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Enable Productivity, Seamless Experiences, Without Sacrificing Security

Growth in the M&E space has come from high-quality content delivered to more people on an increasing number of platforms.

According to PwC’s 2022 Global Entertainment and Media Outlook, this $2.5T market is forecast to continue at a nearly 4.6 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). With the rise in cyber crimes from every angle, ranging from simple consumer passwords to complex nation-state sponsored breaches, the need to enable the right systems and tools has never been more critical.

In many cases, securing content, while stored and in transit, remains a challenging task as the sheer volume overtakes the capacities of most security platforms.

The subscriber race is on, focusing on growth and retention. With each added consumer is the expectation of an optimal experience. With competition in every form, consumers are simply unwilling to compromise if the delivery platform or media cannot perform. The ability to deliver streaming media with the least amount of latency and minimal variation, known as “jitter,” is paramount to reducing slow loading and buffering.

Behind the growth push lies the desire to control the costs to expand and operate the network infrastructure itself. Capital expenditures (CapEx), such as the networking and security hardware have not reduced in matching linearity with the consumption demands. Operational costs (OpEx), like power and cooling, constitute a significant portion of spending for a growing infrastructure.

With rich integration to an array of traffic delivery and security platforms, internal and third party, the Fortinet Security Fabric can redirect traffic to minimize outages, even in major public cloud facilities. In parallel, global load-balancing and automated scale-out can allow hosting providers to maintain optimal efficiency and not overprovision services that cost money to stay idle.

Fortinet takes a unique approach to enabling security throughout the content lifecycle. The company produces many of its own hardware processors and components, driving down product costs and drastically lowering the power requirements, one of the biggest factors in modern operations due to both the cost of power and its related environmental impact.

While the shift to the cloud is real and measured, massive scale of content distribution has mostly remained in physical hosting facilities that can deliver enormous scale with the predictable performance that stems from hardware acceleration and purpose-built devices that don’t require any sacrifices to add industry-leading security.

With our flagship next-generation firewall (NGFW) FortiGate hardware models ranging from environmentally hardened units to secure operational technology (OT) in manufacturing, to small desktop units to support small offices or remote workers, to chassis-based datacenter solutions that can process terabits of network traffic through 100G and 400G connections, Fortinet can scale security to meet every organization’s security demands.

With user performance in mind, these platforms can deliver content with as little as three microseconds of delay, meaning less waiting or buffering for clients being delivered or streamed content, while the overall scale can support growth in a cost-effective design with integrated best-of-breed security for traffic protection and inspection.

Fortinet is sponsoring the upcoming Entertainment Evolution Symposium 2022.

This is the first of three guest articles by John Jacobs, field CISO, technology, for Fortinet