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Fortinet Expands FortiGate G Series with 1200G and FortiSASE Outpost to Advance Firewall and SASE Convergence

Ryan Borjes

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, has announced the FortiGate 1200G series, the newest addition to the FortiGate G series with FortiSASE Outpost, which brings cloud-delivered security services into customer-controlled environments. The solution combines high-performance threat protection, modern connectivity, hardware-rooted platform security, and cloud-delivered security capabilities. As a result, it gives organizations the flexibility to enforce security where it makes the most business sense. Whether on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud, security teams can maintain consistent protection, high performance, and simplified operations across hybrid environments.

Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of Fortinet, said, “The convergence of firewall and SASE technologies is creating a new SASE firewall market built for the realities of today’s hybrid world. Fortinet anticipated this shift by building FortiGate and FortiSASE on FortiOS and investing in proprietary application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology that delivers security and performance at scale from day one. The FortiGate 1200G with FortiSASE Outpost capability advances this vision by combining local enforcement and cloud-delivered security to address customers’ evolving sovereignty, performance, and AI infrastructure requirements.”

FortiGate 1200G Series: High-Performance Security Built for AI Infrastructure

AI adoption, encrypted traffic, and hybrid infrastructure are reshaping enterprise networks. As a result, organizations need to inspect growing traffic volumes without introducing performance bottlenecks. They also need the flexibility to determine where security enforcement occurs based on application performance, data sovereignty, compliance, and operational requirements.

Fortinet’s latest FortiASIC architecture powers the FortiGate 1200G series. It accelerates networking and security processing to deliver predictable, low-latency protection for demanding enterprise and data center environments. Flexible 10G, 25G, and 100G connectivity also helps organizations modernize their infrastructures. Meanwhile, hardware-rooted protections strengthen the integrity and resilience of the FortiGate 1200G.

Key benefits of the FortiGate 1200G include:

  • Keeping applications fast: Predictable low-latency inspection powered by FortiASIC enables organizations to secure encrypted and AI-driven traffic without sacrificing application performance.
  • Modernizing with room to grow: Flexible connectivity supports campus, data center, and hybrid environments while providing headroom for future AI-driven growth.
  • Increasing operational resilience: Hardware-rooted protections, secure credential storage, and built-in redundancy strengthen platform integrity and improve business continuity.
  • Reducing operational complexity: FortiOS consolidates networking and security while enabling consistent policy management across appliances and cloud-delivered services.

When configured as a FortiSASE Outpost, the FortiGate 1200G can operate as a high-performance local SASE point-of-presence (POP), giving organizations another option for where security inspection and enforcement occur.

FortiGate 1200G

Fortinet measured threat protection performance with firewall, IPS, application control and malware protection, and logging enabled. Competitive solution numbers come from publicly available sources, so variations in testing methodologies and performance metrics may exist across vendors. Fortinet took all power consumption values from external data sheets and hardware system guides using maximum power consumption.

Analyst Perspective on Converged Security

Industry analysts see converged firewall and SASE architectures as increasingly important for organizations preparing networks for AI-driven demands.

Pete Finalle, Research Manager at IDC, said, “Converged SASE and firewall platforms provide the flexibility to meet dynamic, AI-accelerated network architectures where they are, rather than becoming part of next year’s technical debt. Buyers that judge platforms only by how well they fit today’s environment, rather than how effectively they can adapt to tomorrow’s, are already behind.”

FortiSASE Outpost: Sovereign Security Delivered at the Edge

Organizations increasingly need the flexibility to determine where security inspection and enforcement occur. This depends on their business, performance, sovereignty, and compliance requirements. Organizations can route traffic through a cloud-based SASE POP. Meanwhile, they can process data-sensitive or latency-critical traffic locally through FortiSASE Outpost, running on a FortiGate within a customer-controlled environment.

Configured as a FortiSASE Outpost, the FortiGate operates as an ASIC-accelerated on-site SASE POP, delivering security inspection, policy enforcement, and access control closer to users and data. Organizations can strategically place on-site POPs near large concentrations of users in regions without a nearby cloud POP. This helps reduce latency, preserve application performance, and lower bandwidth costs.

This differentiated Fortinet architecture allows organizations to use Fortinet-operated POPs, on-site POPs, or both. The FortiSASE interface centrally manages configuration, policy, monitoring, lifecycle operations, and upgrades across both deployment models. As a result, it maintains consistent zero-trust policies, visibility, and protection without treating the on-site POP as a separate security environment.

Organizations can also keep designated traffic, logs, and processing within defined geographic or private infrastructure boundaries. This helps meet regulatory requirements and reduce connectivity costs without changing the end-user experience.

Protect Every User Without Sacrificing Performance or Control

Regardless of where enforcement occurs, users receive a consistent access experience. Additionally, organizations maintain common security policies, visibility, and zero-trust controls. This enables security teams to keep designated traffic, processing, and logs within specific geographic, jurisdictional, or private infrastructure boundaries. It does this without creating a separate security architecture or changing how users connect to applications.

This deployment flexibility is especially important for AI-driven environments. Agents, applications, and connected devices generate growing volumes of east-west traffic. Much of it may not need a round trip through a cloud POP. Using the FortiGate as a high-performance local enforcement point, organizations can inspect this traffic closer to the user instead. This helps reduce latency, preserve application performance, and maintain control over sensitive information.

Built on FortiOS, FortiGate and FortiSASE share policy, threat intelligence, security context, and zero-trust decisions across local and cloud-delivered environments. FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services provide real-time intelligence and automated protection across both deployment models. Meanwhile, FortiAI helps security teams investigate and respond to threats faster without adding operational complexity.

Analysts also point to the need for architectures that let organizations choose where enforcement occurs without fragmenting policy, operations, or the user experience.

Will Townsend, Chief Analyst, LoneStar Advisory and Research, said, “Organizations should not have to choose between the scalability of cloud-delivered security and the performance, control, or sovereignty of on-premises enforcement. The convergence of these models is creating a meaningful new SASE firewall market. Fortinet is well positioned for this shift, enabling customers to apply security through cloud-delivered FortiSASE or locally with the FortiGate 1200G and with FortiSASE Outpost, based on what their business requires, while maintaining consistent policy, visibility, and user experience.”

Availability

FortiGate 1200G is expected to be available in Q3 (July–September) 2026. For more information, visit the FortiGate 1200G data sheet.

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About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and today we deliver cybersecurity everywhere our customers need it with the largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products. Well over half a million customers trust Fortinet’s solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. The Fortinet Training Institute, one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry, is dedicated to making cybersecurity training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Fortinet collaborates with esteemed organizations from both the public and private sectors, including Computer Emergency Response Teams (“CERTS”), government entities, and academia. This collaboration is a fundamental aspect of Fortinet’s commitment to enhance cyber resilience globally. FortiGuard Labs is Fortinet’s elite threat intelligence and research organization. It develops and utilizes leading-edge machine learning and AI technologies to provide customers with timely and consistently top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence. Learn more at Fortinet, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.

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