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Red Dot Award

Red Dot Product Design Award

(2024)
Fortinet wins the prestigious 2024 Red Dot Product Design Award​ for the FortiGate Rugged 70G with Dual 5G Modems.
Control Engineering 2024 Product of the Year Silver Award

Control Engineering 2024 Silver Award in the Safety & Security Category

(2024)
FortiGate 70F Rugged Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) from Fortinet Inc. has been voted among the best new products of 2024 by subscribers of Control Engineering​.
2024 Channel Awards, 22nd edition

Best Security Vendor

(2024)
Fortinet has been for the sixth time in a row elected "Best security vendor" during the virtual Belgium Channel Awards 2024 ceremony. This is the result of the recognition of our distributors, partners, and customers, thanks to the dedication and hard work of an entire team.
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Best Security Vendor

(2022)
Fortinet has been for the third time in a row elected "Best security vendor" during the virtual Belgium Channel Awards 2022 ceremony. This is the result of the recognition of our distributors, partners, and customers, thanks to the dedication and hard work of an entire team.
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Best Security Vendor

(2021)
Fortinet has been for the second time elected "Best security vendor" during the virtual Belgium Channel Awards 2021 ceremony. This is the result of the recognition of our distributors, partners, and customers, thanks to the dedication and hard work of an entire team.
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2020 Frost & Sullivan - Network Security Provider Company of the Year in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(2020)
Fortinet won the Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 KSA Network Security Company of the Year Award. Fortinet has been recognized for leading the way in security innovation and helping companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and others across the Middle East to address the security challenges digital innovation has created, from numerous IoT-connected devices to multi-cloud environments. Fortinet has consolidated and strengthened itself as a leading firm delivering high performance network security solutions to the KSA market.
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Best Security Vendor

(2020)
Fortinet was elected as "Best Security Vendor" at the Belgian Channel Awards 2020 during a ceremony held on 2020, January 30th. This award recognizes the added-value of Fortinet's proposal to its partners and their customers.
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Produkt Roku 2019 IT w Administracji : Fortinet FortiGate 3600E readers’ and magazine’s choice 
(2019)
The FortiGate 3600E series in the Safety devices category won the 3rd place as the Product of the Year 2019 in the monthly IT in Administration. As part of the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) offer flexible deployments from the network edge to the core, data center, internal segment, and the Cloud. The main idea of the plebiscite is to award and promote the best IT products used in everyday work in public sector units.
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Produkt Roku 2019 IT Professional : Fortinet FortiClient 6.2 magazine’s choice 
(2019)
Fortinet FortiClient 6.2 has been awarded the Product of the Year 2019 IT Professional in the software and cloud solution category – antivirus. This award has been selected by the editors of the monthly "IT Professional". The Product of the Year IT Professional is a plebiscite in which the best solutions used in the daily work of IT specialists and managers are rewarded.
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Produkt Roku 2019 IT Professional : Fortinet FortiGate 500E readers’ choice 
(2019)
Readers of the monthly "IT Professional" have chosen Fortinet FortiGate 500E as the Product of the Year 2019 IT Professional in the equipment category - UTM and firewall. The Product of the Year IT Professional is a plebiscite in which the best solutions used in the daily work of IT specialists and managers are rewarded by readers or editors.
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18th Star Nite Awards 2019 
(2019)
Fortinet has been recognized as The Best ENTERPRISE NETWORK FIREWALL of 2019 during the 18th edition of Star Nite Award, organized by VAR India. This award is the result of vote based on the feedback received through an online voting from channel partners and VARs.
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2019 MEF Awards 
(2019)
The 2109 MEF Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the global community committed to providing communications solutions optimized for the digital economy. MEF’s awards program is the largest in the world focused on emerging dynamic network services powered by SD-WAN, Carrier Ethernet, LSO, SDN, and NFV technologies. Fortinet is honored to be win two MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept Award for Security Assurance in SD-WAN and Cloud Service Implementation category.
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2019 Frost & Sullivan - Network Security Company of the Year in India 
(2019)
Fortinet was honoured as the ‘Network Security Vendor of the Year’ by Frost & Sullivan’s at the 2019 India ICT Awards. Fortinet was recognised for being one of the most dependable security vendor who has helped enterprises in their digital transformation journey, strong business presence with a well-established ecosystem of partners and service providers, innovation centres located in India focusing on developing products and The Fortinet Security Fabric for its tightly integrated advanced threat protection capabilities, threat intelligence and excellent TCO.
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Network Middle East - Innovation Awards 2019 
(2019)
Fortinet recognized as a leader in security technology services with broad range of products and services, and one that enjoys a strong base of very happy customers in the MEA region
Channel Awards
2019 Channel Awards - Best security Vendor category 
(2019)
Fortinet was recognised as the 'Best Security Vendor' at the Channel Awards Belgium by the ICT distribution actors active on the Belgian market. The Channel, consisting of partners, customers, distributors, retailers and prospects, awarded this price to Fortinet for its excellent partnership, great sales and outstanding longterm relationships. 
CRN Tech Innovators
2018 CRN's Tech Innovator winner in the “Security - IOT” category for Fortinet FortiNAC
(2018)
FortiNAC was recognized with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator award for its IoT protection and its ability " to see everything connected to the network, as well as the ability to control those devices and users." With the proliferation of inherently untrustworthy IoT devices, FortiNAC's visibility and control enable to network operators to safely embrace IoT. 
Network Innovation Awards
Network Innovation Awards
(2018)
"The Fortinet Security Fabric has emerged in the last year as one of the most exciting cyber security developments of the past few years. The fact that other security vendors have since released “fabric” architectures of their own is testament to that. Fortinet also continues to attract IT technology providers to its Fabric-Ready Partner Program-approaching 50 by last count-further extending the Fortinet Security Fabric across cloud, virtual, and software-defined environments, while simplifying multi-vendor security deployments for enterprises and service providers," David Ndichu, Editor, Network ME
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Cyber Security Excellence

