Fortinet has announced a global alliance with AlterPoint, a network management software company, to help enterprises and managed security service providers deploy large-scale Fortinet installations while ensuring high levels of reliability and manageability.

Through the partnership, it is intended that Fortinet’s FortiGate multi-threat security platform will be integrated with NetworkAuthority, AlterPoint’s network automation, change and configuration management solution. This integrated approach enables customers to accelerate and simplify the management of Fortinet device implementations in multi-vendor environments with more than 500 networking components. Fortinet and AlterPoint have recently completed extensive certification and testing to ensure solution interoperability.

As part of this partnership, AlterPoint becomes a member of Fortinet’s Global Alliance Program, which is an ecosystem of network equipment manufacturers, consultancy firms, service providers, global system integrators and other technology firms that complement and extend Fortinet’s UTM solutions for protecting customers against current and future threats. With its strong presence in the Americas and Asian network management markets, AlterPoint plays a key role in supporting Fortinet’s goals for worldwide coverage and expansion.

Fortinet provides ASIC-accelerated security appliances, which are used by enterprises and service providers to enhance and consolidate their security needs while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection – including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, Web filtering, spyware prevention and anti-spam – designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Delivered via its flagship FortiGate family of appliances, Fortinet provides a flexible and extensible platform of security applications and services that enable customers to deploy and centrally manage the same comprehensive level of protection at remote locations as they have for headquarters and data center environments.