The DP World Tour today announced a multi-year partnership extension with Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security. As Official Cybersecurity Partner, Fortinet will continue to provide its innovative security solutions to golf’s global Tour until 2028.
Since joining as Official Cybersecurity Partner for the 2022 season, Fortinet has supported the DP World Tour’s digital transformation agenda. The Tour hosts one of the largest and most complex “Bring Your Own Device” environments in the sports industry, with up to 30,000 people attending tournaments each day across a 42-tournament season in 25 countries in 2026.
The Fortinet Security Fabric, a comprehensive platform of automated, integrated solutions powered by advanced threat intelligence, continues to protect player, fan, and stakeholder data across tournaments and digital platforms.
Building on this foundation, the Tour has extended protection to remote and mobile users through FortiSASE, seamlessly integrated with the Security Fabric for instant coverage. As part of Unified SASE, FortiSASE combines AI-driven insights and end-to-end Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) to deliver an exceptional user experience.
The next phase of the partnership will introduce the Fortinet Security Operations (SecOps) platform, enabling advanced threat detection, automation, and GenAI-powered response.
Beyond technology, the DP World Tour also invests in cybersecurity awareness by leveraging Fortinet’s Training Institute offerings to educate employees and strengthen resilience.
The Fortinet Threat Score, which showcases the field’s average score to par on a hole so fans can track how the world’s best professionals are faring, will continue across global television broadcasts and the DP World Tour website and social media channels. As an Official Marketing Partner, Fortinet branding will continue to feature at high-profile events and Fortinet will become an Official Partner to six tournaments on the DP World Tour schedule.
Speaking about today’s announcement Joe Sarno, EVP International Sales of Fortinet, said: “Fortinet is proud to extend our partnership with the DP World Tour, reinforcing our shared commitment to technology, innovation and security. Through the power of the Fortinet Security Fabric, we’re helping to secure the Tour’s expanding digital ecosystem, ensuring that every event around the world is built on a trusted and resilient foundation. This partnership showcases how Fortinet’s industry-leading cybersecurity solutions enable organisations to drive digital innovation securely.”
Michael Cole, Chief Technology Officer at the DP World Tour, added: “The Tour has invested in a wide range of digital products, utilising the vast array of data points that we collect during each round that keep fans up to date at all times. As technology advances quicken, we see the landscape of cyber threats gathering pace too, and our extended partnership with Fortinet will enable us to further assess new capabilities and ensure we remain proactive in assessing our needs and enhancing our cyber protection”.
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About Fortinet
Fortinet is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and today we deliver cybersecurity everywhere our customers need it with the largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products. Well over half a million customers trust Fortinet’s solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. The Fortinet Training Institute, one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry, is dedicated to making cybersecurity training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Collaboration with esteemed organizations from both the public and private sectors, including Computer Emergency Response Teams (“CERTS”), government entities, and academia, is a fundamental aspect of Fortinet’s commitment to enhance cyber resilience globally. FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s elite threat intelligence and research organization, develops and utilizes leading-edge machine learning and AI technologies to provide customers with timely and consistently top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.
About the DP World Tour
The DP World Tour is the main men’s professional golf tour of the European Tour group.
As golf’s global tour, we showcase global talent in global destinations and use our platform to build, entertain and connect our global community.
GLOBAL TALENT: We provide pathways and a platform for the leading international talent, bringing together golfing icons, national heroes and emerging stars from around the world.
GLOBAL DESTINATIONS: We stage tournaments in iconic cities and locations around the world and each week we celebrate and showcase the rich diversity of the courses, cities and cultures we visit.
GLOBAL COMMUNITY: We build, entertain and connect communities through our commitment to innovation, creative content and having a positive social and environmental impact.
Our 2026 Global Schedule features 42 tournaments in 25 different countries and comprises three distinct phases: five ‘Global Swings’, the ‘Back 9’ and the ‘DP World Tour Play-Offs’. It features five Rolex Series events – the premium category of events on the DP World Tour – and four Major Championships, all of which count towards the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World, the Tour’s season-long competition which concludes at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
DP World, the leading provider of global smart end-to-end supply chain and logistics solutions, has been the title partner of the DP World Tour since the start of the 2022 season, the Tour’s 50th season following its formation in 1972.
We also enjoy the support of many of the world’s leading business brands with DP World, Rolex, Aldar, AWS, BMW, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Emirates, Fortinet, Nexo and Vestas as Official Partners.
About the European Tour group
The European Tour group administers the DP World Tour, the HotelPlanner Tour, the Legends Tour and the G4D Tour and, as the Managing Partner of Ryder Cup Europe LLP, stages golf’s greatest team contest, the Ryder Cup, in partnership with the PGA of America.
The European Tour group has Strategic Partnerships with the PGA TOUR, the Sunshine Tour and Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, the China Golf Association (CGA), Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO), the Korea Professional Golfers’ Association (KPGA), and the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India. These partnerships provide global pathways for players from across the world to compete internationally on the DP World Tour, the main men’s professional golf Tour of the European Tour group which was established in 1972, as well as the HotelPlanner Tour.