(2018)
The 2018 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards honor companies that demonstrate excellence, innovation, and leadership in information security. The awards are based on the vast experience of over 350,000+ cybersecurity professionals. Fortinet is recognized for its high standard for innovation in terms of its clients’ installations, its patented products, and its unique FortiNAC platform.  
Hosting Advice Developers Choice
HostingAdvice.com awards Fortinet Developers’ Choice Award for FortiWeb Web Application Firewall
(2018)
FortiWeb was recognized with the Developers' Choice Award® by HostingAdvice.com for its role in safeguarding the mission-critical web applications of thousands of organizations worldwide. As part of the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiWeb provides comprehensive, high-performance web application security to protect hosted applications from attacks that target known vulnerabilities and zero-day threats.
DealCrunch 2017 Retail Choice Award
DealCrunch awards Fortinet Editor's Retail Choice Award™ for Wi-Fi Analytics tool FortiPresence
(2017)
Fortinet FortiPresence was chosen for the Editor's Retail Choice Award for the ability to "gain unprecedented insights into traffic flow and customer behavior" through the analysis of customers' Wi-Fi devices. This cloud-based retail analytics platform enables both a deeper understanding of customer behavior and the ability to affect that behavior with real-time, location-based marketing activities.
Security Advisor ME 2017
Security Advisor ME recognises excellence in IT security
(2017)
Fortinet was chosen by the readers of Security Advisor ME for its vast portfolio of products and subscription services that scale to meet the network security challenges and requirements of every business size, ranging from SMBs to large enterprises.
UAE Network Security Company 2017
Frost & Sullivan Recognises Fortinet as 2017 UAE Network Security Company of the Year
(2017)
Fortinet has received the 2017 UAE Network Security Company of the Year award from Frost & Sullivan. The company received the recognition after Frost & Sullivan evaluated the company’s focus on revenue growth, portfolio diversity, the technology roadmap and vision for the future to provider solutions to deal with advanced network security threats.
Reseller Hot 50 2016

Fortinet won Reseller Hot 50 awards - Best post sales support

(2016)
The fifth annual Hot 50 Awards distinguishes regional IT organisations for their commitment to the channel business. In this regard, Fortinet was awarded the ‘Best post-sales support by a vendor’ category for the commendable expansion of its partner ecosystem and dedicated post-sales support initiatives.
Security Advisor Award 2016
Fortinet Won Best Network Security Vendor of the Year - Security Advisor Middle East Awards
(2016)
Fortinet was chosen as the Best Network Security Vendor by the judging panel of Security Advisor ME Awards for its broad portfolio of products and subscription services that scale to meet the network security requirements of every business size, ranging from SMBs to large enterprises.
ICT Champion 2016

Fortinet Won the Network Security Appliance Vendor of the Year - The Integrator Awards

(2016)
Fortinet was the deserved winners of the Network Security Appliance Vendor of the Year category at this year’s The Integrator Awards. The company has been making strides in the region with growth initiatives and the launch of a range of products covering every industry size and sector.
Intelligent CIO Excellence Awards 2016
Fortinet won the Intelligent Vendor of the Year award at the Intelligent CIO Technology Excellence Awards Ceremony 2016
(2016)
Fortinet has aptly demonstrated the ability to deliver a broad portfolio of high-performance network security solutions. Its centralized management system enables security consolidation and delivers a simplified, end-to-end security infrastructure, which differentiates the company from the rest of the contenders in the category. Given this innovation, Fortinet has been awarded the Intelligent Vendor of the Year award at the Intelligent CIO Technology Excellence Awards Ceremony 2016. This was a highly competitive category, with industry leaders like Cisco, Arbor Networks and Sophos acting as contenders.
Network World ME 2016
Fortinet won the Network World ME award in the network security vendor of the year category
(2016)
Spending on security technologies is at an all-time high now, driven by the emergence of digitization, cloud, mobile computing and the Internet of Things. Fortinet was selected as the winner of this category due to its comprehensive suites of security solutions, deployed across all verticals.
Leadership Award MSSP 2016

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Fortinet with Leadership Award for Managed Security Service Providers Market

