Fortinet Surpasses 1 Million Network Security Expert (NSE)

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet
“Fortinet has a long history of working to close the cyber skills gap, and we are proud to share we recently hit a significant milestone by achieving more than 1 million Network Security Expert (NSE) certifications issued to date. Continued learning through training and certifications is a critical way to stay ahead of cyber adversaries who are constantly evolving their attack strategies and methods. This is why Fortinet’s Training Institute is dedicated to offering award-winning cyber training and certifications for security professionals to upskill and advance their knowledge or for those considering reskilling. At the same time, for organizations looking to build cyber awareness in their employees and strengthen their security posture, the Fortinet Training Institute offers its Security Awareness and Training service.”

News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a world chief in broad, built-in and automatic cybersecurity options, in the present day introduced it has issued greater than 1 million Network Security Expert (NSE) certifications thus far, additional advancing its dedication to shut the cybersecurity expertise hole. Adding to this milestone, Fortinet continues to increase the worldwide impression of its coaching and certification applications with the addition of latest programs in precedence cybersecurity areas, new coaching companions, and by increasing entry to cyber coaching to empower untapped expertise. Fortinet additionally continues to assist organizations construct a cyber-aware workforce by way of its current Security Awareness and Training Service and thru a latest initiative tied to the 2022 White House National Cyber Workforce and Education Summit, by offering a tailor-made model of the service out there for Okay-12 faculty districts within the United States freed from cost.

Advancing Skill Sets in Cybersecurity Professionals to Keep Up with Threats
With greater than 80% of breaches being attributed to a scarcity of cyber expertise in line with a world 2022 Fortinet report, the cybersecurity expertise hole continues to be a top-of-mind concern for organizations. In an effort to assist shut the cyber expertise hole, Fortinet – by way of its Training Advancement Agenda (TAA) and Fortinet Training Institute initiatives – is concentrated on upskilling safety professionals to remain forward of threats with the next efforts:

• Validating Skills and Experience with NSE Certifications: As a part of Fortinet’s progress to shut the talents hole, the Fortinet Training Institute achieved the milestone of over 1 million NSE certifications issued thus far. The eight-level coaching and certification program is designed to supply technical professionals with impartial validation of their safety and networking expertise in addition to work expertise. Fortinet’s 2022 Global Skills Gap report revealed that 95% of leaders imagine technology-focused certifications positively impression their position and their workforce, whereas 81% of leaders desire to rent individuals with certifications. The Fortinet Training Institute goals to supply professionals the chance not solely to realize expertise to keep at bay cyber threats, but additionally profession progress alternatives, as leaders worth certifications. In addition, the NSE coaching curriculum is definitely accessible to empower entry to studying and is obtainable in instructor-led, digital instructor-led, and free self-paced coaching codecs.
• Developing Courses in Key Cybersecurity Areas Across all Industries: The Fortinet Training Institute is constantly updating its coaching with content material that’s related and dynamic for the problems and challenges cyber professionals face in the present day. For instance, the OT Security curriculum, as a part of NSE degree 7, supplies a stable understanding of how one can design, implement and function an OT safety resolution for crucial infrastructures. Other subject areas the place the Fortinet Training Institute has expanded its curriculum embrace Zero Trust Network Access and Secure SD-WAN, amongst others. Additionally, Fortinet presents low-cost labs to additional advance talent units for anybody taking technical, superior or skilled degree coaching.
• Leveraging Threat Intelligence from FortiGuard Labs in Curriculum: The Fortinet Training Institute curriculum is developed by Fortinet’s world-class trainers and curriculum builders with an in-depth data of industry-leading expertise and the evolving menace panorama. The coaching curriculum is augmented with menace intelligence from FortiGuard Labs, a world analysis workforce comprised of skilled menace hunters, researchers, analysts, engineers, and information scientists. In addition, the curriculum is designed to evolve based mostly on the most recent menace intelligence from FortiGuard Labs, guaranteeing that anybody taking coaching or pursuing certifications obtains essentially the most related expertise and data.
• Offering Opportunities for Professionals to Upskill Through Fortinet’s Global Authorized Training Centers: Fortinet Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) are a community of accredited coaching organizations in additional than 130 international locations and territories world wide, instructing in 26 totally different languages. ATCs ship the Fortinet Training Institute’s cybersecurity coaching in native languages. New ATCs which have not too long ago joined this system, lengthen the provision of Fortinet’s coaching to safety professionals world wide, together with: Exclusive Networks (USA), Wavelink (Australia), HRP (Hungary), and DACAS (The Caribbean).

