Fortinet Launches FortiGate 1200G & FortiSASE Outpost!

FortiGate 1200G with FortiSASE Outpost brings ASIC-powered threat protection and cloud-delivered SASE to customer-controlled environments

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced the FortiGate 1200G series, the latest addition to the FortiGate G series with FortiSASE Outpost, bringing 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 organizations greater flexibility in determining where security should be enforced based on their business needs.

Whether deployed on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud, security teams can maintain consistent protection, high performance, and simplified operations across hybrid environments.

“The convergence of firewall and SASE technologies is creating a new SASE firewall market built for the realities of today’s hybrid world,” said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of Fortinet. “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.”

FortiGate 1200G Series: High-Performance Security Built for AI Infrastructure

As AI adoption, encrypted traffic, and hybrid infrastructure continue to reshape enterprise networks, organizations need to inspect increasingly large volumes of traffic without creating performance bottlenecks. At the same time, they need the flexibility to determine where security enforcement takes place 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 organizations modernize their infrastructure, while hardware-rooted protections strengthen the integrity and resilience of the FortiGate 1200G platform.

Key benefits of the FortiGate 1200G include:

• Keeping applications fast: Predictable, low-latency inspection powered by FortiASIC allows organizations to secure encrypted and AI-driven traffic without sacrificing application performance.
• Modernizing 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 also operate as a high-performance local SASE point of presence (POP), giving organizations another option for where security inspection and enforcement takes place.

Threat protection performance is measured with firewall, IPS, application control, malware protection, and logging enabled.

The figures for competitive solutions are based on publicly available sources. Testing methodologies and performance metrics may vary among vendors.

All power consumption figures are taken from external data sheets and hardware system guides using maximum power consumption.

Industry analysts also see converged firewall and SASE architectures as increasingly important for organizations preparing their networks for AI-driven demands.

“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,” said Pete Finalle, Research Manager at IDC. “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.”

FortiSASE Outpost: Sovereign Security Delivered at the Edge

Organizations increasingly need the flexibility to determine where security inspection and enforcement takes place 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.

Organizations can strategically position on-site POPs near large concentrations of users in regions without a nearby cloud POP. This can help reduce latency, preserve application performance, and lower bandwidth costs.

The Fortinet architecture allows organizations 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.

This maintains consistent zero-trust policies, visibility, and protection without treating an on-site POP as a separate security environment.

Organizations can also keep designated traffic, logs, and processing within defined geographic or private infrastructure boundaries, helping 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 while organizations 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 particularly important for AI-driven environments. Agents, applications, and connected devices generate increasing volumes of east-west traffic that may not need to travel through a cloud POP and back.

By using the FortiGate as a high-performance local enforcement point, organizations can inspect this traffic closer to users. This can help 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 emphasize the importance of architectures that allow organizations to choose where security enforcement occurs without fragmenting policies, operations, or the user experience.

“Organizations should not have to choose between the scalability of cloud-delivered security and the performance, control, or sovereignty of on-premises enforcement,” said Will Townsend, Chief Analyst, LoneStar Advisory and Research. “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.”

Availability

The FortiGate 1200G is expected to be available in Q3 2026. For more information, visit Fortinet.

Additional Resources

• Read more about the FortiGate 1200G series.
• Read more about FortiSASE Outpost.
• Learn more about the Fortinet Security Fabric.
• Explore the Fortinet Open Ecosystem.
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• Read about Fortinet customers and how they are securing their organizations.
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