Part of the 25 Cybersecurity Campaigns That Broke Through index.
Fortinet ranks #15 in The 25 Cybersecurity Campaigns That Actually Broke Through in 2026, an Everything-PR review of the year's most effective cybersecurity marketing efforts. Fortinet's placement is anchored to a single named campaign: its Cyber Range Events. The index frames Fortinet's entry through the lens of one of its core cross-brand observations about cybersecurity marketing in 2026, that experience beats explanation every time. Fortinet sits between Okta at #14 and Wiz at #16 in the ranking.
What the 2026 Cybersecurity Campaigns Review Covers
The 25 Cybersecurity Campaigns That Actually Broke Through in 2026 evaluates cybersecurity marketing work that registered with audiences during 2026. The index does not publish a numeric score scale, weighted scoring dimensions, or a defined publication panel. Instead, it identifies campaigns that exemplify a set of cross-brand patterns the review draws out of the year's work, and assigns each brand a rank against that field.
Among those patterns: the best marketing in cyber is now teaching, not selling; credibility now comes from visibility, not polish; proof beats promise; and humans trust humans. Fortinet's entry is mapped directly to one of those patterns: experience beats explanation every time.
Why Fortinet Ranks #15
Fortinet's #15 placement in the index rests on its Cyber Range Events campaign. The index pairs that campaign with the observation that experience beats explanation every time, placing Fortinet inside the cohort of 2026 cybersecurity marketers whose work was recognized for letting audiences encounter risk directly rather than being talked through it.
The index does not enumerate further Fortinet campaigns beyond Cyber Range Events, and it does not provide a numeric score for the brand. The rank itself, #15 of 25, situates Fortinet in the middle of a field led by NordVPN at #1, CrowdStrike at #2, and Palo Alto Networks at #3, and that also includes Cisco at #4, Microsoft at #7, Cloudflare at #9, and direct cybersecurity-platform peers such as Check Point Software Technologies at #12 and Zscaler at #20.
How Cyber Range Events Fits the 2026 Pattern
The index's framing of Fortinet, experience beats explanation every time, sits alongside related cross-brand patterns the review identifies for 2026: cybersecurity marketing is no longer about selling fear but about demonstrating control, and experience creates understanding because seeing risk changes behavior. Fortinet's Cyber Range Events campaign is the named example the index uses to illustrate that experiential thesis in practice.
The review does not characterize Cyber Range Events beyond linking it to that pattern. It does not, for instance, attach an audience size, a media outcome, or a publication panel to the campaign. The recognition is the placement itself: Cyber Range Events is one of the 25 cybersecurity efforts the index says actually broke through in 2026.
Outside the index, Fortinet has used 2026 to lean further into both AI-driven security and experiential, event-led marketing. The company introduced FortiOS 8.0 with new innovations for AI and modern networks, deepened its integration with NVIDIA to secure enterprise AI at scale via FortiAIGate, and advanced its security operations platform with unified SOC, agentic AI, managed detection and response, and expanded endpoint security.
Fortinet has also published its 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report, which the company says reveals how AI is accelerating attacks, and its 2026 Cybersecurity Skills Gap Global Research Report, which states that 73% of organizations say boards are putting cybersecurity as a high business priority. Fortinet was recognized as a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms, and the company says it is the only vendor named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for SD-WAN for seven straight years.
The events calendar reinforces the experiential angle the index points to. Fortinet is hosting its 2026 OT Cybersecurity Summit from June 9 to June 11, 2026, framed around Risk to Resilience, Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, alongside participation in Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026, the SANS ICS Summit, and Black Hat USA 2026.
Where Fortinet Sits in the Broader Cybersecurity Story
The patterns the index draws across all 25 ranked campaigns help locate Fortinet's position. Trust is the product: marketing is no longer separate from credibility, it is credibility. Simplicity is power. Proof beats promise. The best campaigns meet audiences where they already are. Fortinet's named entry, an event-format campaign that lets audiences experience risk, is consistent with the index's repeated point that 2026's most effective cybersecurity marketing relied on demonstration rather than description.
Fortinet describes itself as securing over 700,000 enterprises, service providers, and government organizations worldwide, with customer references in the company's materials including IHG Hotels & Resorts, Jersey Mike's, the British Columbia Automobile Association, and Sidel. The index does not tie those customer stories to its ranking; the basis on which Fortinet appears at #15 is Cyber Range Events.
Heading into the next refresh, Fortinet's #15 position reflects recognition for a single named experiential campaign within a field of 25. Whether that placement holds, rises, or drifts will depend on whether Fortinet's next wave of work, much of it now organized around FortiAI, the 2026 OT Cybersecurity Summit, and its expanded SecOps platform, continues to fit the patterns the index rewards.
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