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Atos expands partnership with Fortinet to deliver a global unified cybersecurity framework across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Paris, France - October 14, 2026 - Atos, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, today announces that it is expanding its longstanding partnership with Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader, from a country-led to a global engagement model. The agreement will help organizations strengthen security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments worldwide through a unified framework including reselling and managed cybersecurity services. It will also align joint business development, customer engagement, service delivery and competitive commercial terms globally to address organizations' growing cybersecurity challenges. Clients contend with escalating cyber threats and ransomware attacks, increasingly complex digital environments, expanding digital transformation programs, stricter regulatory requirements and a persistent shortage of cybersecurity skills. The strengthened Atos Fortinet partnership will combine advanced security technologies with managed security capabilities on a global scale. Through integrated solutions and consistent services worldwide, the partnership will enable organizations to enhance protection and visibility across cloud and on-premises environments, simplify security operations, accelerate threat detection and remediation, and gain the scalability and flexibility required to pursue their digital transformation securely. Fortinet's advanced cybersecurity technologies and engagement support across geographies and Atos' extensive expertise in managed security services, consulting and integration, as well as its global delivery capabilities and network of Security Operations Centers, will provide organizations with more innovative and scalable services to strengthen cyber resilience and support secure digital transformation, with a direct impact on operational efficiency. Over the years, Atos and Fortinet joint offering embraced customers' ongoing challenges, allowing them to benefit from Atos' cybersecurity services embedding Fortinet's latest technologies. Günter Koinegg, global head of cybersecurity services, Atos, said: "Our expanded partnership with Fortinet aligns with our strategy to harness leading technology ecosystems to deliver integrated, outcome-driven solutions for our clients. By combining Fortinet's advanced cybersecurity technologies with Atos' consulting, integration and managed security expertise, we can provide consistent and scalable protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments and help clients address the security challenges in the AI era." Thomas Desrues, SVP channel sales international, Fortinet, said: "Elevating our long-standing partnership from a country-led model to a globally coordinated alliance builds on the strong complementarity between Atos' expertise in digital transformation, systems integration, and managed security, and Fortinet's leadership in cybersecurity innovation focusing on Secure Networking, Unified SASE and AI-Driven Security Operations. Through a unique combination of global scale, shared innovation, and local expertise, we provide the AI-Native Security Fabric organizations need to strengthen cyber resilience and navigate the growing demands for sovereignty, high performance, and security in AI environments." This strengthened framework complements Atos' existing offerings spanning network security, SOC services, Zero Trust, cloud security and SASE architecture (Secure Access Service Edge), as well as cyber resilience. Atos Group's cybersecurity services and products As a global cybersecurity leader with more than 6,500 experts and 205 cybersecurity patents, Atos Group helps organizations navigate the evolving threat landscape with end-to-end, AI-powered security, enabling their pursuit of digital sovereignty and trust. Cybersecurity services, delivered under the Atos brand, offer an integrated blend of strategic consulting, solution integration and continuous managed security services - spanning the entire security lifecycle. With a global network of 17 security operations centers (SOCs) processing more than 31 billion security events per day and serving over 2,000 trusted customers, Atos cybersecurity services deliver a proactive, globally informed approach to securing operations. Its teams operate with deep industry expertise across all sectors, ensuring robust data protection, regulatory compliance, and business continuity worldwide. Cybersecurity products delivered under the Eviden brand consist of a sovereign portfolio built on three complementary areas of expertise: data encryption, identity and access management, and digital identity. Developed and manufactured in Europe, Eviden cybersecurity products comply with the highest European certification standards to safeguard sensitive data, secure digital access and protect the identities across users, systems, and connected devices. About Atos Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements. With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand. A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts. About Atos Group Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 54,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris. 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Citrix, Fortinet, Ivanti patch 29 vulnerabilities across their products. By Ionut Arghire Wednesday, October 14, 2026 SecurityWeek Citrix, Fortinet, and Ivanti have issued urgent patches for 29 vulnerabilities, including critical flaws that allow remote code execution and authentication bypass. These networking tools are prime targets for state-sponsored actors; failing to update immediately leaves enterprise perimeters exposed to breaches that ca SecurityWeek

