Fortinet Inc.

History

Year	Detail
2000	Fortinet was founded in 2000 by brothers Ken and Michael Xie in Sunnyvale, California. The company's first and foremost product was FortiGate, a physical firewall.
2016	Fortinet signed a cyber partnership agreement with the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) to conduct two-way information sharing on cyber threat intelligence.
2017	Fortinet expanded its technology alliance with Microsoft to deliver Cloud Security at scale for global enterprise customers.
2017	Leidos, a science and technology company, partnered with Fortinet to provide expert service for the Fortinet Security Fabric portfolio of solutions.
2018	HKT, Hong Kong's premier telecommunications service provider, collaborated with Fortinet to offer the industry’s broadest enterprise security services.
2019	The company acquired CyberSponse, a Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform provider based in Arlington, Virginia, to further empower security operations teams to achieve higher efficiencies and accelerate incident response.
2019	Fortinet and Siemens partnered to provide cybersecurity solutions for Operational Technology (OT) networks and building technology networks.
2019	On October 28, 2019, Fortinet announced the acquisition of enSilo, Inc., a provider of advanced endpoint security.
2020	Fortinet acquired network monitoring and remediation innovator Panopta to deliver a comprehensive Security-driven Networking platform by adding new capabilities in network monitoring, detection, and incident response.
2021	Fortinet partnered with BT to expand their managed network services with Secure SD-WAN.
2022	Rockwell Automation partnered with Fortinet to provide cybersecurity protection to global customers by combining advanced networking and security capabilities.
2023	To extend its unified SASE footprint, the company expanded its strategic partnership with Digital Realty, a global cloud and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions provider.
2024	The company acquired Lacework, a cloud security and cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), to add an AI-driven cloud-native application protection platform to the Fortinet Security Fabric.