Fortinet has been recognized as an Overall and Market front-running leader in the 2024 KuppingerCole XDR Leadership Compass report. This recognition underscores our unwavering commitment to providing unified detection and response solutions across multiple areas, such as endpoints, networks, and clouds.

The KuppingerCole report highlights Fortinet's comprehensive approach to extended detection and response (XDR), which integrates endpoint detection and response (EDR), network detection and response (NDR), and cloud security capabilities into a single, cohesive platform. FortiXDR stands out for its deep interoperability with third-party tools, advanced automation, and AI-driven threat detection. These capabilities position Fortinet as a leader in addressing the challenges of today's hybrid IT environments while enabling streamlined operations and comprehensive protection.

What Is XDR and Why Does It Matter?

XDR is revolutionizing cybersecurity by correlating alerts from multiple security tools through a unified platform to drive faster detection and remediation. The report's example of integrating EDR, NDR, and cloud security, shows a way XDR simplifies operations, eliminates blind spots, and enhances detection and response capabilities.

Fortinet's XDR solution takes this a step further by unifying security across additional layers, such as email and identity, for a truly holistic approach. Such comprehensive integration enables organizations to address key challenges like alert fatigue, siloed tools, and the inability to detect advanced threats such as fileless malware or multi-stage ransomware attacks.

This year's KuppingerCole XDR Leadership Compass report underscores the importance of XDR in today's cybersecurity landscape, particularly for detecting early stage threats designed to evade traditional tools. By leveraging AI/ML analytics and cloud-first deployment, XDR empowers security teams to gain better visibility, improve efficiency, and reduce costs-all critical for protecting hybrid and cloud-first environments.

Key Trends Driving XDR Adoption

Several key market trends highlight the growing demand for XDR solutions:

1. Ransomware prevention: Ransomware remains a top threat, often using fileless malware, multi-stage attacks, or compromised credentials to bypass traditional endpoint defenses. The unified approach of XDR makes it easier to detect and mitigate these early-stage attacks.
2. Integrated Architectures: The centralized approach of responding to alerts and closing gaps in tools like EDR, NDR, or others, like cloud security tools, from an XDR platform closes observability gaps and enhances response capabilities.
3. Cloud-first technologies: The cloud-based management and scalability of XDR are ideal for hybrid IT environments and remote workforce security.
4. Automation and AI: XDR leverages ML and behavioral analytics to automate detection and response, reducing SOC workloads and improving response times.
5. Advanced threat detection: Unified platforms like XDR make it easier to detect anomalies and malicious activity across diverse environments, addressing complex threats that traditional tools often miss.

FortiXDR: The Leader in Unified Detection and Response

Comprehensive Integration

FortiXDR delivers native integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric and interoperability with third-party solutions. This design ensures that organizations can consolidate their security stack without sacrificing functionality. FortiXDR also taps into existing data lakes, eliminating the need for data replication to correlate events more accurately and efficiently across endpoints, networks, and clouds.

Advanced Threat Detection

A key advantage of FortiXDR is its kernel-based architecture, which provides deeper visibility into system processes and memory activity. At the same time, its AI-driven analytics can detect sophisticated threats like fileless malware and credential-based attacks. This design enables more precise threat detection and response, making FortiXDR resistant to evasion techniques. Additionally, its architecture is lightweight, consuming less than 1% of CPU resources in most cases, and ensures predictive costs for efficient, scalable operations.

Automation and Efficiency

By reducing alerts by up to 77%, FortiXDR significantly alleviates alert fatigue, allowing your SOC team to focus on high-priority incidents. Its AI-driven automated workflows streamline response processes, from segmenting and isolating devices, to updating phishing blocklists, to updating ZTNA device tags, to rolling back ransomware encryption with minimal disruption. These capabilities enhance operational efficiency, making FortiXDR a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity strategies.

Why Fortinet is the Trusted Choice

Addressing real-world challenges

FortiXDR directly addresses critical pain points such as high alert volumes, limited visibility, and the complexity of managing hybrid environments. Fortinet provides unparalleled visibility and protection while simplifying security operations by unifying detection and response across endpoints, networks, and clouds.

Cost-effective for organizations from all verticals

Since FortiXDR is a multi-data lake solution that doesn't require replication, it offers a cost-effective solution that consolidates security tools and reduces operational overhead that is easy to budget. Its streamlined approach provides enterprise-grade capabilities without the complexity of managing separate tools or multiple vendor contracts. Its design is suited for all verticals, is HIPAA compliant, is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, and has ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018 certifications.

A leader in AI-driven security

KuppingerCole's recognition of Fortinet in AI-powered detection and response reflects our strategic focus on innovation. FortiXDR, integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric ensures that organizations can secure their digital transformation journeys while improving SOC efficiency and reducing costs.

Explore Fortinet's Industry-Leading XDR Solution

Fortinet's front-running leadership position in the Overall and Market categories of the 2024 KuppingerCole XDR Leadership Compass reaffirms our commitment to delivering the most advanced, budget-friendly, and customer-focused security solutions. FortiXDR enables you to streamline your operations, detect advanced threats earlier, and reduce SOC workloads while confidently navigating today's complex cybersecurity landscape.

Downloadthe KuppingerCole XDR Leadership Compass or schedule a demo today to see how Fortinet can help you transform your security operations.