Back-to-back firewalls were effective 15-20 years ago, but in today's encrypted, identity-driven and rapidly evolving threat landscape, they add cost and complexity without meaningful protection. Modern security replaces duplicated perimeters with platform-integrated NGFW enforcement, segmentation and coordinated prevention—delivering stronger, measurable defense through intelligent design rather than stacked legacy controls.

WWT's and Fortinet's partnership was showcased during Accelerate 2026.

FortiWeb, like Fortinet's NGFW FortiGate, also earns recognition as a leader and outperformer in Application and API Security (AAS) GigaOm Market Radar.

Using key innovation and market velocity evaluation criteria, we take a closer look at how Fortinet's Next Generation Firewall and Hybrid Mesh Firewall solutions perform in WWT's Advanced Technology Center environment for a variety of network security use cases.

In part two of this series, I examine two more challenges created by technical debt and how Fortinet can eliminate them.