Jim Richberg, field chief information security officer at Fortinet, has said that organizations need to be proactive in protecting disparate networks against end-to-end ransomware threats based on an “as-a-service” framework.

A new Fortinet report has found that instances of cyber attacks increased during the first half of the year as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted normal operations and transitioned workplace activities to remote settings.

The Department of Defense has certified Fortinet’s web gateway technology for inclusion in the DoD Information Network Approved Products List, enabling the company to offer the cybersecurity tool to DoD agencies.

Jim Richberg, field chief information security officer at Fortinet, wrote in a guest piece published Wednesday on GCN that government CISOs with limited budget resources and staff should leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation to accelerate detection and response to cyber attacks.

Fortinet has unveiled an on-premise tool that uses deep neural networks to self-learn cybersecurity and threat mitigation actions.

Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s federal business, has said that agencies need to implement automated operations and new approaches to network protection to keep up with a constantly evolving threat landscape.

Anthony Giandomenico, senior security strategist and researcher at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that cybersecurity teams at federal agencies should be aware of the emerging attack trends as they map out their security strategies.

Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s federal business, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that federal agencies should implement a security-driven networking strategy to speed up cloud adoption and information technology modernization.

Cybersecurity company Fortinet has partnered with Microsoft in an effort to help customers manage, connect and secure workloads in a cloud computing environment.

A new Fortinet report shows that cyber criminals are increasingly leveraging anti-analysis and evasion techniques to prevent detection.

Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s federal business, has said that software-defined wide-area network capabilities can help agencies handle high-bandwidth applications and mitigate potential cyber attacks that result from network vulnerabilities.

Fortinet senior leaders have been invited to share insights at the Inter-American Defense Foundation’s Cyber Defense Conference: Western Hemisphere on May 14 and 15 in Bogota, Colombia.

Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s federal business, said agencies seeking to advance digital transformation should build up cybersecurity by implementing security protocols meant to safeguard connected physical platforms from threat actors. “This includes segmenting physical devices connected to an IP network, baselining and whitelisting behaviors and setting alerts and quarantines that are automatically triggered when behaviors change,” Fortna wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday.

Fortinet has joined the World Economic Forum’s Center for Cybersecurity as a founding partner in a move to help deter cyber crime. WEF established the center to encourage collaboration among members of industry, government, international organizations, academia and civil society to address global cybersecurity challenges, Fortinet said Wednesday. Ken Xie, CEO …

Fortinet’s threat research arm predicts cyber adversaries will exploit artificial intelligence and machine learning to launch attacks on organizations’ networks and other information technology infrastructure in 2019 and beyond. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs expect cyber criminals to accelerate zero-day attacks through the use of the AI fuzzing technique, the company …