Both companies said the expansion will see the companies bring a new, fully unified secure networking offering to the Australian market – combining Fortinet’s leadership in secure networking with Macquarie Telecom’s Australian-based engineering and managed network performance expertise.

The result of the collaboration hopes to be a single vendor, single platform experience designed for mid-market and enterprise organisations. These businesses are looking for stronger protection, simplified operations, cost savings and predictable, scalable service delivery.

“Fortinet is proud to expand its long-standing partnership with Macquarie Telecom to bring a unified secure networking solution purpose-built for Australian organisations. By combining global innovation in secure networking with Macquarie Telecom’s locally delivered expertise, customers gain a simpler, more resilient and more secure way to operate their networks,” said John Milionis, channel sales director, Australia and New Zealand at Fortinet.

“Together, we’re helping organisations reduce complexity and strengthen their cyber resilience as they scale.”

As one of Fortinet’s first partners in Australia, Macquarie Telecom has developed the skillset needed to deliver secure networks using Fortinet services. Its unique ability is in seamlessly connecting and safeguarding entire digital environments under one umbrella.

The collaboration across telecommunications and security has also produced a new secure networking (Secure Access Service Edge/SASE) offering. This is designed to bring together secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), on-premises inline next-generation firewall, security service edge (SSE) cloud-delivered security, switching and Wi-Fi into a single solution.

Both companies said the end-to-end solution will consolidate network security, connectivity and cloud access under one partner and platform. This will remove the need to switch between multiple consoles, licensing models or providers.

“When sovereignty, accountability and fast response are critical, customers shouldn’t have to choose between global cybersecurity capability and local support. We deliver both – and few others can,” said Luke Clifton, group executive at Macquarie Telecom.

The news comes as Australian organisations face rising threat activity and increasing regulatory pressures, which has left mid-market teams struggling to manage complex hybrid networks alongside resilience.

Macquarie Telecom and Fortinet’s reinforced partnership is designed to help Australian organisations address one of the most persistent challenges: building secure, high-performance networks that can keep pace with cloud adoption, hybrid work and tightening regulatory expectations.

It could also mean that businesses across the country don’t need to choose between innovation and security – they can have everything through one platform.

Clifton added: “Our mission has always been to identify best-in-market technologies and make them accessible, manageable and secure for Australian businesses. Fortinet brings depth in security-driven networking and a full-stack architecture built from the ground up for protection and performance.

“By combining that with our locally based expert teams and 24/7 operations, we are delivering a unified platform that gives customers a simpler, stronger and more accountable way to secure their networks. Meanwhile we’re preserving customer choice and ensuring they can adopt the solutions that best fit their needs.”

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