SECURITY
NEWS
A10 Networks gains five major 5G GI-LAN security
design wins in second half of 2018
A
10 Networks, a provider of
intelligent and automated
cybersecurity solutions, announced
it has secured five major 5G network
design wins in the second half of 2018
for its A10 Thunder Convergent Firewall
(CFW) Gi/SGi firewall solution, including
three wins in the fourth quarter. traffic. A10 Thunder CFW outperforms all
competitors in these areas.
“A10 is extremely well positioned to
address the security needs of mobile
carriers and their 4G and 5G networks,”
said A10’s CEO Lee Chen. “We secured five
major 5G design wins in recent months
and are working closely with numerous
A10 Networks was selected by these
carriers in Asia and EMEA because
of the Thunder CFW’s ability to meet
the massive capacity demands of 4G
and 5G networks with unprecedented
performance and scale, comprehensive
feature set and rich automation
capabilities. Capacity demands rise
significantly in 5G networks due to
substantial increases in concurrent
sessions, extreme reliability and higher
connections per second. As a result,
legacy firewalls often cannot handle the other leading operators around the
world on their 5G security upgrades and
transformation projects.”
“5G networks introduce major
new requirements for scalability and
performance, lower latency, complex
virtual multi-vendor integrations,
and automation,” Chen added. “This
complexity plays directly to A10’s
strengths as an industry and technology
leader in hyperscalability, feature
richness, Gi-LAN consolidation, and AI-
driven automation.”
A10’s CEO Lee Chen
Fortinet serves as a founding partner of World
Economic Forum’s Centre for cybersecurity
F
ortinet, a global leader in cybersecurity
solutions, has announced the company
has been named as the first cybersecurity
founding partner of the World Economic
Forum (WEF) Centre for Cybersecurity.
Both organisations believe the threat of
cybersecurity demands a global response. To
respond to the threat of cybercriminals WEF
has established the Centre for Cybersecurity,
a global network of partners from business,
government, international organisations,
academia and civil society to collaborate on
cybersecurity challenges.
Fortinet’s partnership with the centre
is further reinforcement of the company’s
longstanding commitment to public and
private sector collaboration.
In conjunction with the Centre for
Cybersecurity, Fortinet will continue its
efforts to collaborate, innovate and develop
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powerful global solutions to reduce global
cyberattacks, contain current and future
Ken Xie, Founder,
Chairman of the Board,
and CEO, Fortinet
cyberattacks, and deter cybercrime.
Fortinet’s CEO Ken Xie will serve as a
member of the Centre for Cybersecurity
Advisory Board.
“We are proud to be the first
cybersecurity company named a founding
partner of the WEF Centre for Cybersecurity
and look forward to collaborating with global
leaders from the private and public sectors
through our shared commitment to deliver a
response to the growing global cybersecurity
threat,” said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of
the Board, and CEO, Fortinet.
“The WEF’s Centre for Cybersecurity
is important for global multi-stakeholder
collaboration and serving as a founding
partner of the centre is yet another step
forward in our own mission to secure the
largest enterprise, service provider and
government organisations in the world.”
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