Fortinet leads in Gartner Magic Quadrant for hybrid mesh firewalls

Fortinet, the global cybersecurity provider driving the convergence of networking and security has been recognised as a Leader in the inaugural 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall and was positioned highest for Ability to Execute.

With this latest accolade, Fortinet is now recognised in 12 Gartner Magic Quadrant reports. Powered by custom-built ASICs for accelerated performance, and FortiOS, a single operating system unifying hardware and virtual deployments, Fortinet solutions comprise a converged networking and security platform.

“Being recognised as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall and placed highest in Ability to Execute, we believe, validates our commitment to delivering convergence and best-of-breed security with FortiOS everywhere,” said Nirav Shah, Senior VP of Products and Solutions at Fortinet. 

“With FortiAI innovations, integrated SOC, and early adoption of post-quantum cryptography, Fortinet continues to set the standard for protecting organisations across hybrid, dynamic environments.” 

Fortinet believes its recognition in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms underscores its vision for the new-generation security access service edge (SASE) firewall. By natively converging critical networking and security functions, including network firewalls, software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN), Zero Trust network architecture (ZTNA), secure web gateway, cloud access security brokers (CASB), and data loss prevention (DLP) within a single operating system, FortiOS. 

In this way, Fortinet enables customers to simplify adoption and operations, reduce costs, and enhance user experience. This integrated approach delivers consistent, hybrid secure access across data centres, cloud environments, remote edges, and dynamic workloads.

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Download the report at https://www.fortinet.com/resources/analyst-reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-hmf to read about the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewalls.

Armis, the cyber exposure management and security company, separately announced an expanded partnership with Fortinet. Armis provides deep context into what assets are connected to the network and why they are at risk, strengthening Fortinet’s ability to recommend how to secure at-risk assets and enforce policies.

Together, Armis and Fortinet provide asset visibility, management, and enforcement capabilities that help security teams make architectural improvements, automate security programmes, and protect the modern, expanded attack surface.

"Customers are tired of managing fragmented security tools that don’t talk to each other; they want best-in-class solutions that work together to solve complex, real-world problems head-on," said Nadir Izrael, Co-Founder and CTO of Armis.

"Our partnership with Fortinet is about fundamentally simplifying security programs and providing security teams the confidence that comes from a truly integrated defence. It’s a game-changer for organisations to effectively preempt threats instead of constantly reacting to them."

“Fortinet has a customer-first culture built on openness, teamwork, and innovation, and partnering with a leader like Armis to stop sophisticated attacks illustrates how we’re listening to our customers,” said John Whittle, COO, Fortinet.

“We deliver the industry’s most robust threat intelligence and advanced AI for security, backed by Fortinet’s AI patent portfolio—the largest in cybersecurity. Expanding our partnership with Armis will give customers unified visibility and integrated defence across their growing digital attack surfaces.”

Armis Centrix and FortiOS, the foundation of the Fortinet Security Fabric, jointly deliver a unified security ecosystem that provides unmatched visibility, real-time risk context, more enrichment and automated enforcement across the modern attack surface. 

With more than eight joint integrations, the combined solutions help enterprises eliminate blind spots, detect and contain threats faster, and enforce intelligent policies at scale. The integrations leverage Armis’ Asset Intelligence Engine, which tracks over 6.5 billion device assets, to provide recommendations and apply policies and features from products like FortiGate, FortiNAC, and FortiManager. Fortinet SecOps products are also enriched as a result, including FortiSOAR, FortiSIEM, FortiEDR, and FortiAnalyzer. 

*ASIC stands for application-specific integrated circuit, basically a custom chip, and SOC stands for security operations centre.