Today’s threat landscape is constantly evolving

Attackers operate across distributed environments, while IT teams are under increasing pressure to manage complexity, respond faster and do more with less. Success is no longer about deploying more tools — it’s about achieving visibility, integration and control.

CDW and Fortinet partner to help organisations simplify security and strengthen resilience. Together, we enable you to protect your business, reduce risk and confidently support transformation — wherever your users, applications and data reside.

From secure networking and SASE to endpoint, cloud and data protection, our joint solutions deliver:

  • Consolidated security architecture to reduce complexity and improve efficiency
  • End‑to‑end visibility and control across hybrid environments
  • Scalable protection for users, devices and workloads everywhere
  • Stronger security outcomes aligned to your business goals

With CDW and Fortinet, you can modernise securely — empowering your organisation to innovate, adapt and grow with confidence.

Why Fortinet + CDW

Many organisations struggle with cybersecurity not because they lack investment, but because of complexity. Disconnected tools, fragmented architectures and misaligned priorities often leave teams operating reactively rather than strategically.

Fortinet addresses this challenge through the Fortinet Security Fabric — a broad, integrated and automated platform designed to deliver consistent protection across today’s hybrid and distributed environments. By unifying networking and security, it enables greater visibility, streamlined operations and faster threat response.

CDW brings the expertise to help you turn this capability into meaningful outcomes. We work with you to assess your current posture, identify gaps and prioritise the changes that matter most to your business. The result is a clear, actionable security roadmap that reduces tool sprawl, improves visibility and supports long-term resilience.

Together, CDW and Fortinet help you move from complexity to control — enabling secure adoption of new ways of working while aligning security decisions with operational efficiency and business transformation goals.

Intelligent protection for the modern world of work

Hybrid work, cloud acceleration and hyper-connected environments have fundamentally reshaped the threat landscape. The attack surface is now dynamic and borderless — spanning users, devices, applications and data across edge, cloud and on-premises environments — making consistent visibility and control harder than ever.

Fortinet addresses this challenge with a platform-first, AI-powered approach to cybersecurity, underpinned by the Fortinet Security Fabric. By converging networking and security, and enabling architectures such as Zero Trust and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), organisations can achieve end-to-end visibility, real-time threat intelligence and automated response across their entire digital ecosystem.

CDW ensures this transformation is delivered with purpose and impact. Leveraging deep technical expertise and a consultative approach, we help you assess your security maturity, rationalise your toolset and prioritise high-value initiatives across people, processes and technology.

The result is a shift from fragmented, reactive security to a unified, intelligence-led and scalable cyber strategy — enabling you to innovate faster, operate more securely and build long-term digital resilience in an increasingly complex world.

What Fortinet delivers and how CDW helps

Fortinet delivers one of the industry’s most comprehensive and integrated cybersecurity platforms, enabling organisations to protect the entire attack surface while supporting business growth in an increasingly distributed world.

Built on the Fortinet Security Fabric, this approach brings together networking and security into a unified platform that provides consistent protection, visibility and control across hybrid environments.

Through this architecture, organisations can:

  • Achieve end-to-end visibility across networks, cloud and endpoints

  • Detect, prevent and respond to advanced threats faster

  • Apply consistent security policies across users, devices and applications

  • Reduce complexity through integration and automation

  • Adapt security to evolving infrastructure, risk and business priorities

CDW works alongside Fortinet to ensure these capabilities are aligned to your organisation’s strategy — simplifying adoption, reducing operational burden and helping you realise measurable outcomes.

Core capability areas

To simplify and strengthen security across your environment, Fortinet and CDW focus on three key pillars:

  • Secure Networking

    Converge networking and security to protect users, devices and applications across every edge — from campus and branch to cloud and OT environments.

    Fortinet integrates firewall, LAN, WLAN and SD-WAN capabilities into a single platform, delivering consistent protection and performance.

    CDW ensures this foundation is designed around your business needs, helping you modernise infrastructure without adding unnecessary complexity.

  • Unified SASE

    Enable secure, high-performance access to applications for users anywhere — across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.

    Fortinet’s Unified SASE approach combines networking and cloud-delivered security services into a single architecture, extending the Security Fabric to remote users and distributed locations.

    CDW helps define and implement a SASE strategy tailored to your workforce, data and risk profile — ensuring secure access without compromising user experience.

  • AI-Driven Security Operations

    Enhance threat detection, investigation and response through integrated, intelligence-led security operations.

    Fortinet leverages AI, automation and advanced analytics to reduce response times, improve accuracy and streamline SOC operations across the environment.

    CDW focuses on optimising these capabilities to improve operational efficiency, reduce alert fatigue and strengthen overall security posture.

Together, Fortinet and CDW help organisations move away from fragmented security tools towards a unified, platform-based approach — improving visibility, reducing risk and enabling confident digital transformation.

Start with clarity: CDW Cyber Discovery Workshop

If you are looking for clarity, not more noise, the starting point is understanding where you are today.

A CDW Cyber Discovery Workshop is a structured, business led session designed to give you a clear and independent view of your current security position and priorities.

This workshop focuses on your organisation, not products, helping you identify where improvements are needed and how to move forward.

What the workshop covers

•    Understand your business priorities and risk landscape

•    Identify challenges across people, process and technology

•    Focus on the areas that will deliver the greatest impact

•    Define a clear and actionable roadmap

What you will gain

•    A clear view of your current security position

•    Visibility of gaps, risks and overlaps

•    Identification of inefficiencies and complexity

•    Prioritised actions aligned to business outcomes

•    A structured plan for improving your security approach

This provides the foundation to determine where Fortinet can deliver the most value within your environment, based on real insight rather than assumptions.