Expanding Access to Cyber Training and Empowering Untapped Talent
Fortinet is rising entry to its cybersecurity coaching in order that extra individuals, no matter their academic background, present profession or life expertise, can entry cyber programs and assist kickstart a profession in cybersecurity. Fortinet can be empowering untapped expertise swimming pools, together with ladies, college students, veterans and extra, to reskill or increase their expertise for a profession in cyber, serving to to deal with the {industry} expertise scarcity. As a part of this focus, Fortinet made a commitment in September of 2021 to coach 1 million individuals in cybersecurity over 5 years between 2022-2026 and is on monitor to fulfill this by way of numerous initiatives, together with:

• Enhancing organizations’ cybersecurity consciousness coaching for all workers with the Security Awareness and Training Service: Any firm can simply deploy the Fortinet Training Institute’s Security Awareness and Training Service to additional defend their safety posture by advancing all their workers’ cyber talent units and data. This service introduced earlier this yr is a SaaS-based providing that delivers well timed consciousness coaching on in the present day’s cybersecurity threats. It helps IT, safety, and compliance leaders construct a cyber-aware tradition the place workers acknowledge and keep away from falling sufferer to cyberattacks.
• Offering a Free Security Awareness and Training Service for Okay-12 School Districts within the U.S.: Fortinet announced that it has made its Security Awareness and Training Service out there to Okay-12 faculty districts throughout the United States freed from value, making the coaching out there to roughly 8 million college and workers. Educational establishments have seen a rise in deliver your personal units (BYOD) making faculties and college students extra weak to cyber threats as a result of increasing assault floor and, thus, should guarantee they’re securing their crucial digital belongings and delicate data. With the tailor-made service, faculty districts can implement coaching for workers and college to increase their cyber data and expertise, in order that they don’t fall sufferer to widespread menace strategies as a part of the general faculty cybersecurity methods.
• Expanding Academic Partner and Education Outreach Programs Partnerships: With greater than 470 Authorized Academic Partners worldwide throughout greater than 90 international locations and territories, the Fortinet Training Institute continues to work with schooling establishments globally to assist put together the cyber workforce of the long run. Among the brand new establishments worldwide which have joined the Academic Partner Program are: Universidad Panamericana (UP) in Mexico,Technological University of Queretaro (UTEQ) in Mexico, KLE Tech University in India, South Regional TAFE in Australia, Università of Tor Vergata of Roma in Italy, Cybersecurity Business School in France, UIB – Universitat de les Illes Balears in Spain, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda in Portugal, University West – Högskolan Väst in Sweden, South Texas College within the United States and extra. As Authorized Academic Partners, these establishments are utilizing Fortinet’s award-winning technical coaching of their lecture rooms and offering college students with useful {industry} certifications so as to add to their resumes upon commencement.

  Similarly, the Education Outreach Program is increasing Fortinet’s attain by partnering with extra organizations that symbolize historically underrepresented teams within the high-tech sector resembling ladies, veterans, economically deprived and extra. New outreach companions embrace Cerco IT and National Economic Education Trust (NEET).

Supporting Quotes

“The number of skilled cybersecurity professionals is not growing fast enough to fill the nearly 3 million unfilled cybersecurity positions worldwide. To help solve this critical issue, I co-founded the Cybersecurity Business School in France, which is delivering two programs: a Bachelor of Cybersecurity Specialist and a Master of Cybersecurity Manager. A key part of our program is the Fortinet Training Institute’s Network Security Expert (NSE) training and certifications developed by industry experts, which we are leveraging to incorporate real-world teachings about critical security areas. Implementing Fortinet’s training in our classes and Fortinet security devices in our SOC, IT & OT simulation platform is allowing us to provide a robust curriculum to our students and to further develop the cybersecurity workforce of the future.”        
–Thomas Guilloux, Co-Founder and Technical & Industrial Director on the Cybersecurity Business School in France

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– Joaquim Brigas, President on the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda

“Today’s organizations need professionals knowledgeable on topics related to digital security so that, with the advancement of technology, they know how to mitigate the growing number of threats and vulnerabilities. We have the responsibility to prepare our students in Mexico to take on the task of preventing cyberattacks to protect important information and organizations. Our collaboration with Fortinet is a testament of this commitment. With this agreement, the Universidad Panamericana (UP) further provides high-level training in IT and reiterates its commitment to continue preparing its students for digital transformation in areas related to cybersecurity”.
– Juan Carlos García, director of Digital Transformation on the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico

“To grant our candidates (ex-military or otherwise) access to the NSE training curriculum is a huge step forward in creating highly skilled IT professionals and enables us to further address the shortfall in the UK’s cybersecurity talent pool. We are thrilled to collaborate with the global leader in network security and are excited to be working with such a strong, internationally recognised training programme focused on closing the cyber skills gap.”
– Chris Barlow, MD of Cerco IT

“To address the skills gaps and provide training for skills that are in high demand, NEET has identified a need for training the unemployed youth in Forth Industrial Revolutions (4IR) skills and paying immediate attention to addressing cybersecurity skills gaps, which will be carried out by NEET 4IR Academy. Fortinet, as a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, aligns quite perfectly as a strategic partner to help us achieve our organizational mission and vision in a manner that is both meaningful and impactful to our communities.”
– Thomas Sithole, Chairman at National Economic Education Trust (NEET)

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About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes attainable a digital world that we will all the time belief by way of its mission to guard individuals, units, and information all over the place. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service suppliers, and authorities organizations select Fortinet to securely speed up their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, built-in, and automatic protections throughout your complete digital assault floor, securing crucial units, information, purposes, and connections from the info heart to the cloud to the house workplace. Ranking #1 in essentially the most safety home equipment shipped worldwide, greater than 595,000 prospects belief Fortinet to guard their companies. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), supplies one of many largest and broadest coaching applications within the {industry} to make cyber coaching and new profession alternatives out there to everybody. Learn extra at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.

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