(2016)
Fortinet received the Market Leadership Award for the Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Firewall Market from industry research firm Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan notes that Fortinet has achieved a dominant position with MSSPs with its FortiGate line of high-performance enterprise firewalls. The firm recently ranked over 100 network security platforms, with the FortiGate line scoring the highest possible ranking among North American MSSPs.
Security Vendor of the Year 2016

Fortinet won the Security Vendor of the Year at Network Middle East Awards

(2016)
Fortinet was the deserved winner of the Security Vendor of the Year category at this year’s Network Middle East Awards. The company's efforts in 2015 brought products and subscription services that scale from SMB's to large enterprises, covering every segment from Firewalls, to DDOS, Mobile and Cloud Security and SDNS. The judges felt that Fortinet had further strengthened and expanded its secure wireless vision and enterprise growth focus, making it a worthy winner.
FortiGate 60D Product of the Year 2015

FortiGate 60D won the Product of the Year Award organized by IT w Administracji magazine

(2015)
FortiGate-60D has won the Product of the Year Award by IT w Administracji magazine in the Security - Hardware category.
FortiGate 1000D Product of the Year 2015

FortiGate 1000D and FortiAP S323C won Reader's Choice Product of the Year award by IT Professional

(2015)
IT Professional listed FortiGate 1000D on 1st place in UTM and Firewall category of the Product of the Year plebiscite. IT Professional listed FortiAP S323C on 1st place in WLAN Network category of the Product of the Year plebiscite.
Best Vendor Certification Program 2015

Channel ME - Channel Champions Awards – Best Vendor Certification Program

(December 2015)
Fortinet was awarded the inaugural Channel Champions award for the Best Vendor Certification Program for its NSE Program. Fortinet’s NSE program was picked for being the most parter-centric and intense certification programs aimed at building partner knowledge and expertise in the increasingly complex network security concepts demanded in today’s business environments. The program helps accelerate partner sales, develop new services and validate advanced skills.
ICT Achievement Award 2015

CNME - ICT Achievement Award 2015 – Security Vendor of the Year

(October 2015)
Fortinet has been making strides in the region with growth initiatives and the launch of a range of products covering every industry size and sector. Fortinet was a chosen the winner in this hotly contested category.
Top Vendor Network Security 2015

ECMEA - GEC Open Awards – Top Vendor: Network Security

(October 2015)
Fortinet was awarded the Top Vendor for Network Security, owing to is hard work and collaboration with its partners and the market to achieve consistent growth, and provide customers with highly reliable and proven network security solutions.
Networking Security Vendor of the Year 2015

The Integrator Awards – Networking Security Appliance Vendor of the Year

(June 2015)
Fortinet was chosen as the Networking Security Appliance Vendor of the year for the depth and scope of its solutions. The company’s commitment to catering to businesses of all sizes, along with its world-class technology, makes it a winning combination, and a worthy winner for the award.
Security Vendor of the Year 2015

Network ME Awards – Security Vendor of the Year

(May 2015)
Fortinet won the hotly contested award for Security Vendor of the year. Fortinet has demonstrated an ability to not only provide best-of-breed solutions, but also to educate the market on the threats that currently plague the enterprise.
Channel KSA Vendor of the Year 2015

Channel KSA – Security Vendor of the Year

(April 2015)
Fortinet was chosen as the winner owing to its dedication to the channel community in Saudi Arabic, its channel presence and initiatives, and the depth of its solution offerings.
Network World Vendor of the Year 2015

Network World Middle East Awards – Security Vendor of the Year

(March 2015)
The advent of mobility, agile infrastructure and cloud along with the changing threat landscape, means enterprises are increasingly demanding high-performance, integrated security solutions, and support. Fortinet was chosen by Network World ME Awards judging panel in this most contested category, for its full range of network security products and impressive list of implementations across all verticals.
Catalyst 2015 Award

ECMEA - Catalyst Awards

(February 2015)
Fortinet’s Channel Director for the Middle East, Maya Zakhour, won the Catalyst 2015 Award for Channel Sales. Her work on expanding and raising Fortinet’s business and presence in the region while driving the company’s go-to-market strategy across all solutions within the Fortinet Product family, led her to winning recognition from the judges and the publication.
Network World ME Awards 2015
Fortinet won network security vendor of the year honor at Network World Middle East Awards
(March 2015)
The prestigious award recognizes Fortinet as the region’s foremost provider of highly reliable, high-performance network security solutions. Fortinet was chosen by the Network World ME Awards judging panel for its full range of network security products and impressive list of implementations across all verticals.
Italian Channel Awards 2015
Italian Channel Awards 2014
(February 2015)
Italian Channel Awards 2014 recognized Fortinet as the best security vendor of the year due to its comprehensive portfolio, performance, and growth.
FortiDDoS Networld Product of the Year
Fortinet's FortiDDoS-400B won Networld's Product of the Year Award
(January 2015)
Networld Awards recognized Fortinet's FortiDDoS-400B as the best product of the year thanks to its high performance, functionality, and flexible deployments designed to defend the corporate network against DDoS threats.