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The network security vendor says it will accelerate its shift to faster-growing areas, such as SASE, as the company’s financial results disappointed investors for the second quarter in a row.

Fortinet faced disappointment from investors for the second quarter in a row after releasing its latest financial results Thursday, as executives pointed to weaker-than-expected sales in firewalls.

The network security vendor saw its stock price plummet 17.5 percent in after-hours trading Thursday, dropping to $47.51 a share.

[Related: Fortinet Makes Cuts To Sales, Channel, Business Development Groups]

Amid the quarterly report, Fortinet said it will be shifting more of its focus to faster-growing areas, such as SASE (secure access service edge) and security operations tools. SASE now represents 20 percent of Fortinet’s business while SecOps tools now make up 10 percent.

However, the picture has dimmed for Fortinet’s secure networking business, which accounts for remaining 70 percent of the company’s business and includes its FortiGate next-generation firewalls. The growth opportunity in firewalls and other security networking technologies is less promising than previously thought, executives said during the company’s quarterly call with analysts Thursday.

Fortinet is encountering a “slowdown in secure networking market growth,” which has led product revenue to fall below expectations, Co-Founder and CEO Ken Xie said during the call.

Additionally, “we anticipate limited near-term growth in [the] secure networking market,” Xie said.

Total Fortinet revenue for the third quarter, ended Sept. 30, rose 16 percent year over year to $1.33 billion, below the analyst consensus estimate of $1.35 billion.

Product revenue dropped 0.6 percent to $465.9 million during Fortinet’s Q3 from the same period a year earlier.

The company’s revenue outlook for the fourth quarter also came in below Wall Street expectations.

“We continue to see increased deal scrutiny and longer sales cycles, which is constraining our near-term results,” Fortinet CFO Keith Jensen said during the call with analysts.

The elongated sales cycles had been a main culprit in Fortinet’s prior quarterly results, which similarly prompted a plunge in the company’s stock price. Following the release of Fortinet’s second-quarter results on Aug. 3, shares in the company had fallen 25 percent by the end of the following day.

At the time, investors also punished competitor Palo Alto Networks, sending its stock price down 8 percent in the wake of Fortinet’s Q2 report in early August. Shares in Palo Alto Networks were down 4 percent, to $240.35, in after-hours trading Thursday, following the release of Fortinet’s Q3 results.

During Fortinet’s call with analysts Thursday, executives sought to demonstrate that its investments in SASE and SecOps will more than compensate for the slowdown in sales of firewalls down the road. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company issued a separate announcement Thursday to highlight how it is “sharpening its business focus to prioritize high-growth, differentiated markets.”

The SASE market is forecast to grow 20 percent a year over the next four years, while the SecOps market is expected to grow 14 percent a year, the company said in the news release.

In Fortinet’s third quarter results, service revenue grew nearly 28 percent, year over year, to reach $868.7 million, the company reported.

Fortinet is well-positioned to capitalize on major near-term market opportunities, Jensen said during the call, through “shifting our R&D and go-to-market investments to the faster-growing SASE and SecOps markets.”

As part of this shift, Fortinet expects to make significant investments into working with channel partners, he said.

“I think there’s another opportunity right now, immediately in front of us, in terms of how do we continue to support our channel partners — be they distributors or be their resellers — and make sure that we’re getting the right level of mindshare from them,” Jensen said. “So I would suspect there’ll be some investments in that part of the business as we go forward.”

• Scalable test platform generates both legitimate and malicious traffic at multi-terabit, hyperscale volumes, realistically emulating DDoS attack mitigation of carrier-grade network loads
• Facilitates the transition to 400GE and reduces costs by offering compatibility with existing infrastructure using 8x400GE test ports with fanout support to 200/100/50/40/25/10GE
• Single pane of glass management simplifies test configuration and system upgrades, reducing overall test time and system maintenance

SANTA ROSA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$KEYS #APSM8400—Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) announces that Fortinet chose the Keysight APS-M8400 network cybersecurity test platform to validate the hyperscale distributed denial of service (DDoS) defense capabilities and carrier-grade performance of its FortiGate 4800F next generation firewall (NGFW). The APS-M8400 is the industry’s first and highest density 8-port 400GE Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) network security test platform.

Carrier networks, data center operators and service providers are facing exponential growth in cyber-attacks, including DDoS attacks, which have increased by 40% in the last 6 months. The scope and scale of these DDoS attacks are also increasing, as evidenced by the recent, record-breaking Rapid Reset attack which peaked at 398 million requests per second (RPS).

