Fortinet unveiled its highly anticipated 2023 Sustainability Report, underscoring its pivotal role in advancing the fusion of networking and security while prioritising sustainability. The comprehensive annual report serves as a blueprint of Fortinet’s strategies, obligations, and advancements in addressing critical sustainability issues vital to its diverse stakeholders, including employees, investors, suppliers, partners, and customers.
Emphasising its dedication to sustainability, Fortinet’s approach centres on four key pillars: proactively tackling cyber risks to society, fostering diversity within the cybersecurity workforce, upholding environmental stewardship, and championing responsible business practices throughout its value chain. In alignment with its sustainability ethos and solidarity with global initiatives, Fortinet became a signatory to the UN Global Compact in 2023, adhering steadfastly to its principles on human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Furthermore, Fortinet’s sustained commitment to sustainability garnered prestigious recognition in the 2023 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) World and North America indices for the second consecutive year, reinforcing the company’s unwavering dedication to shaping a more sustainable future.
The 2023 Sustainability Report from Fortinet draws upon established frameworks such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, the Sustainability Accountability Standards Board (SASB) Standards, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within its pages, the report meticulously outlines Fortinet’s progress and metrics across eight key priority areas, encompassing vital themes such as fostering innovation for secure internet, safeguarding information security and privacy, mitigating product environmental impacts, managing environmental concerns and climate change effects, championing diversity, equity, and inclusion, addressing the cybersecurity skills gap, upholding business ethics, and promoting responsible product utilisation.
Fortinet’s 2023 Sustainability Report is a testament to its unwavering commitment to cybersecurity excellence and environmental responsibility, setting a benchmark for industry peers and reaffirming its pledge to drive positive change on a global scale.