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The Fortinet Deployment Reality
In our assessment experience across Saudi enterprises and government entities, the typical Fortinet deployment utilises between 25 and 40 percent of the licensed capability. The unused capability includes features directly relevant to NCA ECC compliance and the threat detection capabilities that make the investment worthwhile.
What Most Organisations Are Missing
FortiGate is almost universally deployed as a perimeter firewall but rarely as an internal segmentation firewall, despite the fact that the NCA ECC explicitly requires network segmentation controls. SSL inspection is enabled in fewer than 30 percent of FortiGate deployments we assess, despite the majority of malware now using encrypted channels.
The Security Fabric Integration Opportunity
Fortinet's Security Fabric delivers greatest value when products share telemetry and coordinate response actions. For NCA-regulated organisations, the automated response capabilities of a properly configured Security Fabric directly support the detection, containment, and reporting obligations that the NCA prescribes.