Fortinet has held its annual “Fortinet Security Day” event attended by more than a thousand cybersecurity experts, customers and partners; This figure has exceeded the number of attendees from previous editions, which shows the growing interest in cybersecurity in companies.
This event coincided with the company’s 25th anniversary. In a brief review of its history, Acacia Martin, vice president of Fortinet for Iberiacommented that in this time three milestones have occurred that were innovative at each time: replacing perimeter security, coordinating the Fortinet Security Fabric and the emergence of the cloud. With Security Fabric enable automated protection, detection and response along with consolidated visibility across Fortinet solutions and a broad ecosystem of more than 500 third-party solutions.
Martín has also highlighted the company’s positioning in the firewall market, where 1 in every 2 firewalls is its own, and its role as facilitator of the transition from SD-WAN to SASE thanks to FortiSASE, a Security Access to the Edge (SASE) solution that unites SD-WAN connectivity with cloud security on a unified platform. In SASE Fortinet has 13% of the market.
Artificial intelligence has been on everyone’s lips for two years and it seems that it has already lost its novelty, but in the cybersecurity sector, AI is even more intensive since it must be controlled and made scalable.
Alain Sánchez, CISO in EMEA, has emphasized how AI has been introduced into the integrated cybersecurity platform and has shown the results of the report Cybersecurity Skills Gap 2025.
This report shows that 87% of cybersecurity professionals expect AI to improve their functions, offering efficiency and support in a context of lack of skills in this area, but they are also aware of the lack of talent.
Among other issues, Sánchez has confirmed the change in the role of the CISO who must know about geopolitical issues because cybersecurity is linked to global economic issues.
Bet on data “at home”
In January of this year Fortinet inaugurated its own Data Center in Guadalajara in which it has invested more than 40 million euros. This commitment is based on the requirement of having the data within the country itself and taking advantage of all the advantages of the cloud, but complying with the laws and avoiding the risks of having a global cloud.
In addition to bringing data closer to its owners, Fortinet has four clear commitments: public-private collaboration; sustainability; talent training and ethics.
When we talk about cybersecurity it is impossible not to ask about the quantum cryptography. At Fortinet they are aware that there are two types of risk: the data already collected and the interception of the keys.
Thanks to an algorithm they can observe if there have been quantum changes in any access key, at the moment in which an attempt has been made to observe it, it is modified and, from that moment on, that key is rendered useless.
In quantum matters at Fortinet they bet on the sum of the static key without quantum modifications, the local data center and observe that there is no alteration.
