Fortinet, Inc.

Fortinet, Inc. is an American cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.. Founded in 2000 by brothers Ken and Michael Xie, the company's core business involves developing and selling a broad range of security products, including firewalls, endpoint security, and intrusion detection systems. Fortinet's mission is to secure the digital future by delivering integrated, high-performance cybersecurity solutions that protect against complex threats, simplify IT infrastructure, and reduce overall costs, aiming to make a digital world that organizations can always trust by securing people, devices, and data everywhere.

The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, notably the Fortinet Security Fabric, which integrates various security technologies. Key offerings include FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiWeb, FortiSIEM, FortiSandbox, FortiClient, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiEDR, FortiMail, and FortiSOAR. These solutions provide next-generation firewalls, antivirus, intrusion prevention, antispyware, antispam, VPN, wireless security, application control, web filtering, and security information and event management. Fortinet serves a diverse customer base, including large enterprises, mid-market businesses, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), service providers, and government entities, with significant adoption in sectors such as finance, healthcare, government, and retail.

Led by Founder, Chairman, and CEO Ken Xie, Fortinet is a publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ and is a component of both the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 indices. In recent news, Fortinet received the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Workload Security in April 2026. The company also released its 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report, which highlighted a significant surge in AI-enabled cybercrime and a 389% year-over-year increase in ransomware victims in 2025. Furthermore, Fortinet introduced FortiOS 8.0 and advanced its SecOps platform with unified SOC, agentic AI, and expanded endpoint security capabilities in March 2026. Fortinet's market positioning emphasizes its role as a global leader in cybersecurity, providing integrated and automated solutions to protect the entire digital attack surface.