91/100BFortinet company profile
- CEO
- Ken Xie
- Employees
- 15,311
- Headquarters
- 899 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, US
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Software - Infrastructure
- IPO date
- 18 Nov 2009
- Stock exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US34959E1091
Website:fortinet.com
About the company
Fortinet, Inc. specializes in delivering extensive, unified, and automated cybersecurity solutions to a global clientele, encompassing the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific regions. At its core, the company offers FortiGate, a powerful platform combining hardware and software licenses that provides a comprehensive suite of security and networking functionalities. This includes firewall capabilities, intrusion prevention, anti-malware defense, virtual private network (VPN) services, application control, web filtering, anti-spam measures, and wide area network (WAN) acceleration. Beyond its flagship product, Fortinet provides a diverse portfolio of specialized security tools. These range from FortiSwitch for secure network switching and FortiAP for robust wireless connectivity, to FortiExtender, a versatile hardware appliance. For centralized network visibility and control, clients utilize FortiAnalyzer for logging, analysis, and reporting, and FortiManager for scalable administration of FortiGate devices. The company further fortifies digital defenses with FortiWeb (web application firewalls), FortiMail (secure email gateways), and FortiSandbox technology, which offers proactive threat detection and mitigation. Endpoint protection is a key focus, delivered through FortiClient (featuring pattern-based anti-malware, behavior-based exploit protection, web-filtering, and an application firewall) and the advanced FortiEDR/XDR suite, which leverages machine learning for anti-malware execution and real-time post-infection defense. Additionally, FortiToken and FortiAuthenticator product families provide essential multi-factor authentication to safeguard systems and data. Fortinet's service offerings include security subscriptions, technical support, professional consulting, and training programs. Its robust security technologies are distributed both directly to end-users and through an extensive network of channel partners. The company serves a wide array of sectors, including telecommunications, technology, government, financial services, education, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet, Inc. was established in 2000 and maintains a strategic alliance with Linksys.
Employees
Fortinet had about 15,109 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 6.9% more than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Fortinet
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 68.9% of Fortinet's shares on 30 June 2026, 1,668 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Common questions about Fortinet
Source: Financial Modeling PrepVerified against SEC filings