Fortinet Unified SASE converges networking, security, and AI-driven protection into one high-performance platform. Built on a single OS, policy engine, and management plane, it unifies secure SD-WAN, zero trust, and SSE to deliver consistent security, simplified operations, and optimized performance for users everywhere.
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Fortinet Unified SASE protects users accessing the internet, GenAI, and SaaS apps with cloud-delivered security, including FWaaS, SWG, CASB, SSPM, and advanced DLP. It enforces consistent policies and blocks threats without backhauling traffic to data centers.
Eliminate legacy VPN complexity with agent-based or agentless ZTNA. Unified SASE enables secure access to internal apps, applying identity-based policies and contextual controls for contractors, BYOD, and remote employees.
Quickly connect new or remote branches using integrated SD-WAN and SSE, as well as thin edge capabilities. Unified SASE simplifies deployment, enforces consistent security, and ensures optimized performance through its global backbone and cloud-based architecture.
Modernize branch operations by converging networking and security with secure SD-WAN. Unified SASE reduces hardware needs, simplifies management, and enables consistent security and optimized performance at every branch location.
FortiSASEFortiSASE delivers secure, unified access to users everywhere with AI-powered protection.
FortiSASE SovereignFortiSASE Sovereign ensures data residency and control with locally hosted, compliance-ready SASE.
Fortinet Secure SD-WANFast, scalable secure SD-WAN is integrated into FortiGate NGFWs along with a ZTNA application gateway and advanced routing.
Universal ZTNAUniversal ZTNA secures access to all apps with identity-based policies—on-premises, cloud, and remote.
FortiSASE delivers secure, unified access to users everywhere with AI-powered protection.
FortiSASE Sovereign ensures data residency and control with locally hosted, compliance-ready SASE.
Fast, scalable secure SD-WAN is integrated into FortiGate NGFWs along with a ZTNA application gateway and advanced routing.
Universal ZTNA secures access to all apps with identity-based policies—on-premises, cloud, and remote.
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Fortinet Unified SASE addresses the full scope of hybrid workforce security through a comprehensive, single-vendor approach that tightly integrates software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) with cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE), simplifying operations while ensuring consistent protection from the network edge to remote users.
Considerations for selecting the best single-vendor SASE solution for your hybrid workforce
The Benefits of a Unified SASE Solution
This guide will help you understand SD-WAN technology’s key characteristics and advantages and what to look out for when choosing an SDWAN solution, including questions to ask vendors.
Considerations for selecting the best single-vendor SASE solution for your hybrid workforce
This guide will help you understand SD-WAN technology’s key characteristics and advantages and what to look out for when choosing an SDWAN solution, including questions to ask vendors.
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The Benefits of a Unified SASE Solution
Fortinet Unified SASE addresses the full scope of hybrid workforce security through a comprehensive, single-vendor approach that tightly integrates software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) with cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE), simplifying operations while ensuring consistent protection from the network edge to remote users.
FortiSASE is a cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE) solution that provides always-on secure access to private applications.
Much more than just a remote work solution, Fortinet Universal ZTNA conducts user and device checks for every application session for users in the office, in the home, and on the road.
Fortinet Unified SASE integrates networking and security functions, like secure SD-WAN, FWaaS, SWG, CASB, ZTNA, and DLP, as a single-vendor, cloud-delivered platform. This differs from traditional SASE by offering tighter integration and centralized management to deliver the most unified, flexible, and intelligent offering.
AI/ML in Fortinet Unified SASE enhances threat detection, automates response actions, and improves network performance by analyzing traffic patterns and identifying anomalies in real time.
Fortinet Unified SASE is ideal for hybrid workforces, secure branch connectivity, cloud access protection, and consistent policy enforcement across dispersed users and locations.
Fortinet ensures low latency and high performance in a Unified SASE deployment by leveraging its global network of PoPs, integrated SD-WAN optimization, and security processing units (SPUs) for accelerated traffic handling.
Fortinet Unified SASE supports zero-trust principles by enforcing identity-based access with continuous verification through integrated ZTNA, dynamic policy enforcement, and application-aware controls across all users and devices.
Yes, Fortinet Unified SASE is validated with industry certifications like Mplify (formerly MEF) to ensure compliance with recognized standards for network and security services. The Fortinet Unified SASE solution has received the best possible (AAA) rating across all of the security elements tested.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms, By Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, John Watts, July 28 2026
Gartner, Voice of the Customer for ZTNA, Peer Contributors, 24 February 2025
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