Fortinet® has announced the expansion of its FortiGate G series with the introduction of the FortiGate 1200G series and FortiSASE Outpost, a security solution designed to streamline the convergence of firewall and SASE technologies.
This new offering integrates cloud-delivered security services into environments controlled by customers, providing organisations with enhanced flexibility to enforce security where it is most beneficial.
The FortiGate 1200G series offers high-performance threat protection and modern connectivity, maintaining consistent security measures across hybrid environments, whether on-premises, at the network edge, or within the cloud. This development responds to increasing demands for AI infrastructure, encrypted traffic security, and hybrid network configurations.
Advanced technology
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fortinet, highlighted the significance of this technological integration: “The convergence of firewall and SASE technologies is creating a new SASE firewall market built for the realities of today’s hybrid world. Fortinet anticipated this shift by building FortiGate and FortiSASE on FortiOS and investing in proprietary ASIC technology that delivers security and performance at scale from day one.”
The new capabilities of the FortiGate 1200G, coupled with FortiSASE Outpost, are geared towards adapting to customer requirements in sovereignty, performance, and AI infrastructure.
FortiGate 1200G Series: Security for AI infrastructure
FortiASIC delivers low-latency protection for demanding environments, including data centresThe introduction of AI technologies, growing encrypted traffic, and hybrid infrastructures is transforming enterprise networks. The FortiGate 1200G series tackles these challenges, enabling traffic inspection without throttling performance.
At its core, Fortinet’s FortiASIC architecture ensures low-latency protection suitable for demanding environments, including data centres. With flexible 10G, 25G, and 100G connectivity, organisations can modernise infrastructures, bolstering platform resilience and redundancy.
Key benefits
- Accelerated, low-latency inspection through FortiASIC secures both encrypted and AI-driven traffic without diminishing performance.
- Flexible connectivity options support various environments, providing growth room for AI advancements.
- Hardware-rooted protections, secure credential storage, and built-in redundancy enhance operational resilience.
- Unified policy management across appliances and services reduces complexity.
Organisations can also configure the FortiGate 1200G as a FortiSASE Outpost, functioning as a local SASE point-of-presence (POP) to determine security tasks' location based on current workflow needs.
FortiSASE Outpost: Edge security
FortiSASE Outpost offers sovereign security at the network edge, allowing traffic routing through a SASE cloud POP or processing locally through a FortiGate. This local processing helps reduce latency, improve application performance, and decrease ongoing connectivity expenses by avoiding unnecessary routing.
FortiSASE interface centrally manages these deployments, providing consistent security policies and zero-trust frameworks. This configuration maintains uniform user experience and policy enforcement without the need for separate security structuring.
Unified user protection
FortiGate and FortiSASE automate security across cloud and on-premises environmentsBy harnessing AI-generated traffic intelligently, organisations can maintain optimal application performance while ensuring controlled access. Built on FortiOS, the FortiGate and FortiSASE provide real-time intelligence and automated security across cloud and local environments.
FortiGuard's AI-powered services facilitate timely threat response, simplifying operational demands.
Industry significance
According to analysts, the hybrid model of combining cloud-delivered security and local enforcement is pivotal for future network demands. Will Townsend, Chief Analyst at LoneStar Advisory and Research, noted: “Organisations should not have to choose between the scalability of cloud-delivered security and the performance, control, or sovereignty of on-premises enforcement. The convergence of these models is creating a meaningful new SASE firewall market. Fortinet is well positioned for this shift, enabling customers to apply security through cloud-delivered FortiSASE or locally with the FortiGate 1200G and with FortiSASE Outpost, based on what their business requires, while maintaining consistent policy, visibility, and user experience.”
The FortiGate 1200G series is anticipated to be available in Q3 2026, promising significant enhancements in the security sector.
Fortinet® , the global cybersecurity pioneer driving the convergence of networking and security, announced the FortiGate 1200G series, the newest addition to the FortiGate G series with FortiSASE Outpost, which brings cloud-delivered security services into customer-controlled environments.
By combining high-performance threat protection, modern connectivity, hardware-rooted platform security, and cloud-delivered security capabilities, the solution gives organisations the flexibility to enforce security where it makes the most business sense.
Whether on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud, security teams can maintain consistent protection, high performance, and simplified operations across hybrid environments.
Advanced technology
"The convergence of firewall and SASE technologies is creating a new SASE firewall market built for the realities of today’s hybrid world. Fortinet anticipated this shift by building FortiGate and FortiSASE on FortiOS and investing in proprietary ASIC technology that delivers security and performance at scale from day one."
"The FortiGate 1200G with FortiSASE Outpost capability advances this vision by combining local enforcement and cloud-delivered security to address customers’ evolving sovereignty, performance, and AI infrastructure requirements." Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of Fortinet.
