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2021 has seen a lot of change. Billionaires now go where only governments and Red Bull gimmicks could go before. The 2020 Olympics didn’t take place in 2020. Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl for a completely new franchise [those of you in the US get this reference]. Similar change in application security has now been defined by an annual report with a new name.

Gartner® published the 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Web Application and API Protection and, despite the new name and expanded scope, Imperva has been named a Leader and rated highest for Completeness of Vision consistently throughout.

Imperva’s vision is to protect all applications for hybrid enterprises

If you picture an application 8 years ago, what you see is not complex: a very large piece of software running on vSphere in a leased data center. APIs were an innovative tool for tiny start-ups [I remember talking to my development team about the advantages of SOAP and why it was too soon to go to REST]. Amazon Web Services was just starting to offer a certification program for engineers. Clearly, 8 years is a very long time in application development time.

And yet, while so much has changed in 8 years, many web applications today are still versions of what was built then. It takes a great deal of methodical planning to properly migrate to cloud-native technologies, such as serverless functions, and gradual investments to effectively architect applications with RESTful and GraphQL APIs. For years, Imperva has continually focused on providing security for organizations in this transition, and the vast majority of them have a mix of legacy and modern across a hybrid environment. This is a key reason why we continue to invest in Web Application and API Protection that our customers can deploy in a variety of ways, from appliances in data centers to SaaS to natively deployed in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

But you cannot protect all of a modern organization simply by adapting the protection they already use — it takes innovative approaches to secure what now comprises the majority of all traffic: APIs. Imperva protected our customers’ APIs prior to 2021, but this year, it became a top priority. A few months ago, we added the ability for customers to discover the APIs receiving traffic outside the view of the security team. And to ensure our customers can continue their modernization, we acquired CloudVector for advanced API security protecting high-scale businesses, but more importantly, for the expertise in the team. Effectively protecting APIs requires a deep understanding of how development operations work and how much it differs from the application development of 8 years ago.

“Imperva is a constant company, strong in market share and with solid solutions.” says Douglas Bernardini, Cyber Security Specialist and Cloud Computing Expert.

If you want to learn more about Imperva’s approach, please view the recorded session with Lebin Cheng, Head of API Security, and Peter Klimek, Office of CTO, here.

Imperva Eight Time Leader – Imperva recognizes the industry needs beyond 2022

To handle all of this change, we believe we have the industry’s best approach to protecting our customers from innovative attacks, and thank Gartner for this report’s recognition. Not every application security vendor has our track record of rapidly integrating the technology of their acquisitions, most recently with how the advanced bot management capabilities from Distil Networks were available to Imperva customers in under a year. We look forward to the 2022 report, once Gartner and the broader market have seen what we will accomplish with the CloudVector team guiding the way.

To download the report, visit here.

To immediately start a free trial of our market-leading Cloud WAAP platform, visit our free trial site.

Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection”; Jeremy D’Hoinne, Rajpreet Kaur, John Watts, Adam Hils, Shilpi Handa; September 20, 2021.

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Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™. For Network Firewalls, marking the twelfth time Fortinet has been recognized in this Magic Quadrant.

Powered by Fortinet’s custom-built SPUs, FortiGate Next-generation Firewalls (NGFWs) deliver industry-leading enterprise security. It protects any edge at scale for customers around the globe. As part of Fortinet’s unique Security-driven Networking approach, which deeply integrates an organization’s network infrastructure and security architecture, the FortiGate NGFW is the only cybersecurity solution on the market that provides natively integrated Secure SD-WAN and ZTNA capabilities without requiring additional licensing to improve security, reduce costs and complexity, and simplify network operations.

Fortinet believes that its placement as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls is a result of FortiGate’s ability to deliver:

Broad Protection – The digital attack surface has continued to expand and organizations are facing growing cyberthreats. The latest FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report reported a tenfold year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks. The FortiGate NGFW count on artificial intelligence and machine learning-enhanced FortiGuard Security Services. It enables large enterprises to manage internal and external threats, prevent ransomware attacks, and avoid business disruptions. Besides that, it allows to protect hybrid and hyperscale architectures with coordinated, automatically shared threat intelligence of AI/ML-powered FortiGuard services.

Consolidation – IT teams struggle to keep pace with the volume and sophistication of cyberthreats. While as the threat landscape expands and organizations continue to introduce new digital innovations. To reduce product sprawl and simplify operations, FortiGate consolidates essential services like IPS, anti-malware, and web and video filtering capabilities with networking functionality such as SD-WAN to achieve the industry’s best total cost of ownership.

Automation – Network and security leaders continue to face challenges as a result of the growing cybersecurity skills gap. The FortiGate NGFW, managed through Fortinet’s Fabric Management Center, helps address these challenges. By providing centralized single-pane-of-glass management capabilities and integration with 400+ ecosystem partners to simplify operations. It allows to coordinate workflows, and deliver consistent policy enforcement across the hybrid network managed via on-premise or from the cloud.

Work-from-Anywhere – As businesses rapidly transition to the work-from-anywhere model, security must be top-of-mind. FortiGate natively enables both Zero Trust Network Access Proxy and SD-WAN. Detail: without additional licenses. It allows users to access applications and resources from anywhere, at any time with constant authentication. Important: meanwhile building effective compliance and security controls.

Enterprise Customers Continue to Rely on FortiGate NGFWs

Fortinet was not just named as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls. The company was also named a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Network Firewalls for the second year in a row. Fortinet believes that customers validation further emphasizes Fortinet’s ability to deliver advanced security to customers across any edge, at scale.

Fortinet was also recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for WAN Edge Infrastructure. The placing highest in the Leaders quadrant was for its ability to execute for Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, which is delivered on the same product – the FortiGate Next-generation Firewall.

“Fortinet is an organization truly committed to bringing innovative solutions in line with market needs.” says Douglas Bernardini, Cyber Security Specialist and Cloud Expert.

Additional Resources

Download the full report and read the blog to learn more.

Watch how Fortinet makes possible a digital world you can always trust, and view how the Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protection across an organization’s entire digital infrastructure.

Read more about how Fortinet customers are securing their organizations.

Learn more about Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), or about the Fortinet Network Security Expert program, Security Academy program, and Veterans program.

Learn more about FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence and research or Outbreak Alerts, which provide timely steps to mitigate breaking cybersecurity attacks. Read more about Fortinet’s FortiGuard security services portfolio.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, By Rajpreet Kaur, Jeremy D’Hoinne, Nat Smith, Adam Hils, 1 November 2021

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