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COI Edit Request - [Expanded Business Partnerships]

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. A reviewer felt that this edit would not improve the article.

Please add the following sentence to “Recent History”.

Specific text to be added or removed: In December 2022, telecoms PT&T and Telefonica adopted Fortinet’s SD-WAN into their MSSP platforms.

Chervek, Emma (December 14, 2022). "Telefónica, ngena, Cirion Add Fortinet SD-WAN". SDxCentral. SDxCentral. Retrieved December 22, 2022. Fortinet's SD-WAN capabilities have been tapped by a slew of new managed security service providers (MSSPs) in an effort to provide secure connectivity services.

Reason for the change: The telecoms are the most significant of a group of 5 companies to integrate the Fortinet SD-WAN technology into their offerings.

References supporting change: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/telefonica-ngena-cirion-add-fortinet-sd-wan/2022/12/

Johnwikiwelton (talk) 20:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Per WP:CORPDEPTH, this is trivial coverage. Also likely fails WP:PROMO. voorts (talk/contributions) 02:09, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Taking over for Johnwikiwelton

I'm Dylan Crutchfield and I will be COI requests on behalf of Fortinet from now on. DylanWikiCrutchfield (talk) 19:07, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good article?

This tag was bestowed on 27 October 2016, and with at least some merit at the time, but since then the article has descended back to the corporate marketing mess it was until a year before. Most glaringly, the "Legal disputes" section was removed and its content toned down and scattered throughout the article; instead was added an "Accomplishments in cybersecurity" section hailing achievements such as creating a research team, founding a trade group and "helping" to identify malware and apprehend 419'ers, whatever that means.

Short of a complete overhaul, I suggest that at least the Good article tag be revoked. 2001:8A0:5E59:9801:789C:1C84:8904:EE58 (talk) 15:30, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, will raise at GAR. Couruu (talk) 09:03, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Definition of Accomplishments in cybersecurity?

> In 2005, Fortinet created the FortiGuard Labs internal security research team.

While everything that is done is an accomplishment of some form I think creating a team in a company is hardly an achievement. Similar creating an "alliance" with another company is certainly an accomplishment, however more on the business than on the cyber security side.

In general that whole paragraph very much reads like an ad similar to what you would find in "About Us" sections. I think it should be rewritten or removed. Or at least be added to History. Then creating a team might make sense. Athaba (talk) 20:46, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For context, do you feel the Palo Alto Networks article should also be edited to remove any mention of the Unit 42 team? They do pretty much the same thing as Fortiguard Labs. In fact, both teams issue worldwide alerts for cybersecurity breaches and risks that are carried by multiple media outlets. With respect to a paragraph describing what a company does in conjunction with industry partners, that is of interest to the general public. After all, why have articles about all these companies if the articles don't describe what the companies are doing? Moving some of these points to History might make sense but I think first you should scan the other cybersecurity company articles and see if there is any consistency between your suggestion and how their information is presented. Michael Martinez (talk) 22:28, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]