Nasdaq-listed cybersecurity company behind FortiGate firewalls and Unified SASE, with an India entity registered in Bengaluru
fortinet.comLegal name
Fortinet, Inc. (India entity: Fortinet Technologies India Private Limited, CIN U51909KA2008PTC046691)
CFO
Christiane Ohlgart, Chief Financial Officer
Industry
Cybersecurity: network security, firewalls, SASE, SecOps and cloud security
Employees
15,109
Revenue (FY25)
$6.80 billion, up 14% year over year
Market Cap
$113.60 billion (as of July 2026)
Listed on
NASDAQ: FTNT, IPO November 18, 2009, S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 component
Headquarters
909 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California 94086, USA
Fortinet, Inc. is a US cybersecurity company founded in 2000 by brothers Ken Xie and Michael Xie in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's headquartered at 909 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale, California, and trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker FTNT, where it's a component of both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100. The company is best known for its FortiGate firewalls, which run on custom security processors, and its product set now spans network security, Unified SASE, security operations, cloud security and endpoint protection.
Fortinet reported revenue of $6.80 billion for full year 2025, up 14% year over year, with billings of $7.55 billion and free cash flow of $2.21 billion. Growth carried into 2026: first quarter revenue rose 20% to $1.85 billion and billings rose 31% to $2.09 billion, and the company guided full year 2026 revenue to a range of $7.71 billion to $7.87 billion. It says more than 900,000 customers use its products, and it holds 1,430 global patents as of March 31, 2026.
In India, the business operates through Fortinet Technologies India Private Limited, incorporated on June 6, 2008 and registered in Bengaluru at The Millennia, Murphy Road, Ulsoor. Current India hiring is concentrated in Gurugram and Mumbai across systems engineering, presales solution architecture and sales roles. The company has also built India channel and services ties, including a March 2026 managed SASE partnership with Tech Mahindra.
Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Interview experience
6 out of 10, based on India reviews
Interview difficulty
Medium, 4 out of 10
Interview process length
About a week for most candidates
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Q: Can you describe your experience with developing, testing or debugging software applications for network security?
A: Walk through one security project end to end: what the component did, the protocols or traffic it touched, and how you validated it. Name the debugging tools you reached for, such as packet captures, log tracing or a fuzzer.
Q: Describe your experience working with multi-threaded programming and synchronization techniques.
A: Explain where you used threads, why concurrency was needed, and which primitives you chose. Mutexes, read-write locks, atomics and lock-free queues each suit different contention patterns, so justify the choice.
Q: Can you discuss your experience using scripting languages like Python, Perl, or Shell for automating tasks and test cases?
A: Give an example of manual work you turned into a script, and quantify the time saved. Test automation, log parsing and device configuration are the usual targets in a security engineering team.
Q: Can you provide examples of how you've implemented secure coding practices to prevent vulnerabilities or exploits?
A: Cover input validation, safe memory handling, least privilege and dependency hygiene with a specific example of each where you can. Tie the practice to the vulnerability class it prevents.
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July 22, 2026
Intel to help design and manufacture Fortinet's SP6 security processor
Intel and Fortinet announced a partnership under which Intel will help design, package and manufacture Fortinet's next generation Security Processor 6, used in its firewall and network security appliances. The deal is meant to speed SP6 development and reduce reliance on single-source chip suppliers.
#Semiconductors #Partnership #NetworkSecurity
View postJuly 2, 2026
Fortinet sets July 29 date for second quarter 2026 results
Fortinet said it will report Q2 2026 financial results and hold a conference call on Wednesday, July 29, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The call will be webcast on the investor relations site with a replay afterwards.
#Earnings #InvestorRelations
View postJune 24, 2026
Derek Kan joins Fortinet's board of directors
Fortinet appointed Derek Kan, a former Shopify executive and former deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to its board. Ken Xie said Kan's public sector and technology transformation experience would help the company.
#Governance #Leadership
View postMay 6, 2026
Q1 2026 revenue up 20% to $1.85 billion
Fortinet reported first quarter 2026 revenue of $1.85 billion, product revenue of $645 million up 41%, and billings of $2.09 billion up 31%, with record free cash flow of $1.01 billion. It guided full year 2026 revenue to $7.71 billion to $7.87 billion.
#Earnings #Growth
View postMarch 17, 2026
Tech Mahindra and Fortinet partner on managed SASE
Tech Mahindra and Fortinet announced a managed Secure Access Service Edge offering combining secure SD-WAN, ZTNA and threat protection with 24x7 security operations centres. The joint service targets enterprises modernising branch, edge and remote network security.
#India #SASE #Partnership
View postFortinet is a cybersecurity company best known for its FortiGate firewalls, which run on custom security processors. Its product set covers network security, Unified SASE, security operations, cloud security and endpoint protection, and it says more than 900,000 customers use its products.
