Fortinet Recognized for Leadership in Three KuppingerCole CNAPP Compass Categories

We're proud to share that FortiCNAPP has been named a Leader in three categories in the 2025 KuppingerCole Compass Report for CNAPP:

• Overall Leadership
• Market Leadership
• Innovation Leadership

This recognition highlights how FortiCNAPP helps customers simplify their cloud security, reduce business risk, and accelerate digital transformation, while strengthening Fortinet's market position as a trusted leader in integrated cloud and network security.

What Does This Recognition Mean?

Overall Leadership

KuppingerCole placed FortiCNAPP among the "Overall Leaders," recognizing its ability to deliver both technical strength and meaningful business outcomes. Customers consistently point to fewer tools to manage, clearer visibility into risk, and faster time to remediation.

Market Leadership

FortiCNAPP was also named a "Market Leader," reflecting growing adoption across industries from healthcare to gaming. Customers value how tightly it integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric, providing a unified security posture across on-premises and cloud environments. This positions Fortinet as one of the few vendors able to bridge enterprise and cloud-native security at scale.

As Artur Hottmann, Team Lead Platform Engineering at AOK Systems GmbH, explained: "Each morning, our team starts by logging into FortiCNAPP to quickly get a clear overview of our security posture. We've been able to fully replace several other tools, saving both time and operational costs. FortiCNAPP provides such a wide range of capabilities that those tools became unnecessary."

Innovation Leadership

Finally, FortiCNAPP earned recognition as an "Innovation Leader." From early investments in agentless scanning to advanced risk scoring and contextual attack-path analysis, FortiCNAPP is shaping how security teams move from reactive alerts to proactive risk management.

Hans-Michael Odenthal, IaaS/SecOps at AOK Systems GmbH, told us: "We started a proof of concept on a Monday and were expecting it to take two weeks to get the first account functioning. By Tuesday evening, within 48 hours, we had all of our accounts working, and most of the assets as well. It was fantastic; very fast and very intuitive."

Why Fortinet Stands Apart

While other vendors bolt together point tools, Fortinet delivers cloud security as part of a broader platform. FortiCNAPP is tightly integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric, enabling consistent policies, shared threat intelligence, and faster response. That means security teams can protect cloud workloads with the same confidence they protect their networks, users, and data.

Continuous Progress, Driven by Customers

FortiCNAPP advances quickly because we listen to our customers and focus on their most pressing needs:

• Clarity, not noise: AI-driven analytics filter millions of signals into high-confidence, actionable alerts.
• Context that matters: Visual attack path graphs show not just what's at risk, but why it matters for the business.
• Frictionless adoption: Agentless scanning, rapid AWS Marketplace deployment, and fabric integration make security easy to adopt and scale.

Recent updates include near real-time CloudTrail alerting, agentless scanning for Windows workloads, and interactive security graphs, capabilities designed to reduce complexity and accelerate results.

See FortiCNAPP in Action

Whether you're consolidating tools, addressing regulatory requirements, or scaling securely in the cloud, FortiCNAPP helps you move faster with less risk. We'd be glad to show you how.

Download the full KuppingerCole Leadership Compass CNAPP report.

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