FortiGate 1200G Series: High-Performance Security Built for AI Infrastructure
As AI adoption, encrypted traffic, and hybrid infrastructure reshape enterprise networks, organisations need to inspect growing traffic volumes without introducing performance bottlenecks. They also need the flexibility to determine where security enforcement occurs based on application performance, data sovereignty, compliance, and operational requirements.
Powered by Fortinet’s latest FortiASIC architecture, the FortiGate 1200G series accelerates networking and security processing to deliver predictable, low-latency protection for demanding enterprise and data center environments. Flexible 10G, 25G, and 100G connectivity helps organisations modernise their infrastructures, while hardware-rooted protections strengthen the integrity and resilience of the FortiGate 1200G.
Key benefits of the FortiGate 1200G include:
- Keeping applications fast: Predictable low-latency inspection powered by FortiASIC enables organisations to secure encrypted and AI-driven traffic without sacrificing application performance.
- Modernising with room to grow: Flexible connectivity supports campus, data center, and hybrid environments while providing headroom for future AI-driven growth.
- Increasing operational resilience: Hardware-rooted protections, secure credential storage, and built-in redundancy strengthen platform integrity and improve business continuity.
- Reducing operational complexity: FortiOS consolidates networking and security while enabling consistent policy management across appliances and cloud-delivered services.
When configured as a FortiSASE Outpost, the FortiGate 1200G can operate as a high-performance local SASE point-of-presence (POP), giving organisations another option for where security inspection and enforcement occur.
Industry analysts see converged firewall and SASE architectures as increasingly important for organisations preparing networks for AI-driven demands.
Providing flexibility
"Converged SASE and firewall platforms provide the flexibility to meet dynamic, AI-accelerated network architectures where they are, rather than becoming part of next year’s technical debt. Buyers that judge platforms only by how well they fit today’s environment, rather than how effectively they can adapt to tomorrow’s, are already behind." Pete Finalle, Research Manager at IDC.
FortiSASE Outpost: Sovereign security delivered at the edge
Organisations increasingly need the flexibility to determine where security inspection and enforcement occur based on their business, performance, sovereignty, and compliance requirements. Traffic can be routed through a cloud-based SASE POP, while data-sensitive, or latency-critical traffic can be processed locally through FortiSASE Outpost running on a FortiGate within a customer-controlled environment.
Configured as a FortiSASE Outpost, the FortiGate operates as an ASIC-accelerated on-site SASE POP, delivering security inspection, policy enforcement, and access control closer to users and data. Organisations can strategically place on-site POPs near large concentrations of users in regions without a nearby cloud POP, helping reduce latency, preserve application performance, and lower bandwidth costs.
This differentiated Fortinet architecture allows organisations to use Fortinet-operated POPs, on-site POPs, or both. The FortiSASE interface centrally manages configuration, policy, monitoring, lifecycle operations, and upgrades across both deployment models, maintaining consistent zero-trust policies, visibility and protection without treating the on-site POP as a separate security environment.
Organisations can also keep designated traffic, logs, and processing within defined geographic or private infrastructure boundaries to meet regulatory requirements and reduce connectivity costs without changing the end-user experience.
Protect every user without sacrificing performance or control
Regardless of where enforcement occurs, users receive a consistent access experience, and organisations maintain common security policies, visibility, and zero-trust controls. This enables security teams to keep designated traffic, processing, and logs within specific geographic, jurisdictional, or private infrastructure boundaries without creating a separate security architecture or changing how users connect to applications.
This deployment flexibility is especially important for AI-driven environments. Agents, applications and connected devices generate growing volumes of east-west traffic that may not need to be routed through a cloud POP and back. Using the FortiGate as a high-performance local enforcement point, organisations can inspect this traffic closer to the user. This helps reduce latency, preserve application performance, and maintain control over sensitive information.
Built on FortiOS, FortiGate and FortiSASE share policy, threat intelligence, security context, and zero-trust decisions across local and cloud-delivered environments. FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services provide real-time intelligence and automated protection across both deployment models, while FortiAI helps security teams investigate and respond to threats faster without adding operational complexity.
Analysts also point to the need for architectures that let organisations choose where enforcement occurs without fragmenting policy, operations, or the user experience.
Meaningful SASE firewall market
"Organisations should not have to choose between the scalability of cloud-delivered security and the performance, control, or sovereignty of on-premises enforcement. The convergence of these models is creating a meaningful new SASE firewall market. Fortinet is well positioned for this shift, enabling customers to apply security through cloud-delivered FortiSASE or locally with the FortiGate 1200G and with FortiSASE Outpost, based on what their business requires, while maintaining consistent policy, visibility, and user experience." Will Townsend, Chief Analyst, LoneStar Advisory and Research.
Availability
FortiGate 1200G is expected to be available in Q3 2026.
