The Technical Validation by TechTarget's ESG examines the Fortinet FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) Service on AWS, highlighting its ability to enforce network security with consistent policies in a cloud-based network, eliminating the need for deploying and managing individual firewalls across an organization's public cloud infrastructure. The evaluation focuses on how this product can assist organizations in maintaining network security efficiently and effectively.

The shift to cloud-based infrastructure presents challenges in maintaining configurations, securing data, and managing identities, with attackers leveraging traditional tactics to target cloud environments. Despite debates on the relevance of network security in a cloud-first world, firewalls remain a crucial component for protecting hybrid cloud environments, with security teams needing a balance between third-party tools' established security and cloud service providers' ease of deployment and management.

With the majority of workloads now in public clouds, organizations need a network security solution that addresses the challenges of decentralized networks and provides consistent protection and visibility. Cloud-first companies seek simplified security operations that integrate with native cloud services to combat zero-day threats and enable essential business outcomes.