud that detect components and activity designed to bypass traditional security and hide among legitimate operations. At the same time, a centralized approach to broader investigation and response speeds an organization’s return to safe operation. — VNS