Windstream Enterprise Debuts Secure Flex Premium with Fortinet for Maximum Enterprise Agility and Digital Acceleration
11 Marzo 2024 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
New offering integrates premium network
technology and security within a high-touch managed service for
enterprises that demand a future-ready digital IT
infrastructure
Windstream Enterprise (WE), a leading IT managed services
provider, today unveiled Secure Flex Premium, a comprehensive suite
of advanced technology solutions powered by Fortinet® (NASDAQ:
FTNT) that provides a fully customizable cybersecurity
infrastructure aimed to address the current and future network
security needs of each unique customer. Through a bespoke
technology package built upon one’s existing on-premises, hybrid or
cloud environment, Secure Flex Premium provides large enterprise
clients with one solution—backed by a dedicated team of managed
services experts—to manage, control and optimize their complete and
desired IT ecosystem.
Today’s CIO and CISO teams are in the midst of an infrastructure
evolution and are tasked with business-critical initiatives
including connecting work-from-anywhere users, maximizing agility,
managing the process of moving applications to the edge or the
cloud, and securing against an increasingly sophisticated threat
landscape. What’s more, these larger businesses are struggling to
stitch together disparate point solutions, which leads to increased
complexity and vulnerability within an enterprise’s digital
environment.
Secure Flex Premium removes the complexity out of managing a
sprawling IT ecosystem by providing a dedicated single-tenant
architecture, powered by enterprise-grade cybersecurity and
networking technologies from Fortinet, which can be readily
implemented on top of one’s existing infrastructure. Delivered by
Windstream Enterprise’s IT Managed Services team, Secure Flex
Premium leverages Fortinet’s unique AI-powered cybersecurity
platform, the Fortinet Security Fabric, and Fortinet’s secure
networking solutions to enable clients to meet these
business-critical demands, accelerate digital transformation
initiatives, and provide complete visibility and control into their
unique IT landscape.
“Creating and managing a fully integrated network and security
solution is more challenging than ever, and keeping pace with the
fast-evolving cyberthreat landscape can be a 24/7/365 undertaking
for an organization and its IT and cybersecurity teams,” said Art
Nichols, chief technology officer, Windstream Enterprise. “By
joining forces with Fortinet, we’re helping to mitigate the risks,
resource drain and headaches that come with those responsibilities
by giving them a single, best-in-breed network and security
solution that creates a stronger security layer than ever
before.”
Components of Windstream Enterprise’s Secure Flex Premium
powered by Fortinet include:
- Comprehensive cybersecurity enabled by the Fortinet Security
Fabric: A scalable security approach provides automated and
synchronized protection across all users, devices, applications and
end points to achieve a more consolidated security posture, with
outcomes like enhanced capabilities for detection, more efficient
responses, consistent policy enforcement, posture and playbook
management and more adaptive and granular access control—all of
which lead to better security. The Fortinet Security Fabric
platform spans the digital attack surface to enable comprehensive
real-time cybersecurity and networking capabilities to protect
customers’ devices, data and applications.
- Dedicated single-tenant solution: Secure Flex Premium is
designed exclusively for each client to ensure a higher degree of
control and customization over their entire IT environment. This
means that the hardware, storage and network are dedicated to a
single client—allowing each enterprise's security infrastructure to
match its unique environment and security posture
requirements.
- Tailored technology coupled with Windstream Enterprise’s
deep expertise with Fortinet: Secure Flex Premium seamlessly
integrates into a client’s existing technology infrastructure to
build a multidimensional security solution—comprising components
like Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Zero Trust Network Access
(ZTNA), End Point Protection (EPP), SD-Branch and SD-WAN, along
with the comprehensive portfolio of Fortinet solutions. With
Windstream Enterprise as the managed services provider, enterprises
remove the challenges and risk of managing disjointed point
solutions from multiple vendors.
- Management flexibility and end-to-end support: Customers
can either self-manage their environment, co-manage it, or have the
solution fully managed by Windstream Enterprise’s IT Managed
Services team. Additionally, customers can tap into this extension
of their team for site surveys, design planning, and implementation
support, all of which help enterprises address the current IT
talent shortage.
- Seamless integration with a white glove experience: With
access to an entire suite of networking, security and collaboration
tools managed by Windstream Enterprise, customers gain a
single-point-of-contact solution with experienced, expert customer
service.
“Businesses in industries with particularly strong security
requirements, such as financial services and healthcare, need
assurance that they’re getting not just best-in-class network and
security technologies, but support for those technologies from an
experienced, knowledgeable and accessible managed services team,”
said John Maddison, chief marketing officer, Fortinet. “With
Fortinet and Windstream Enterprise, that’s exactly what they will
get, with a solution that gives them as much control as they want
over their IT environment and the security capabilities that are
integrated in it.”
“Customers can have the utmost confidence in this solution
because Windstream Enterprise and Fortinet have collaborated for
years, giving us unique insight into Fortinet’s technology and
expertise,” said Mike Flannery, president, Windstream Enterprise.
“Windstream has invested in this relationship from both a
technological perspective and through refining our processes and
techniques, resulting in customers having the ultimate high-quality
experience.”
For more information, please visit
windstreamenterprise.com/secure-flex-premium.
ABOUT WINDSTREAM
Windstream Enterprise drives business and government agency
transformation across the U.S. through managed cloud
communications, networking and security services. Windstream
Enterprise is one of three brands managed by Windstream. The
company’s quality-first approach connects customers to new
opportunities and possibilities by delivering a full suite of
advanced communications services. Windstream also offers
fiber-based broadband to residential and small business customers
in 18 states as well as customized wavelength and dark fiber
solutions to carriers, content providers and hyperscalers in the
U.S. and Canada. Windstream is a privately held company
headquartered in Little Rock, Ark. Additional information about
Windstream Enterprise is available at windstreamenterprise.com or
windstream.com. Follow us on LinkedIn at @Windstream.
ABOUT FORTINET
Fortinet 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 you 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. FortGuard Labs, Fortinet’s elite threat intelligence and
research organization, 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 www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog,
and FortiGuard Labs.
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