Hughes Named Fortinet’s 2025 Managed Security Service Provider Partner of the Year
Award recognizes Hughes for delivering innovative managed security services and driving customer success with Fortinet solutions.
GERMANTOWN, Md., [March 17th, 2026] – Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), today announced it has been named Fortinet’s 2025 Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Partner of the Year. The award recognizes Hughes for its leadership in delivering advanced managed security services and helping enterprise customers strengthen cybersecurity across hybrid, cloud, and distributed environments.
The recognition highlights the strength of the more than 20-year partnership between Hughes and Fortinet, during which the companies have worked together to help enterprises modernize their networking and security architectures. Building on this collaboration, Hughes recently partnered with Fortinet through its Offer Development Team (ODT) program to support the full go-to-market launch of Hughes Managed SASE powered by FortiSASE, a fully managed service that combines Fortinet’s cloud-delivered security platform with Hughes consulting, deployment, and lifecycle management expertise.
“We are honored to be recognized as Fortinet’s MSSP Partner of the Year,” said Colleen Caruso, Vice President of Enterprise Managed Services at Hughes. “Our long-standing partnership with Fortinet allows us to deliver integrated security services that help enterprises simplify security operations, strengthen protection across distributed networks, and confidently support digital transformation.”
Hughes supports a diverse enterprise customer base with complex, distributed operations across industries including retail, healthcare, financial services, hospitality, and energy. Many of these organizations operate across hundreds or thousands of locations and rely on secure, resilient connectivity to support cloud adoption and hybrid workforces. By combining Fortinet technologies with Hughes managed services model, enterprises gain access to advanced security capabilities supported by end-to-end lifecycle management and 24×7 monitoring and support.
The partnership has continued to gain momentum as enterprises increasingly turn to managed service providers to help simplify complex security environments and operationalize modern architectures such as SASE.
To learn more about Hughes, please visit https://www.hughes.com.