Fortinet Serves as a Founding Partner of World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity
January 02 2019 - 9:00AM
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO,
Fortinet“We are proud to be the first cybersecurity
company named a founding partner of the World Economic Forum Centre
for Cybersecurity and look forward to collaborating with global
leaders from the private and public sectors through our shared
commitment to deliver a response to the growing global
cybersecurity threat. The World Economic Forum’s Centre for
Cybersecurity is important for global multi-stakeholder
collaboration, and serving as a founding partner of the Centre is
yet another step forward in our own mission to secure the largest
enterprise, service provider, and government organizations in the
world.”
News Summary:Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global
leader in broad, integrated and automated cyber security solutions,
today announced the company has been named the first cybersecurity
founding partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Centre for
Cybersecurity and CEO Ken Xie will serve as a member of the Centre
for Cybersecurity Advisory Board.
A Global Response to a Global ThreatWEF and
Fortinet both believe that the global threat to our digital economy
requires a global response. To respond to that threat and shape the
future of cybersecurity, WEF has established the Centre for
Cybersecurity, a global network of partners from business,
government, international organizations, academia, and civil
society to collaborate on cybersecurity challenges. Fortinet’s
partnership with the Centre is further reinforcement of the
company’s longstanding commitment to public and private sector
collaboration. In conjunction with the Centre for Cybersecurity,
Fortinet will continue its efforts to collaborate, innovate and
develop powerful global solutions to reduce global cyberattacks,
contain current and future cyberattacks, and deter cybercrime.
As part of the company’s activity surrounding the WEF
Centre for Cybersecurity and WEF Annual Meeting in
Davos:
- Ken Xie, Chairman of the Board, CEO and founder of Fortinet,
and Phil Quade, CISO at Fortinet, took part in planning discussions
in the inaugural Annual Gathering of the Centre for Cybersecurity
in Geneva, Switzerland November 26 – 27.
- It was announced at the Annual Gathering that Accenture,
Fortinet and Sberbank are Founding Partners of the Centre and Xie
was named to the Centre for Cybersecurity Advisory Board.
- Xie has been named a discussion leader at the upcoming WEF
Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland for the Centre for
Cybersecurity Cyber Workforce session on Tuesday, January 22,
2019.
As part of its charter, the Centre for Cybersecurity is
committed to:
- Establishing, activating and coordinating global public-private
partnerships to encourage intelligence sharing and the development
of cyber norms.
- Collectively developing, testing and implementing cutting-edge
knowledge and tools to foresee and protect against cyberattacks,
current and future.
- Implementing global capacity-building and training programs to
produce the next generation of cybersecurity
professionals.
- Establishing, coordinating and facilitating a Global
Rapid-Reaction Cybersecurity Task Force comprised of experts from
our partner community to help mitigate the negative impact of
severe global cyberattacks.
Fortinet firmly believes in the Centre’s objectives, and
is also committed to helping lead the following
initiatives:
- Building trust across international borders○ New
technologies have brought forward productivity gains and
opportunity, but have also extended the threat surface, exposing
citizens, consumers, companies, and countries to new threats and
vulnerabilities. To fight increasing cybercrime, the global
community needs to overcome several major challenges, including
lack of trust and cooperation.○ As the digital and physical
worlds become more interconnected, actionable threat intelligence
with global visibility is the best way to move from being reactive
to proactive in a world where cybercrime has no borders. No single
organization has a complete view into the security landscape, which
is why sharing and collaboration between public and private
organizations is critical.○ Building trust is about more than
technology and innovation. Fortinet helps shape the future of
threat information standards and protocols through ongoing
collaboration with global public safety and industry
organizations. ○ Fortinet is a founding member of the
Cyber Threat Alliance, has a partnership with the NATO
Communications and Information Agency, and is a member of an expert
working group within INTERPOL.
- New opportunities for populations and workforces in the digital
economy○ Address the shortage of cybersecurity skills in
a scalable way: creating a workforce that is relied upon by nearly
everyone across both public and private, and help countries with a
nascent digital economy to jumpstart its tech sector with an
already-indoctrinated cybersecurity-smart population.○ To
help address the cyber skills gap, Fortinet offers a
worldwide Network Security Expert (NSE) program, an
eight-level certification program aimed at advancing aspiring and
technical professionals in their skills and knowledge of today’s
modern cybersecurity landscape. In 2016, the company extended the
program to educators and students through the Fortinet Network
Security Academy (FNSA), facilitating network security
education across the globe to help educate, train, and prepare the
next generation of cybersecurity experts. Further, the Fortinet
Veterans Program (FortiVet) facilitates the transition of
exceptional military veterans into the cybersecurity industry by
providing professional networking, training, and mentoring to help
close the skills shortage gap.
- Protection of Critical Infrastructures relied upon by both
developed and developing countries○ An initiative is
needed to ensure the safety and reliability of the infrastructures
that provide critical services (e.g., energy, water,
transportation) to large populations. Such infrastructures use
technology called “Operational Technology (OT)” that is
increasingly targeted by nation states and criminals, since OT is
becoming more connected to traditional IT systems, and provides
adversaries with the ability to affect large populations or
economies without resorting to bullets and bombs.
- International norms of behavior in cyberspace○ Work
to establish basic principles of acceptable behavior in cyberspace
that stabilizes the environment, enables developed and developing
countries to pursue the benefits of digital transformation, and
create confidence in cyberspace’s future.○ This also includes
helping to create standards for independent testing of
cybersecurity products/solutions, to ease the decision making of
security solutions by purchasers.○ Fortinet has always
believed that third-party testing of security products and
solutions plays a critical role in thwarting cybercriminals and
enabling IT teams to evolve their security infrastructures
appropriately. Organizations need effective security solutions
that meet an evolving set of requirements, and third-party testing
is essential for guiding decisions in selecting and implementing
those tools most appropriate for their unique network demands and
business objectives.○ For organizations addressing digital
transformation, many of the current test methodologies being used
by third-party labs and testing centers provide critical insight
into emerging requirements and enable them to evaluate potential
solutions for features such as interoperability and the ability to
share and respond to threat intelligence as part of a coordinated
response.○ Faced with so many choices, businesses and
governments could more quickly, and with confidence, adopt
cybersecurity solutions that have a seal of approval from a
commercially acceptable and respected independent third-party
organization.
Additional Resources
- For more information about our participation in the World
Economic Forum and Centre for Cybersecurity, read our blog.
- Learn more about the WEF Centre for Cybersecurity.
- Read more about our Network Security Expert program, Network
Security Academy program or our FortiVets program.
- Read more about the Fortinet Security Fabric or the Third
Generation of Network Security.
- Read our blog about the latest Fortinet Global Threat Landscape
report or learn more about FortiGuard Labs and the FortiGuard
Security Services portfolio.
About FortinetFortinet (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
features 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 375,000 customers trust Fortinet to
protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com,
the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
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