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Overview

As the hybrid workforce becomes the new normal, employees must be able to securely access all of their work applications from multiple locations. Fortinet Universal ZTNA ensures secure access to applications hosted anywhere, whether users are working remotely or in the office. 

Securing Application Access with Fortinet ZTNA

Zero Trust is all about trusting users and devices only after they have been verified. Watch the video to learn how to achieve simple, automatic secure remote access that verifies who and what is on your network. Fortinet ZTNA secures application access no matter where users are located.

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Fortinet Universal ZTNA

Watch this demo to see how the elements of the Fortinet Security Fabric work together to enable Zero Trust. This demo shows how the ZTNA application gateway in FortiOS acts as an enforcement point and the ZTNA agent in FortiClient provides the device posture and SSO, all supported by FortiAuthenticator for user identity.

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Diagram depicting Fortinet's Universal Zero Trust Network Access architecture. The Universal ZTNA architecture connects users from wherever they are (including campus, branch, and remote locations) to wherever the application is (including cloud service providers, SaaS apps, and data centers). These connections go through the ZTNA application gateway, which verifies user and device identity and posture checks prior to access.

Fortinet brings Universal ZTNA to the Fortinet Security Fabric

Our unique approach, delivering Universal ZTNA as part of our operating system, makes it uniquely scalable and flexible for both cloud-delivered or on-prem deployments, covering users whether they are in the office or remote. Our solution provides for a network of enforcement points, orchestrated by FortiClient EMS, that creates a low-latency architecture where we can apply security inspections on top of the ZTNA controls.

For existing Fortinet customers, ZTNA is even easier to implement, as the ZTNA capabilities are not licensed but are incorporated into the operating system and available for use.  

Features and Benefits

Flexible Deployment

Enables ZTNA policies to be enforced for both remote workers and on-site workers

Granular Access Control

Grants access to a specific application only for that session

Ongoing verification

Verifies the user identity, the device identity and posture, before granting access to an application

Unified FortiClient Agent

Provides VPN, ZTNA, vulnerability scanning, URL filtering and endpoint protection with a single agent

No Extra Cost

Allows moving from VPN to ZTNA over time, as a free feature of FortiOS 7.0 and above

Automatic Encrypted Tunnels

Establishes TLS encryption automatically between endpoint and access proxy, hiding traffic

Fortinet Universal ZTNA Use Cases

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Work from Anywhere
Enables secure and granular access to applications to improve security and the user experience—anywhere, anytime.
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Risk reduction
Ensures only users and devices that should access an application, can, with the help of multi-factor authentication (MFA).
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Cloud journey
A ZTNA proxy lets apps move to the cloud, between clouds, and back to campus—without impacting user experience.

Enterprise Analyst Validation

2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge
2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE
Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Zero Trust Networking, 2023
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Fortinet Named a Challenger in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE)
Recognized in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ reports for Enterprise WWLAN, Single-Vendor SASE and now SSE, we believe this highlights the pivotal role Fortinet plays in shaping network and security landscapes.
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2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE Figure 1. The figure ranks companies on their ability to execute and completeness of vision as of August 2023 on a scatter plot. Fortinet is in the upper left quadrant of Challengers.
Fortinet Named a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE
Fortinet delivers unified management using a single console while delivering seamless integration of SD-WAN and cloud-delivered AI-powered security to secure the hybrid workforce.
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Zero Trust Networking 2023 graph. Zero trust networking technologies are ranked based on expectations and time, falling into the five categories of innovation trigger, peak of inflated expectations, trough of disillusionment, slope of enlightenment, and plateau of productivity.
Gartner recognized Fortinet as a Sample Vendor for 6 technologies, including ZTNA, SASE, and Hybrid Mesh Firewall Platform
This new report describes technologies that you can deploy to bring zero-trust principles across your entire network. Fortinet is pleased to be a Sample Vendor in the Universal ZTNA, Hybrid Mesh Firewall Platform, Digital Experience Monitoring, SASE, ZTNA, and Microsegmentation technologies.
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Case Studies

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How ZTNA Is Taking Flight at a Precision-Equipment Manufacturer
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Remote Users Switch From VPNs to ZTNA for Easier and More Secure Application Access

Gartner® Peer Insights™ Reviews

Fortinet is proud to have been named a 2023 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Security Service Edge. We are even more proud that 96% of reviewers would be willing to recommend our Universal ZTNA solution. Earning 4.7 stars out of 5 with over 90 reviews shows that many of our customers think highly of Fortinet Universal ZTNA. Here are some of the nice things that Fortinet customers say about our solution. Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice 2023
★★★★★
FortiClient ZTNA - Agent with 360 coverage

It's a completed agent that consolidates critical security features like: VPN agent, NGAV, web filtering, application firewall, vulnerability scan, ZTNA and security for endpoints; in addition to integrating with other Fortinet prodcuts, to share threat intelligence.

—  Technical Project Manager in the Telecommunication Industry

★★★★★
Allow Corporate Resources In A Secure Manner Without The Overhead Of Traditional VPN.

Easy to implement and give access to internal resources without the hassle of VPN and limited to my corporate devices only which have the client and policy pushed by my instance.

—  AVP of Systems and Networks

★★★★★
ZTNA Ease Of Use

One of the key strengths of Fortinet's ZTNA solution is its ability to provide granular access controls based on user identity, device posture, and other contextual factors. This allows organizations to implement a more fine-grained security policy that aligns with their specific requirements.

Supervisor in the Banking Industry

★★★★★
Best And Secure Zero Trust Solution

FortiClient ZTNA is very good and effective ZTNA Solution for have a secure traffic from outside access on the Company network and Application. There are in FortiClient are very much capability to keep the network and application safe from outside traffic. I have very good experience with the performance from Fortinet ZTNA

IT Executive in the Healthcare and Biotech Industry

★★★★★
Excellent Service With And Varity Of Great Products

We are using the Fortinet different Products like firewall and switches. We are using this product for the O.T. Environment as a security enhancement for the security in the O.T. Network as well as the establishing the communication with the other devices like teltonika and other its successfully integrated as well as communicating with the devices.

Manager, IT Security and Risk Management in the Energy and Utilities Industry

Resources

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ZTNA News

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge, Charlie Winckless, Thomas Lintemuth, Dale Koeppen, Published 15 April 2024
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, Jonathan Forest, Naresh Singh, Andrew Lerner, Karen Brown, 27 September 2023.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Neil MacDonald, Nat Smith, Charlie Winckless, 16 August 2023
Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Security Service Edge, Peer Contributors, 29 September 2023

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