For the 2025 ranking, Gartner also added Zscaler, Check Point and SonicWall to its Magic Quadrant for secure access service edge (SASE) for the first time.
Fortinet ascended into the “leaders” category for Gartner’s 2025 SASE Magic Quadrant, joining Palo Alto Networks, Netskope and Cato Networks in gaining the sought-after top ranking.
Meanwhile, three major cybersecurity vendors — Zscaler, Check Point Software Technologies and SonicWall — were added to Gartner’s annual SASE (secure access service edge) ranking for the first time as part of the latest Magic Quadrant report.
Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms recognized a total of 11 vendors.
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The research firm’s ranking continues to focus on providers of “single-vendor” SASE, which deliver SSE (security service edge) capabilities tightly integrated with SD-WAN to offer secure connectivity for users and devices to applications.
In last year’s SASE Magic Quadrant ranking, Fortinet had appeared in the “challengers” quadrant. Gartner analysts wrote in the new report that Fortinet’s Unified SASE platform is now poised to gain market share thanks to competitive pricing and “strong SD-WAN/branch firewall incumbency.”
“Fortinet’s overall viability is above average in the SASE platform market compared with other vendors in this research, based primarily on its corporate financial health,” the Gartner analysts wrote.
In May, Fortinet disclosed that its SASE business had seen annual recurring revenue jump nearly 26 percent from a year earlier to reach $1.15 billion as of the end of March.
For Gartner’s 2025 SASE Magic Quadrant ranking, Palo Alto Networks was once again named a “leader” — a ranking held by the cybersecurity giant during all three editions of the report. Netskope and Cato Networks, meanwhile, were each ranked as SASE “leaders” for the second year in a row by Gartner.
For the “challengers” quadrant in this year’s SASE Magic Quadrant ranking, two vendors, Cisco and Versa Networks, were selected by Gartner analysts.
Zscaler made its debut on the SASE Magic Quadrant in the “visionaries” quadrant, joining Cloudflare, which moved up from its prior ranking as a “niche player” in the category.
Check Point and SonicWall debuted on the SASE Magic Quadrant in the “niche players” category, joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
One vendor, Forcepoint, was dropped from the Magic Quadrant as a result of exiting the SASE platforms market, Gartner analysts said in the report.
Honorable mentions were awarded by Gartner to five companies — Aryaka, Barracuda, Ericsson, Huawei and iboss — which offer “relevant technology” for SASE but didn’t meet the criteria for inclusion by the report’s cutoff date of April 1, 2025, the firm said.
Gartner noted that the 2025 edition of the report, entitled Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms, has been adjusted from the title of prior years that emphasized the delivery of a “single-vendor” SASE offering. The update more accurately reflects current market terminology, the firm said.
