Fortinet FortiNAC is a network access control (NAC) product. It gives visibility into the devices connected to an enterprise network, including IT, IoT, OT and medical equipment, and enforces access policies. Capabilities include agentless device detection and profiling, network segmentation, onboarding of BYOD, guest and contractor devices, and automated response to anomalous behaviour. It integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric and, according to Fortinet, can also control network equipment from other manufacturers. It is delivered as a hardware appliance or as a virtual machine.
Fortinet, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and listed on the Nasdaq, so US law, including the CLOUD Act, applies to it. Because FortiNAC runs on premises, device inventories and access logs stay in your own environment, for example in a European data centre. The software is proprietary and not open source. For a European organisation, the main points to weigh are the US parent company and the dependence on Fortinet licensing and updates.