Fortinet has been named a leader in the 2024 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Network Detection and Response (NDR) and recognized for its leadership across product, innovation, and market presence. Fortinet NDR solutions provide security teams with AI-driven intelligence, correlation, and the detection of anomalous and malicious activity throughout complex hybrid networks, including air-gapped, containerized, and cloud environments. 

As the premier analyst review of the NDR market, the 2024 KuppingerCole report offers a deep overview of the NDR market and significant trends, including predicting growth throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions. It also provides a detailed comparison of 14 leading NDR offerings to help readers choose the solution that best fits their organization's needs.

Fortinet NDR solutions scored high among "Functionality" and "Usability" ratings across the report, while KuppingerCole noted their strengths as:

1. Strong response capabilities with comprehensive out-of-the-box playbook support
2. Excellent integration capabilities with third-party solutions
3. Patented artificial neural networks (ANN) provide insights for sophisticated attacks

Fortinet NDR Solutions

With two flexible deployment options-FortiNDR for air-gapped environments and SaaS-based FortiNDR Cloud-Fortinet gives security teams the tools they need to detect, prioritize, investigate, hunt for, and respond to attacks across the network without the need for endpoint agents.

With this agentless visibility, Fortinet NDR solutions automatically identify anomalous and malicious behavior, provide risk scores, and share relevant threat intelligence to assist security teams in prioritizing response efforts. 

Identifying Attacks Earlier in the Attack Life Cycle

As attackers and threats become more sophisticated, security teams need a means to analyze the full scope of network traffic in real time, enabling them to detect anomalous and malicious attacker activity automatically. FortiNDR Cloud and FortiNDR leverage AI, ML, and behavioral and human analysis to inspect network traffic, allowing them to find post-breach evidence of attacker behavior earlier in the attack lifecycle. FortiNDR Cloud also retains network metadata for 365 days to enable retroactive hunting and analysis so analysts can hunt for threats as new IoCs arise.

Helping Overburdened SOC Teams

The combination of AI/ML and human expertise in Fortinet NDR empowers SOC teams to analyze an ever-increasing volume of network data. With the FortiNDR Cloud service, security analysts can access on-demand Technical Success Managers (TSMs) that act as trusted advisors, sharing findings, tuning configurations, and helping organizations optimize their NDR deployments.

FortiNDR customers can also use the Virtual Security Analyst to analyze and detect malicious files and network anomalies.

Integrated Network Detection and Response

FortiNDR Cloud and FortiNDR are integrated across the Fortinet Security Fabric as well as third-party SOAR, SIEM, EDR, and XDR products to streamline your security teams' ability to orchestrate response capability across multiple platforms. FortiNDR Cloud ingests endpoint data from FortiEDR to enrich FortiNDR Cloud findings and can initiate IP blocking through integration with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls.

Spotting evidence of attacker behavior early in the attack cycle enables a more effective response. Fortinet NDR solutions address attacker behavior across the full breadth of the MITRE ATT&CK life cycle, from the earliest stage of reconnaissance and weaponization all the way through to the cybercriminal's ultimate objective.

To learn more about network detection and response solutions, FortiNDR and FortiNDR Cloud, download the completeKuppingerCole reporttoday.