Deployment overview
This deployment guide empowers Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) to enhance their service offerings by leveraging Fortinet’s FortiSASE cloud services for their SASE customer base. With support for multitenancy, centralized management, detailed analytics, and robust automation and orchestration capabilities, MSSPs can deliver a differentiated managed service that meets the complex needs of their customer base.
This deployment guide introduces the foundation for a comprehensive framework for MSSPs to configure, scale, and manage multitenant FortiSASE deployments for their customers effectively using the following FortiCloud services:
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FortiCloud Organizations: Enables MSSPs to establish an Organization Unit (OU) structure that efficiently organizes each customer’s FortiCloud accounts into distinct OUs or sub-OUs, scaling flexibly to meet unique customer requirements.
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FortiCloud Identity & Access Management (IAM): Provides secure, role-based access control, allowing MSSPs to manage internal teams by assigning appropriate permissions to users, enabling specific operations on customers’ FortiSASE tenants.
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FortiCloud Asset Management: Streamlines the onboarding of new customers by applying FortiSASE entitlements and helps manage licenses, contracts, and entitlements for existing customers.
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FortiSASE MSSP Portal: Delivers a single, unified GUI interface for overseeing and managing FortiSASE environments, enhancing operational efficiency and providing centralized visibility for MSSP operations teams.
The deployment guide also covers essential considerations, configuration options, and best practices for implementing Fortinet’s Unified SASE solution, to deliver effective MSSP operations.
Intended audience
This deployment guide is aimed for technical audiences such as network and security architects / engineers as well as design / product personnel looking to deploy a managed FortiSASE solution for an MSSP.
About this guide
The deployment guide uses an example to demonstrate different steps involved in configuring FortiCloud services that assist MSSPs to manage multitenant FortiSASE deployments. Additionally, it provides insights on how an MSSP can efficiently monitor, configure, and manage their customers’ FortiSASE instances by using the FortiSASE MSSP Portal. It does not go into advanced topics such as automation and orchestration.