On the Record · Fortinet
Fortinet competitors, on the record
The companies Fortinet names as competitors in its annual reports, 2023 to 2025, and the companies that name Fortinet, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Fortinet names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. | 2025 |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2025 |
| CrowdStrike | 2025 |
| F5 Networks | 2025 |
| HPE | 2025 |
| Huawei | 2025 |
| Microsoft | 2025 |
| Netskope | 2025 |
| Palo Alto Networks | 2025 |
| SonicWALL | 2025 |
| Sophos | 2025 |
| Zscaler | 2025 |
In its own words
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Cisco Systems, Inc.
Word for word“Among others, our competitors include Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point”), Cisco Systems, Inc.” 10-K for 2025
CrowdStrike, F5 Networks, HPE, Huawei, Microsoft, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, SonicWALL, Sophos, Zscaler
Word for word“Our competitors include companies such as Check Point, Cisco, CrowdStrike, F5 Networks, HPE, Huawei, Microsoft, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, SonicWALL, Sophos, and Zscaler.” 10-K for 2025
Who names Fortinet
Companies whose own annual reports name Fortinet as a competitor.
Check Point Software Technologies
Word for word“Our competitors include Cisco Systems, Inc., Fortinet Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Inc. and SonicWall Inc. and other companies in the network security space.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“To a lesser extent, Extreme competes with products and solutions from Arista Networks Inc., RUCKUS Networks, Inc., Fortinet, Inc., and Ubiquiti Inc.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In application security, we compete with vendors that offer web application firewall, bot detection and mitigation, API protection, carrier-grade firewall, carrier-grade network address translation ("NAT"), SSL orchestration, access policy management, and DDoS mitigation including Akamai, Cisco, Cloudflare, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, Palo Alto, Radware, and Thales (Imperva).” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our primary competitors are technology vendors, such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Arista Networks Inc, Nokia Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Ciena Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Extreme Networks, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Inc., Zscaler, Inc., Netskope, Inc., Ruckus Networks, and Ubiquiti and networking-as-a-service vendors such as Nile and Meter.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our principal competitors in the business market include Arista, Cisco Systems, D-Link, Extreme Networks, Fortinet, Haiwei, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Ruckus Networks, TP-Link, and Ubiquiti.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We compete under the NetScout Arbor brand with a broad range of vendors including Radware, Akamai, F5 Networks, A10 Networks, Fortinet, Fastly, Cloudflare and Corero Network Security.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In the enterprise WLAN and switching markets, we primarily compete with Cisco, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Aruba Networks and Juniper Networks), and Ruckus (Belden).” 10-K for 2026
Read from Fortinet’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-25. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.