With the addition of a single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering powered by Fortinet solutions, GTT Communications is expanding its managed Secure Connect portfolio. It means that GTT is expanding its existing relationship with Fortinet to provide businesses more options and adaptability in managed network security, therefore assisting in the protection of hybrid workforces and their applications.
GTT delivers its managed network and security services to multinational corporations. These enhanced capabilities combine GTT’s Managed SD-WAN and full suite of professional services for real-time visibility and control with Fortinet’s security networking technologies, such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), Cloud Access Secure Broker (CASB), and Secure Web Gateway (SWG).
GTT is keeping all traffic on its global IP backbone by using Fortinet solutions inside its network architecture. This would increase network availability and guarantee enhanced security while also assisting in the reduction of latency, jitter, and packet loss.
To help businesses save costs, streamline operations, and handle challenging security issues, GTT gives its clients the option of implementing their customized and scalable SASE solutions on-site or in the cloud via virtual machines. GTT’s managed Secure Connect portfolio includes a single-vendor and dual-vendor SASE solution, helping to safeguard clients from the application to the endpoint while giving IT and security teams even more insight and control.
Secured Networking Solutions
Fletcher Keister, Chief Product & Technology Officer of GTTAccording to Fletcher Keister, Chief Product & Technology Officer of GTT, “Many enterprises are looking to consolidate their technology stack, and GTT is poised to help solve the business networking and security challenges facing our customers in an ever-evolving threat landscape. As a seasoned and reliable networking supplier, GTT can provide our clients sophisticated security solutions with internal knowledge and worldwide connectivity. We are thrilled to collaborate with Fortinet and its cutting-edge secure networking solutions, which allow networking and security to coexist together.”
According to John Maddison, CMO and EVP of Product Strategy at Fortinet, “GTT’s leadership as a network service provider, combined with the Fortinet portfolio of security services, aims to strengthen the security levels today’s enterprise networks need. Our joint enterprise-level customers will benefit from the integration of Fortinet's secure networking solutions as they embark on their advanced networking journeys and the convergence of networking and security will be facilitated.”
For more than ten years now, GTT and Fortinet have joined forces to provide secured networking solutions to companies all around the globe.
The Rationale behind SASE Strategy Implementation
Companies may benefit from implementing a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) strategy in several ways. By combining network and security functions into a single, cloud-native solution, it improves security primarily. Regardless of user location or device, this all-encompassing solution enables uniform and dynamic security rules across the network of a business.
SASE successfully adapts to the increasingly scattered nature of contemporary workforces by enabling safe access to resources and applications from any location, hence supporting the rising trend of remote work and mobile users. Businesses hoping to sustain high production levels and smooth teamwork must embrace this flexibility.
Furthermore, SASE streamlines network construction and administration by combining networking and security services. It streamlines IT operations and lowers operating expenses by removing the complexity usually involved in maintaining many stand-alone security systems.
And lastly, SASE’s cloud-centric architecture grows with business requirements with ease, providing agility and the capacity to promptly adjust to shifting business environments, including the swiftly changing landscape of cybersecurity threats. Because of its scalability, companies may continue to implement strong security measures even as they expand and change.
