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Fortinet completes
acquisition of
Bradford Networks
ortinet, a global leader in broad,
integrated and automated
cybersecurity solutions, has
completed the acquisition of Bradford
Networks, further enhancing the Fortinet
Security Fabric by converging access
control and IoT security solutions to
provide large enterprises with broader
visibility and security for their complex
networks. Benefits include:
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• Complete, continuous, agentless
visibility of endpoints, users,
trusted and untrusted devices and
applications accessing the network
including IoT and headless devices
• Enhanced IoT security through
device micro segmentation, dynamic
classification of headless devices
by type, profile, as well as automatic
policy assignment to enable granular
isolation of insecure devices, all
using a simple web user interface
• Accurate event triage and threat
containment in seconds through
automated workflow integrations that
prevent lateral movement
• Easy, cost-effective deployment
due to highly scalable architecture
that eliminates deployment at every
location of a multi-site installation
“As large organisations continue to
see high growth in network traffic
and the number of devices and users
accessing their networks, the risk of
breach increases exponentially,” said
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet.
“According to a recent Forrester study,
82% of companies surveyed are unable
to even identify all devices accessing
their networks. The integration of
Bradford Networks’ technology with
Fortinet’s Security Fabric provides
large enterprises with the continuous
visibility, micro-segmentation and access
control technology they need to contain
threats and block untrusted devices from
accessing the network.”
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MIMECAST APPOINTS NEW
CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER TO
LEADERSHIP TEAM
imecast Limited, a leading
email and data security
company, has announced
Christina Van Houten has joined the
firm’s leadership team as the new
Chief Strategy Officer.
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In this role, Christina will drive
corporate development, product
management and market strategy
as part of building out Mimecast’s
leading email security, archive
and cyber-resilience cloud platform.
“Almost every organisation is
struggling to build truly sustainable
cyber-resilience. Maintaining
security, governance and operational
resilience across an evolving IT
estate is expensive and often
inconvenient,” said Peter Bauer,
Chief Executive Officer at Mimecast.
“At the same time, attackers,
technical failures and human errors
work against IT and security teams that
are already battling to attract and retain
skilled personnel to do the job. Yet,
too often these teams are drowning in
complexity – complexity compounded
by well-intentioned but narrowly focused
vendors solving individual issues.”
“Mimecast aims to help customers by
delivering solutions that help make
cyber-resilience for email much easier
and more affordable with our unique
platform, MimeOS.
“Christina’s experience in driving
innovation on a consistent large-scale
technology platform, delivering a rich
integrated suite and solving emerging
customer problems is invaluable to us in
this new role.”
Christina is a veteran of the enterprise
technology industry, bringing more than
two decades of experience with some of
the world’s largest firms.
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