{"id":3297,"date":"2015-10-05T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2015-10-05T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:26:32","slug":"capgemini-and-fortinet-sign-global-frame-alliance-partner-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2015\/10\/05\/capgemini-and-fortinet-sign-global-frame-alliance-partner-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Capgemini and Fortinet sign Global Partner Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/\">Capgemini<\/a>, the\u00a0provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has\u00a0announced a global alliance partner relationship with Fortinet. Through this relationship Capgemini will further reinforce its cyber security services portfolio leveraging Fortinet products to help reduce customer cyber security costs and increase the resilience of clients\u2019 infrastructure and applications.<\/p>\n<p>This alliance allows enterprise organisations to benefit from the combination of Fortinet\u2019s expertise in innovative and effective security products and Capgemini\u2019s cyber security services, on a global scale. Together Capgemini and Fortinet will provide new packaged cyber security services such as web application security, security for new generation data centres SDDC, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/security-operations-center\">Security Operation Centres<\/a> specialised in Advanced Data Analysis (3<sup>rd<\/sup> generation capabilities) to help enterprise customers to detect and react to sophisticated cyber attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Capgemini will work with Fortinet as a key partner, within its ecosystem of security product suppliers, to deliver physical and virtualised security protection and security supervision services. Fortinet\u2019s product portfolio &#8211; including FortiWeb web application firewalls, FortiGate network security appliances, and FortiDDoS Distributed Denial of Service attack mitigation appliances &#8211; will help to protect applications, provide security services for clouds and data centres.<\/p>\n<p>These products will be part of Capgemini\u2019s tailored security services for infrastructure, applications and network protection, aiming to deliver flexibility, better performance and to reduce total cost of ownership to enterprise customers. Beyond technology integration, the agreement also covers human expertise with the training of 300 Capgemini engineers around the world to Fortinet\u2019s eight-level certification program. Capgemini and Fortinet already work together to deploy security solutions across HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estate in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Franck Greverie, Global Head of Cybersecurity at Capgemini Group: \u201cNot a month goes by without news of a cyber security attack in the mainstream media. With this increasing threat to enterprises and consumers alike we want to provide the highest security protection and security supervision services to meet these challenges. We are delighted to be working with one of the most innovative, fastest growing, and largest security companies worldwide, which allows us to offer the best level of security to our enterprise customers and further strengthens our market position, since the launch of our Cybersecurity Global Service Line at the start of this year. Drawing on Fortinet technology this alliance partnership will strengthen our application and infrastructure security services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Ken Xie, CEO of Fortinet: \u201cEnterprises must address the challenge of protecting their most valuable business assets, including data and applications. Our partnership with Capgemini is a strategic one, allowing us to join forces to combine advanced technologies with human intelligence and expertise in order to provide broad and adaptive security solutions to the enterprise market. Through our close collaboration, we will be able to support Capgemini\u2019s enterprise customers in their global projects, to help protect them against a highly complex threat landscape, and evolve their security posture to a business environment in constant change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capgemini, the\u00a0provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has\u00a0announced a global alliance partner relationship with Fortinet. Through this relationship Capgemini will further reinforce its cyber security services portfolio leveraging Fortinet products to help reduce customer cyber security costs and increase the resilience of clients\u2019 infrastructure and applications. 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