Revolutionizing Endpoint Security with FortiEDR and a Unified Client

Securing distributed endpoints becomes increasingly challenging as organizations continue to embrace remote and hybrid work models. Growing complexity can lead to fragmented visibility, siloed management, and increasing burdens on overwhelmed staff. These challenges highlight the need for simplified solutions. Yet, many endpoint security solutions fall short in real-time threat intelligence, support for legacy operating systems and nontraditional endpoints like mobile and cloud, and integration with third-party tools already used by organizations.

Addressing these gaps requires a new generation of unified endpoint security that seamlessly integrates visibility, threat response, and network controls. FortiEDR delivers comprehensive security across hybrid environments, diverse operating systems, and devices. It protects on-premises and cloud environments while supporting various endpoint types to address modern and legacy security needs.

FortiEDR extends security to mobile devices, including the newer versions of Android and iOS, providing stronger protection for modern mobile devices. It also offers extensive legacy OS support, securing older yet still operational systems, such as Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003, and macOS El Capitan. With the broad coverage in FortiEDR, organizations can minimize vulnerabilities across traditional and evolving environments.

Most endpoint security products today operate in silos, with uncorrelated logs and alerts causing significant visibility gaps and management challenges for security operation teams. This fragmentation makes detecting and responding to threats difficult, increasing the risk of breaches. Fortinet’s recent innovation FortiEndpoint unifies FortiEDR endpoint security and FortiClient network security capabilities to deliver a more cohesive and automated defense against modern threats. By leveraging AI-driven threat detection, zero-trust network access (ZTNA), and deep integration across the Fortinet Security Fabric, Fortinet strengthens endpoint security and streamlines security operations, reducing complexity for IT teams.

FortiEndpoint Unified Client

Fortinet has developed FortiEndpoint, a unified client that integrates the capabilities of FortiClient and FortiEDR. This unified client provides secure connectivity, endpoint security, advanced threat detection, and response.

FortiEndpoint integrates key capabilities ZTNA, endpoint protection platform (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), and extended detection and response (XDR) to deliver secure connectivity, advanced threat detection, and automated response into a single solution. This powerful, streamlined client gives IT and security teams enhanced visibility and control over their extended network environments.

FortiEndpoint goes beyond conventional endpoint protection by offering a comprehensive solution that is integrated into your broader security ecosystem. It covers all four critical functions of endpoint protection:

• Connect: Provide secure and controlled access to all applications through VPN, ZTNA, and cloud access security broker (CASB)
• Prevent: Fortify endpoints against known attacks and attack surface reduction technologies
• Protect: Defend against the most advanced attacks through behavior-based and AI-enabled dynamic protections
• Respond: Automate or use AI-guided remediation steps to hunt for and repair the damage caused by attacks across the Fortinet Security Fabric and third-party tools

FortiRecon Integration Improves Threat Visibility and Management

The FortiEDR integration with FortiRecon enhances security operations by providing comprehensive visibility into the external attack surface. With FortiRecon, security analysts can prioritize alerts and incidents based on critical risk factors, such as vulnerability severity, relevance of threat intelligence feeds, and affected endpoint impact.

FortiGuard Threat Research teams provide organization-specific and expertly curated adversary-centric intelligence, offering deep insights into dark web activity, open-source intelligence, and technical threat indicators. This enhancement empowers administrators to proactively assess risks, accelerate incident response, gain deeper threat actor insights, and strengthen asset protection, ensuring security efforts focus on the most significant threats to the organization.

Protect All Your Endpoints Everywhere

FortiEDR provides endpoint security to help organizations stay one step ahead of cyberthreats. It simplifies deployment, strengthens protection, enhances visibility, and provides the agility and resilience to protect your workforce on-premises and in the cloud.

By leveraging AI-driven threat detection, ZTNA, and deep integration across the Fortinet Security Fabric, Fortinet strengthens endpoint security and streamlines security operations, reducing complexity for IT teams. This holistic strategy ensures that organizations can effectively protect their endpoints and stay ahead of the dynamic threat landscape.

Learn more about the Fortinet Unified Agent, FortiEndpoint.