Today’s small and midsize business (SMB) networks are more distributed and dynamic than ever. IT teams must now provision, update, monitor, and troubleshoot a growing number of users, devices, and locations, often with limited resources and an ever-growing number of tools and applications. Research has found that workers lose an average of 51 minutes per week from tool fatigue—the exhaustion and inefficiency resulting from redundant notifications and navigating between overlapping systems.

When firewall, switching, wireless, and 5G/LTE infrastructure are managed with separate tools, routine operations slow down and become harder to standardize. Consolidating these workflows can help teams reduce complexity and improve security consistency across the secure network.

FortiManagement Cloud is a unified, cloud-based network management and analytics solution designed to help SMBs reduce complexity while scaling for growth. From a single dashboard, IT teams can provision, configure, monitor, and maintain FortiGate network firewalls, connected FortiSwitch Ethernet switches, FortiAP wireless access points, and FortiExtender 5G/LTE gateways. The solution also supports standalone deployments of FortiSwitch, FortiAP, and FortiExtender, providing consistent visibility across your edge network infrastructure.

Key benefits include:

• Reduced complexity and cost through a single consolidated dashboard
• Faster deployment and branch expansion with zero-touch provisioning, reusable templates, and network cloning
• More consistent security through centralized control, monitoring, and maintenance
• Automated provisioning and control of SD-WAN overlay networks
• Improved operational insight through built-in reporting, analytics, and event and incident management

One Cloud Platform for SMBs and Managed Service Providers

FortiManagement Cloud is designed to scale with the needs of both organizations and managed service providers (MSPs). Its multitenant architecture enables MSPs to oversee multiple customer or subsidiary accounts from a single dashboard while maintaining appropriate separation and delegated access. Unified multitenancy across Fortinet services gives teams access to cloud management and analytics capabilities through a single administrator login.

Granular role-based access control, isolated tenant environments, branded reports, and support for external identity providers enable secure, delegated administration without adding management complexity.

Unify Visibility across the Network Lifecycle

FortiManagement Cloud provides unified visibility that helps teams simplify management, enforce consistent security, and coordinate provisioning across locations. It helps organizations manage the network lifecycle through an intuitive dashboard, from device provisioning and network configuration to ongoing maintenance and security enforcement across locations.

By integrating FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, and FortiExtender through Fortinet’s converged networking and security architecture, FortiManagement Cloud enables IT teams to optimize deployments, simplify management, automate operations, and maintain a consistent security posture. Real-time monitoring and analytics provide detailed, drill-down insights into network health, application usage, and user activity, helping organizations identify and address operational issues more quickly.

Accelerate Deployment with Zero-Touch Provisioning

FortiManagement Cloud simplifies remote deployment with zero-touch provisioning. Organizations can register devices, add them to inventory, and automatically apply configurations as devices are discovered within the console. Teams can also deploy devices in bulk, create reusable templates for preconfigured sites, and clone network configurations in a few clicks.

MSPs can standardize deployment and accelerate customer onboarding without requiring on-site technical visits. Preconfigured templates and multitenancy support help MSPs scale services across customers and locations with consistent configurations, thereby reducing operational overhead and cost.

Strengthen Security with Consistent Policy Management

Human error can create unnecessary security risk, with network misconfigurations a leading cause of data breaches and compliance violations. The FortiManagement Cloud intuitive interface helps teams securely configure devices, gain operational insight, and enforce consistent security policies across the network.

FortiManagement Cloud also supports data privacy requirements through regional data centers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Two-factor administrator authentication through FortiToken and certifications including ISO 27001, SOC 2, and ISMAP provide additional support for secure cloud operations.

Simplify Firewall Migration with the FortiConverter Service

For organizations upgrading to FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls, integration between FortiManagement Cloud and the FortiConverter Service helps simplify firewall migration. The FortiConverter Service combines a proven migration methodology with expert validation to reduce manual errors and accelerate transitions from third-party firewalls or existing FortiGate environments.

FortiManagement Cloud unifies cloud network management and analytics across FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, and FortiExtender. Centralized visibility, automation, and multitenant capabilities help organizations and MSPs reduce complexity, improve consistency, and strengthen operational control across distributed networks.

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