Fortinet has just completed the acquisition of Perception Point, a leader in advanced collaboration and email security. This strategic acquisition will enhance our mission to provide end-to-end cybersecurity by extending protection beyond email into the broader modern workspace.

The addition of Perception Point to the Fortinet Security Fabric underscores Fortinet's commitment to simplify cybersecurity through consolidation, integrating diverse security tools into a unified platform to protect our customers more effectively. Perception Point's innovative AI-powered capabilities secure email, critical collaboration platforms like Slack and Teams, web browsers, cloud storage apps, and more-essential tools for today's hybrid and cloud-first environments. By combining our strengths, Fortinet and Perception Point will redefine how organizations secure user-facing applications and combat sophisticated threats across their digital ecosystems.

Securing the Evolving Communication and Collaboration Landscape

The modern workspace is no longer defined by email alone. Today's businesses rely on many tools to stay connected and productive, including messaging platforms like Slack and Teams, file-sharing services, and SaaS apps. While these tools have become indispensable to operations, they also introduce complexity and unique security challenges for businesses. In fact, Gartner found that "Human errors account for 68% of all security breaches. Users often fall victim to phishing attacks, click malicious links, and reuse weak passwords, unknowingly granting attackers access to sensitive information or to the organization."¹

With the Perception Point acquisition, Fortinet is expanding its ability to secure these critical tools while maintaining a proactive approach to defending against advanced threats. Delivered through a cloud-native architecture, the addition of this solution to the Fortinet Security Fabric will add to our user-facing security capabilities by broadening protections across diverse communication channels, including collaboration applications, cloud storage applications, messaging platforms, and social networks.

Traditional security solutions often fail to address the growing risks posed by today's modern work environments. Fortinet aims to bridge this critical gap with a comprehensive vision that includes:

• AI-powered workspace security: Leveraging advanced AI, machine learning, and image recognition to detect and prevent sophisticated threats such as phishing, malware, data loss, and business email compromise (BEC)
• Collaboration app security: Providing robust protection for essential platforms like Slack, Teams, and cloud storage services where sensitive data is frequently shared and stored
• Cloud-native scalability: Ensuring seamless integration across hybrid environments using cloud-native solutions to provide the flexibility and scalability organizations need to adapt to evolving network and security demands

This holistic approach ensures organizations can defend against emerging threats while maintaining operational agility and efficiency.

A Seamless Fit with the Fortinet Vision

Perception Point aligns with Fortinet's vision to simplify and consolidate security from disparate tools into a unified, integrated platform. By extending Fortinet's AI-driven security operations (SecOps) portfolio and FortiMail user-facing security to encompass the entire workspace, we aim to deliver robust protection across every touchpoint of digital communication.

Perception Point's technology is instrumental in realizing this vision. Its advanced features include:

• Advanced threat detection: Use AI and deep learning to identify and mitigate complex threats like BEC, spear phishing, zero-day exploits, and insider attacks in real time
• Browser security: Ensure data loss prevention, browser governance, and advanced threat protection across SaaS applications
• Image and file scanning: Comprehensive scanning for malicious content within attachments, images, and links shared across collaboration platforms, ensuring end-to-end security
• Dynamic analysis: Behavioral analysis of links and files to detect suspicious activity before it impacts users, powered by cloud-hosted, patented, CPU-level sandboxing for minimal latency
• API-level integration: Deep integration with tools like Exchange Online, Google Workspace email, Slack, Teams, and file-sharing platforms for seamless security without disrupting workflows

This approach simplifies policy enforcement, reduces operational complexity, and ensures organizations can protect their expanded digital workspace effectively.

Driving Innovation to Secure the Future of Work

As reliance on tools beyond email like Slack and Teams grows, Fortinet is focused on ensuring these platforms remain secure and resilient in the face of evolving cyber risks. This latest acquisition reflects our unwavering commitment to delivering forward-looking cybersecurity solutions tailored to the evolving needs of today's organizations.

Perception Point is recognized by Frost & Sullivan and other industry analysts as a leader in advanced email security. The addition of Perception Point's advanced AI technologies into the Fortinet SecOps portfolio expands protections across email, browser, collaboration platforms, and file-sharing tools.

What's Next?

This strategic move improves our ability to secure the modern workspace and further solidifies Fortinet's position as the leader in securing the future of work, whether on-premises, remote, or in the cloud. By integrating Perception Point's advanced capabilities, organizations will be empowered to protect their communications channels, simplify operations, and mitigate risks across their expanding digital ecosystems.

The Perception Point solution is available through AWS Marketplace and your current channels. The solution is also ideal for managed service providers to enhance their services and offerings.

Learn more about Perception Point by signing up for a free demo today.

Stay tuned as we continue to deliver innovations designed to enhance how you secure your ongoing digital transformation.

Get a Demo Today | Explore Fortinet's Security Solutions

¹Gartner, 4 Tenets to Address Advanced Email Security Threats, 14 October 2024 - ID G00801182 - Satarupa Patnaik, Franz Hinner

Public link

Please use the above public link if you want to share this noodl on another website.