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Fortinet, a cyber security provider for enterprises, plans to expand its office space by 30 per cent in Bengaluru on the back of increased patent filing out of India.
Talking to BusinessLine , Kishore Reddy, VP, Engineering and Country Manager, India, Fortinet said the company hada 34,000 sq ft R&D facility, which will expand to more than 1 lakh sq ft by March next year.
Self-healing networks
Currently, Fortinet’s development centre in Bengaluru employs around 124 professionals. The centre primarily works on the Wi-Fi technology and others that protect against cyber attacks in an Wi-Fi environment.
Reddy said India has filed 100 out of the 530 patents in the above-mentioned areas and also in areas related to self-healing networks. Self-healing networksuse automation technologies to detect a problem and find the best possible solution.
Other areas that the R&D centre is working on relates to Machine Learning, IoT, real-time locational systems and solutions that are used by the US Department of Defense, 70 per cent of Fortune 100 companies and 9 of the top 10 global banks, he said.
Fortinet is also bullish on in the India market. Cyber security experts point out that as the country starts consuming more technology, it is also becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks, most of which it is not able to anticipate. The problem is compounded by the fact that there is an acute shortage of cyber security professionals.
Opportunities at home
According to Michael Joseph, Director—System Engineering, Fortinet Technologies India, with the country laying the ground to guard the privacy of citizens, corporates also need to get their act together. A
lso, with the RBI insisting that the data related to payments by Indian citizens be stored only in India, building sound security systems has assumed an added urgency.
In October, while speaking at an international conference of data protection and privacy commissioners, Apple CEO Tim Cook made a case for an American version of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), similar to the one enacted by Europe.
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