RESTON, Va., April 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE:
LDOS), a global science and technology company, and Fortinet
(NASDAQ: FTNT) today announced they have signed a partnering
agreement for Leidos to act as an expert service provider for the
Fortinet Security Fabric portfolio of solutions. The agreement
expands Leidos' depth and breadth of existing managed security
services offerings.
Through the partnership Leidos will be positioned as the largest
managed security service provider (MSSP) organization that is
authorized to offer FortiSIEM services to date. Ideally suited to
serve Fortune 1000 and federal government customers, FortiSIEM
services provided by Leidos combine the capabilities of Security
Operations Centers and Network Operations Centers into a unified
Security Information and Event Monitoring solution to provide
actionable analytics and enables information technology to tightly
manage network security, performance and compliance across their
global infrastructures. The partnership also enables both Leidos
and Fortinet to leverage technology and talent to remain agile and
adaptable in a constantly changing cyber threat landscape.
"We are very pleased and excited to partner with Fortinet at a
time when it is critical to have the right technologies and
resources to combat a fluid cyber threat landscape," said President
of Leidos Cyber Inc., Bob Meindl.
"Combing the Fortinet suite of technologies with Leidos' cyber
expertise allows us to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services
to protect our customers in today's threat environment."
"The demands of today's digital economy are driving increasingly
complex networks that require advanced security technologies
managed by exceedingly rare talent to defend. Addressing these
challenges head-on, Fortinet's high-performing, 3rd-party evaluated
products significantly reduce complexity and increase security by
using a Security Fabric that enables security solutions to work as
a team, all under a single pane of glass in our Fortinet
SIEM. Fortinet delivers broad, high-performance and automated
security reinforced by our leading Service Provider enablement
programs to ensure that enterprises have the best defenses,
operated by the industry's top security practitioners," said
Phil Quade, chief information
Security Officer at Fortinet. "We're excited to partner with Leidos
and work together with their leading security professionals to
protect our joint customers against an increasingly hostile threat
landscape."
Leidos and Fortinet are both also part of the U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA) Managed Trusted Internet Protocol
Services (MTIPS) program. MTIPS was developed to allow US Federal
agencies to physically and logically connect to the public Internet
and other external connections in compliance with the Office of
Management and Budget's (OMB) Trusted Internet Connection (TIC)
Initiative.
About Leidos
Leidos is a global science and technology
solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest
challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil,
and health markets. The company's 32,000 employees support vital
missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in
Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported
annual revenues of approximately $7.04
billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2016. For more information, visit
www.Leidos.com.
About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) secures the
largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations
around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent,
seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the
power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the
borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet
Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without
compromise to address the most critical security challenges,
whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments.
Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide
and more than 300,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their
businesses. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the
Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
Media Contacts:
Jennifer
Moffett, Leidos.
Jennifer.a.moffett@leidos.com
(571) 526-6852
Dan Mellinger, Fortinet
dmellinger@fortinet.com
(415) 572-0216
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