Cloud adoption isn’t a future goal — it’s a present-day reality. Whether scaling workloads, enabling remote teams, or modernizing infrastructure, the cloud offers flexibility and performance that on-prem environments alone can’t match. The real challenge lies in integrating these environments securely and efficiently, especially when multiple platforms, applications, and endpoints are involved.
At Dark Networks, we help organizations build secure and flexible cloud strategies by leveraging two of the industry’s most trusted ecosystems: Fortinet and Microsoft Azure. The result? Integrated architectures that are scalable, secure, and built for operational resilience.
Organizations often face similar roadblocks when transitioning to or expanding their presence in the cloud:
A modern cloud strategy is more than just choosing where your workloads live. It’s about combining the right technologies and frameworks to build a secure, scalable, and adaptable foundation.
Fortinet’s Security Fabric unifies threat protection, identity control, traffic visibility, and automation across hybrid environments. With offerings like FortiGate NGFWs, FortiAnalyzer, FortiWeb Cloud WAF, and FortiNDR, organizations can:
Microsoft Azure provides a comprehensive cloud platform for compute, identity, networking, and endpoint management.
Key services include:
Fortinet has deep integrations with Azure across:
This combined stack creates a zero-trust-ready environment with uniform policy enforcement across endpoints, users, and cloud workloads.
As organizations decentralize their workforce and adopt SaaS and multi-cloud models, traditional perimeter-based security quickly becomes obsolete. Fortinet’s SASE and ZTNA frameworks extend cloud security and access control to wherever users, devices, and apps reside.
With FortiSASE, businesses can deliver security-as-a-service that’s tightly integrated with Fortinet’s existing SD-WAN, endpoint, and identity solutions—offering secure access to Azure-hosted applications, virtual desktops, and public cloud workloads without the complexity of legacy VPN infrastructure.
Fortinet ZTNA builds on this by applying granular access policies to specific applications, ensuring that access is granted based on identity, device posture, and real-time context — not just network location. When paired with Microsoft Entra and Azure AD, ZTNA helps enforce a robust, end-to-end zero trust strategy across your hybrid environment.
IHG, one of the world’s leading hotel companies, set out to modernize its global network infrastructure, replacing an aging hub-and-spoke architecture with a more agile and secure SD-WAN framework. By deploying Fortinet Secure SD-WAN across thousands of hotel properties, IHG converged networking and security functions into a single solution. With centralized management through FortiManager and enhanced analytics via FortiAnalyzer, their IT team significantly improved visibility and operational control across cloud-connected environments, including workloads in Microsoft Azure. The result was a 25% reduction in networking costs and a projected 60% boost in IT team efficiency.
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Steelcase, a global leader in workplace innovation, needed a secure and standardized framework to manage its hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and Microsoft Azure. Leveraging the Fortinet Security Fabric, Steelcase gained centralized control over access policies, threat detection, and application security across environments. This cohesive architecture empowered their IT organization to scale cloud adoption while maintaining consistent protection and visibility across business units and regions.
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The partnership between Fortinet and Microsoft Azure delivers seamless integration across enterprise-grade security services and cloud-native infrastructure. Through offerings available on the Azure Marketplace — including FortiGate NGFWs, FortiWeb Cloud WAF, FortiAnalyzer, and integrations with Azure Virtual WAN, Microsoft Sentinel, and Entra — organizations gain policy consistency, real-time telemetry, and automated defense mechanisms across their entire hybrid or multi-cloud footprint. For partners like Dark Networks, this synergy enables the rapid deployment of secure, scalable architectures tailored to modern operational demands.
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Whether you're migrating critical workloads to Azure, modernizing your network with SD-WAN, or implementing a zero-trust architecture, the integration of Fortinet and Microsoft technologies gives you a flexible, scalable, and secure foundation.
At Dark Networks, we help organizations bridge the gap between cloud transformation and enterprise-grade security. From design and deployment to ongoing optimization, we tailor every solution to meet your strategic objectives.
Whether you're planning your first Azure migration or looking to harden access controls around existing workloads, we can help you take the next step. Let's start the conversation.