Bradford Networks

The Bradford Networks company is engaged in network security. Solutions in the field of network access control play an important role in protection of policy of BYOD, IoT and devices of endpoints.

The solutions Bradford Networks are used more than in 1000 organizations worldwide in different segments of the market, including education, power generation and public service, finance, hotel and restaurant business, defense and public service, health care, production, retail, etc.

2018: Fortinet purchases Bradford Networks

In June, 2018 Fortinet company, the developer of the large-scale integrated and automated solutions on information security support, completed acquisition of Bradford Networks company for gain of own network security system using technologies of access control and solutions of security of IoT. As envisioned by Fortinet, it will allow to give to the large companies ampler opportunities of tracking and security for their complex networks, including the following solutions:

• Full, continuous tracking of the endpoints, users, reliable and unreliable devices and applications having access to network including IoT and devices deprived of own management tools without involvement of agents.
• The advanced IoT technology thanks to microsegmentation of devices, the politician allows to provide to dynamic classification of devices without own management tools on type and a profile and also automatic appointment the detailed isolation of unreliable devices using a simple web user interface.
• Instant exact sorting of events and control of threats using the automated integration of workflows for prevention of movements in the horizontal plane.
• Simple and economic deployment thanks to high-scalable architecture allows to eliminate deployment on each object of the large organizations.

The Fortinet company does not expect that transaction will strongly affect financial performance of the company in the second quarter or for all 2018 which will be available on May 3, 2018.