You no longer can say that inside a company everything is trusted because you could bring in a contaminated device. And it’s the same thing with data, because so much is no longer stored inside a company. Ken Xie Read Quote
More organizations than ever are conducting business online. An expanding digital footprint and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks have created a growing urgency to secure that data and the resources organizations are deploying. Ken Xie Read Quote
Fortinet was founded in 2000 with the goal of making an impactful change in the network security space. Ken Xie Read Quote
Cyber security is a dynamic space. The user faces different challenges every year because there are always new applications and data. Ken Xie Read Quote
If you knew the user, you’d let them in. But, the content could contain a lot of dangerous stuff, even if you know the person using that content, you have to check what’s inside there. That’s where Fortinet started, trying to go deep inside of content, or inside an application to make sure those were secure. Ken Xie Read Quote
My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor. Ken Xie Read Quote
Cisco presents our biggest challenge in the firewall market for the fact that they have such a large percentage of market share. Displacement of an entrenched incumbent is always a challenge. Ken Xie Read Quote
Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I’m fine with their name being close to ours. Ken Xie Read Quote
Our view is that if the network is involved, then we are there to protect it. Based on that, future developments will revolve around ensuring data, networks and applications are protected. Ken Xie Read Quote
With security, in the early days, we would just have firewalls and you’d check who could come into the network and who could not. Ken Xie Read Quote