Fortinet developed the FortiGate 4800F NGFW, which is powered by 16 NP7 network processors, to help carriers, data center operators, and service providers protect their critical network infrastructure and services from hyperscale DDoS attacks and other cybersecurity threats while continuing to process multi-terabit volumes of legitimate customer traffic driven by the growing adoption of 400GE. Needing an application and security test solution powerful enough to validate the carrier-grade performance and security capabilities of the FortiGate 4800F NGFW prior to deploying in a live customer network, Fortinet turned to Keysight’s APS-M8400.

Using the Keysight APS-M8400, Fortinet validated the cybersecurity capabilities of the FortiGate 4800F NGFW using:

• Carrier-Grade Traffic Generation – The APS-M8400 platform generated 3 Tbps of legitimate and malicious traffic in a single test, validating the hyperscale firewall protection offered by the FortiGate 4800F, which successfully defended against an 800 Gbps layer 2-3 DDoS attack while continuing to deliver 2.2 Tbps of legitimate layer 4-7 traffic, without taxing CPU, memory usage, or system responsiveness.
• Port Density and Flexibility – Fortinet used all of the APS-M8400’s 8x400GE QSFD-DD interfaces to send traffic across all available 400GE test ports on the FortiGate 4800F. Each of the APS-M8400’s 8x400GE QSFD-DD interfaces can fan out to 200/100/50/40/25/10GE, offering Fortinet the flexibility to test multiple port configurations like the 12x200GE/100GE/40GE and up to 12x50GE/25GE/10GE test ports supported by the FortiGate 4800F.
• Hyperscale Throughput and Scalability – The APS-M8400’s extensible aggregation of compute node resources and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) resources allowed Fortinet to scale up the test bed to generate the 3 Tbps of traffic needed to effectively test the FortiGate 4800F. The APS-M8400 features a pay-as-you-grow model, enabling users to scale in multi-chassis mode to generate more than 12 Tbps of layer 4-7 traffic, 3.2 Tbps of layer 2-3 traffic, 9.6 Tbps of Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic, 20 billion concurrent connections, and 220 million connections per second of legitimate and malicious test traffic in a single test.
• Ease of Management – APS-M8400’s intuitive, single pane of glass management allowed Fortinet to simply and easily configure the multiple compute node and FPGA resources required to run a hyperscale, multi terabit test. This reduced their overall test time and system maintenance, freeing up users to focus on other critical efforts.

John Maddison, Executive Vice President of Products and Chief Marketing Officer, Fortinet, said: “The FortiGate 4800F is the industry’s fastest compact hyperscale firewall, offering carrier-grade performance and scalability to safeguard datacenters and service providers as cyberattacks continue to accelerate at an unprecedented pace. Powered by 16 of Fortinet’s custom built seventh-generation network processors, this NGFW delivers the necessary 400GE port density, multi-terabit application throughput, and session scalability to protect customers against DDoS attacks. This is validated by Keysight’s innovative APS-M8400 8x400GE cybersecurity test platform, proving that the FortiGate 4800F delivers the hyperscale performance and real-time threat protection our customers expect.”

Ram Periakaruppan, Vice President and General Manager, Keysight Network Test and Security Solutions, said: “Cybersecurity threats like DDoS attacks are continually increasing in scope, scale, and impact on their potential victims. It is vital that carriers, service providers and data centers protect their critical infrastructure from these attacks to continue serving the hyperscale volumes of legitime traffic that continue to grow at a rapid pace. Keysight’s APS-8400 helps network equipment manufacturers like Fortinet validate that their solutions are up to the task, delivering carrier-grade application and cybersecurity test loads in a flexible, 8x400GE solution that can grow with their changing needs.

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At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500 company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and www.keysight.com.

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• Scalable test platform generates both legitimate and malicious traffic at multi-terabit, hyperscale volumes, realistically emulating DDoS attack mitigation of carrier-grade network loads
• Facilitates the transition to 400GE and reduces costs by offering compatibility with existing infrastructure using 8x400GE test ports with fanout support to 200/100/50/40/25/10GE
• Single pane of glass management simplifies test configuration and system upgrades, reducing overall test time and system maintenance

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) announces that Fortinet chose the Keysight APS-M8400 network cybersecurity test platform to validate the hyperscale distributed denial of service (DDoS) defense capabilities and carrier-grade performance of its FortiGate 4800F next generation firewall (NGFW). The APS-M8400 is the industry’s first and highest density 8-port 400GE Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) network security test platform.