Fortinet achieves IEC 62443 certification across the FortiOS Product Family. One operating system, independently validated to IEC 62443 across three release lines and every FortiGate form factor, from the control center to the substation Industrial organizations rarely rely on just one type of network firewall. A utility may use high-capacity appliances in its control center, ruggedized units in substations, wireless-enabled devices at remote sites, and virtual firewalls in the cloud. Every enforcement point must meet the organization's security requirements, but verifying compliance across sites and models can be slow and costly. Today, Fortinet announced that the FortiOS Product Family has achieved IEC 62443 certification. The certification covers the FortiOS-powered FortiGate, FortiGate Rugged, FortiWiFi, and FortiGate virtual machine (VM) platforms. The family is certified to IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 4 (SL4), the highest level the standard defines for components. It is built following a Secure Product Development Lifecycle (SPDL) certified to IEC 62443-4-1 Maturity Level 2 (ML2). For operational technology (OT), critical infrastructure (CI), and industrial automation and control systems (IACS), this provides a common, independently validated security foundation across the certified platforms and releases. One operating system, one certified foundation. The certification covers FortiOS v7.4.x, v7.6.x, and v8.x.x family across four platforms, including the product lines, hardware, and hosting models within its scope. | Platform | Typical Deployment | | FortiGate | Enterprise networks, data centers, and control centers | | FortiGate Rugged | Substations, plant floors, and other harsh environments or remote industrial sites | | FortiWiFi | Branch and remote sites that need integrated wireless | | FortiGate VM | Private cloud, public cloud, and virtualized environments | Family-level coverage enables organizations to standardize on a single validated platform across enterprise IT and industrial OT. Consistent policies, administrative controls, and certification evidence can reduce the effort required to support diverse sites and device types. Process and product, validated together. IEC 62443 is an international series of standards for securing industrial automation and control systems. Two of its parts apply directly to product suppliers, covering both secure development processes and component security capabilities. | Standard | What It Evaluates | Level Achieved | | IEC 62443-4-1 | How the product is built: the SDPL, from requirements and design through testing, issue handling, and updates | Maturity Level 2 (ML2) | | IEC 62443-4-2 | What the product does: the technical security capabilities implemented in the component | Security Level 4 (SL4) | IEC 62443-4-1 at ML2 demonstrates that Fortinet's secure development processes are formalized, documented, repeatable, and consistently applied across all eight practice areas of IEC 62443-4-1:2018. IEC 62443-4-2 at SL4 demonstrates that the certified product meets the most demanding security level defined for components in IEC 62443-4-2:2019. Together, these certifications provide asset owners with evidence of both the engineering discipline behind the product and the security capabilities of the product they put into service. Consistent certified capabilities across platforms. FortiOS is the foundation of the Fortinet AI-Native Security Fabric and the Fortinet OT Security Platform. The certification validates the capabilities that OT and CI organizations rely on to protect operations and ensure availability. These capabilities span identity and authentication, least-privilege authorization, system integrity, secure communications, segmentation and restricted data flow, event monitoring, and availability and resilience. With FortiOS as a common operating system, organizations can consistently apply and manage these security controls across deployments, from a FortiGate Rugged in a substation to a FortiGate VM in a cloud tenant. What this means for you. For organizations in critical infrastructure sectors - including manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation, mining, and oil and gas - family-level certification provides independent evidence of security capabilities across certified deployments. * One body of evidence across certified sites and releases: One certificate covers FortiOS v7.4.x, v7.6.x, and v8.x.x across the platforms in scope, allowing sites on different upgrade schedules to share the same certification evidence. * Simpler procurement and compliance: A common certification can help organizations meet procurement and regulatory requirements referencing IEC 62443 across the covered form factors. * Freedom to choose the right platform: Architects can select the platform suited to the environment, whether rugged, wireless, high-throughput, or virtual, while maintaining certified security capabilities. Component certification does not, by itself, make an industrial system compliant. It does, however, give asset owners, system integrators, and auditors a verified building block for zones, conduits, and defense-in-depth architectures designed to meet IEC 62443 requirements. A continued commitment to security by Design. This certification extends a line of independent validation that began with Fortinet's IEC 62443-4-1 ML2 certification for secure product development and continued with the IEC 62443-4-2 SL4 certification for FortiOS 7.6.x. A certificate documents a product's capabilities at the time of assessment. Because industrial assets can remain in service for years, making maintenance windows scarce, OT and CI operators need to know how many flaws may reach the field after an assessment and how quickly they'll be addressed. That process depends on engineering practices. Secure by design reduces flaws at the source. Fortinet was among the first to sign CISA's Secure by Design Pledge in 2024. And over the past six months, the use of functions prone to command execution, memory-safety, and input-handling flaws fell by 95% in the applicable FortiOS code base. Frontier AI then searches for what remains. Models integrated into the development lifecycle have run more than 100 tests across 30 product families, alongside existing static, dynamic, and manual testing, with security analysts validating every finding. As a result, Fortinet finds most issues first, with 60% of vulnerabilities disclosed in 2025 discovered internally. That matters even more as AI shortens the time between disclosure and exploitation. For OT organizations who can't patch at short notice, fewer flaws reaching the field means fewer urgent maintenance windows and less exposure between them. With certified capabilities across FortiGate, FortiGate Rugged, FortiWiFi, and FortiGate VM, and a continually improving engineering practice, Fortinet helps customers confidently protect critical operations and meet evolving regulatory requirements.