FirstWave strengthens Cloud Security platform with Fortinet Partnership

FPP provides Fortinet’s partners with customized tools and resources, including education and marketing support, to enhance their profit margins and give them access to recurring revenue streams.

Under this partnership, FirstWave’s multi-service, multi-cloud cloud security platform for Telcos and Service Providers will be further enhanced with the integration of Fortinet’s industry leading threat intelligence and advanced threat protection (ATP) solutions.

Through full integration, Telcos or Service Providers with the FirstWave platform can direct enterprise customer traffic through  Fortinet’s virtualised ATP solutions including the FortiGate VM next gen firewall and FortiSandbox, to deliver a potent combination of proactive detection and mitigation.

FirstWave’s unique platform orchestration capabilities (‘MANO’) ensure the appropriate Fortinet virtual ATP solutions and associated cloud resources are rapidly provisioned, activated and configured within the platform. 

FirstWave will also receive from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs actionable threat intelligence about suspicious activity on customer networks. This information can be used to formulate cybersecurity strategies to proactively guard against advanced attacks.

FirstWave’s Managing Director, Steve Obrien said the integration of Fortinet represents another important step in growing and diversifying FCT’s revenue base. 

"Adding to the string of technology partnerships we have announced in recent months, this agreement with Fortinet takes us another step closer to our goal of enhancing our longer term recurring revenue base.  It represents another building block in FCT’s telco technology best-of-breed, multi-cloud strategy in 2017 and beyond.”

Jon McGettigan, Fortinet’s Senior Director for Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific Islands, lauded FirstWave’s decision to adopt Fortinet’s technology to protect its customers against escalating cyber attacks.  

“This partnership with FirstWave is timely, given that cloud has seen a tremendous growth in ANZ in recent years,” he said. ”Through this collaboration, FirstWave’s customers will be able to enjoy the benefits of Fortinet’s Security Fabric, allowing them to be protected across the expanding attack surface, from IoT to the infrastructure core to the cloud.”