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The Keysight APS-M8400, the industry’s first and highest density 8-port 400GE Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density network security test platform is used to validate the hyperscale distributed denial of service defense capabilities and carrier-grade performance of the FortiGate 4800F next generation firewall. (Photo: Business Wire)

Carrier networks, data center operators and service providers are facing exponential growth in cyber-attacks, including DDoS attacks, which have increased by 40% in the last 6 months. The scope and scale of these DDoS attacks are also increasing, as evidenced by the recent, record-breaking Rapid Reset attack which peaked at 398 million requests per second (RPS).

Fortinet developed the FortiGate 4800F NGFW, which is powered by 16 NP7 network processors, to help carriers, data center operators, and service providers protect their critical network infrastructure and services from hyperscale DDoS attacks and other cybersecurity threats while continuing to process multi-terabit volumes of legitimate customer traffic driven by the growing adoption of 400GE. Needing an application and security test solution powerful enough to validate the carrier-grade performance and security capabilities of the FortiGate 4800F NGFW prior to deploying in a live customer network, Fortinet turned to Keysight’s APS-M8400.

Using the Keysight APS-M8400, Fortinet validated the cybersecurity capabilities of the FortiGate 4800F NGFW using:

• Carrier-Grade Traffic Generation –The APS-M8400 platform generated 3 Tbps of legitimate and malicious traffic in a single test, validating the hyperscale firewall protection offered by the FortiGate 4800F, which successfully defended against an 800 Gbps layer 2-3 DDoS attack while continuing to deliver 2.2 Tbps of legitimate layer 4-7 traffic, without taxing CPU, memory usage, or system responsiveness.
• Port Density and Flexibility – Fortinet used all of the APS-M8400’s 8x400GE QSFD-DD interfaces to send traffic across all available 400GE test ports on the FortiGate 4800F. Each of the APS-M8400’s 8x400GE QSFD-DD interfaces can fan out to 200/100/50/40/25/10GE, offering Fortinet the flexibility to test multiple port configurations like the 12x200GE/100GE/40GE and up to 12x50GE/25GE/10GE test ports supported by the FortiGate 4800F.
• Hyperscale Throughput and Scalability – The APS-M8400’s extensible aggregation of compute node resources and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) resources allowed Fortinet to scale up the test bed to generate the 3 Tbps of traffic needed to effectively test the FortiGate 4800F. The APS-M8400 features a pay-as-you-grow model, enabling users to scale in multi-chassis mode to generate more than 12 Tbps of layer 4-7 traffic, 3.2 Tbps of layer 2-3 traffic, 9.6 Tbps of Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic, 20 billion concurrent connections, and 220 million connections per second of legitimate and malicious test traffic in a single test.
• Ease of Management – APS-M8400’s intuitive, single pane of glass management allowed Fortinet to simply and easily configure the multiple compute node and FPGA resources required to run a hyperscale, multi terabit test. This reduced their overall test time and system maintenance, freeing up users to focus on other critical efforts.

John Maddison, Executive Vice President of Products and Chief Marketing Officer, Fortinet, said: “The FortiGate 4800F is the industry’s fastest compact hyperscale firewall, offering carrier-grade performance and scalability to safeguard datacenters and service providers as cyberattacks continue to accelerate at an unprecedented pace. Powered by 16 of Fortinet’s custom built seventh-generation network processors, this NGFW delivers the necessary 400GE port density, multi-terabit application throughput, and session scalability to protect customers against DDoS attacks. This is validated by Keysight's innovative APS-M8400 8x400GE cybersecurity test platform, proving that the FortiGate 4800F delivers the hyperscale performance and real-time threat protection our customers expect.”

Ram Periakaruppan, Vice President and General Manager, Keysight Network Test and Security Solutions, said: “Cybersecurity threats like DDoS attacks are continually increasing in scope, scale, and impact on their potential victims. It is vital that carriers, service providers and data centers protect their critical infrastructure from these attacks to continue serving the hyperscale volumes of legitime traffic that continue to grow at a rapid pace. Keysight's APS-8400 helps network equipment manufacturers like Fortinet validate that their solutions are up to the task, delivering carrier-grade application and cybersecurity test loads in a flexible, 8x400GE solution that can grow with their changing needs.

Resources

About Keysight Technologies

At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500 company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and www.keysight.com.

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