Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and Fortinet,a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, have announced the expansion of the Fortinet Security Fabric offerings and new automation capabilities for Alibaba Cloud to provide streamlined and consistent security for organisations with hybrid cloud infrastructures.
The combination of Alibaba Cloud and the Fortinet Security Fabric provide organisations with the ability to extend security visibility and control from the data centre to the cloud and the ability to ensure that organisations employ consistent security policies no matter where their applications are deployed.
By implementing the Fortinet Security Fabric on Alibaba Cloud, customers can apply consistent security policies throughout their hybrid infrastructures and can realise multi-layer security protection and operational benefits for running applications on Alibaba Cloud.
Sodexo and Fung Group are among the global customers leveraging Fortinet’s cloud native integration with Alibaba Cloud to secure its hybrid cloud environment. Sodexo is using Fortinet’s FortiGate-VM to deploy secure VPC on Alibaba Cloud, effectively aggregating and securing its globally distributed infrastructure.
Fung Group is also taking advantage of the integration with the deployment of the FortiGate-VM on Alibaba Cloud, which enables consistent visibility and security management across its cloud environments.
“Fortinet is committed to helping customers make their journey to the cloud even more secure by integrating more tightly with Alibaba Cloud and supporting additional cloud security use cases,” said John Maddison, EVP of Products and Solutions at Fortinet.
“To further support resource-constrained teams, this announcement is helping our joint customers automate additional security processes and more seamlessly integrate into their application life cycle.”
As organisations move workloads and applications to the cloud, the digital attack surface is expanding and making it harder to ensure robust, consistent security across clouds and data centres.
Organisations are looking to take advantage of the agility and scalability that cloud environments offer without compromising security.
Alibaba Cloud’s extended collaboration with Fortinet addresses this concern as it leverages Fortinet’s breadth of cloud security offerings that are part of the Fortinet Security Fabric.
Additional benefits of this expanded partnership include:
- Native integration: Fortinet’s security solution will natively integrate with Alibaba Cloud for seamless integration with workloads running in Alibaba Cloud. As a Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner, Alibaba Cloud will integrate its APIs with the Fortinet Security Fabric to provide more consistent and effective end-to-end security to end users.
- Broad protection: The Fortinet Security Fabric for Alibaba Cloud includes a broad range of Fortinet security offerings including: FortiGateVM, FortiWeb, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and Fabric Connectors. These solutions address a broad set of use cases including protecting cloud workloads, securing hybrid cloud and cloud-based security management.
- Management and automation: With the expanded integration, Alibaba Cloud’s security functionalities can be managed through the Fortinet Security Management tools across both Alibaba Cloud and on-premises deployments to streamline security operations. Customers can leverage automation capabilities provided by the Fortinet Security Fabric, leveraging APIs and stitches for example, to further streamline and automate operations.
Fortinet’s cloud security solutions are available on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace or can be purchased from a Fortinet channel partner providing customers with the flexibility of purchasing only on demand or owning a license that is transferable across platforms.