Carl Windsor on vendor responsibility
From Suzanne Spaulding & Carl Windsor | Cube Conversation · · SiliconANGLEtheCUBE
“Fortinet, last year, shipped 50% of all the worldwide firewalls, so we have a duty of care to our customers.”
On , Carl Windsor, Chief Information Security Officer at Fortinet, spoke about vendor responsibility during Suzanne Spaulding & Carl Windsor | Cube Conversation on SiliconANGLEtheCUBE.
About Carl Windsor
In a December 2023 Cube Conversation, Carl Windsor, Senior Vice President of Product Technology & Solutions at Fortinet, discussed the company’s approach to transparency in cybersecurity. He stated that Fortinet shipped 50% of all worldwide firewalls the previous year and described a "duty of care" to customers. Windsor said the company discovered 83% of the vulnerabilities it published were its own, adding that Fortinet does not hide issues and provides customers with information needed for risk-based decisions. He described the principle that "sunlight is the greatest disinfectant" and said the company works with outside partners on responsible disclosure. Windsor acknowledged that customers find the pace of change "a little bit frenetic" and suggested that vendors can help by offering automatic upgrades and virtual patching technologies to give customers "breathing space" during upgrade processes. He emphasized that "radical transparency" is important for giving customers the information they need to make decisions about their security posture.