Fortigate 7.0.9 ^new^
For those on the older 6.4 branch, 7.0.9 serves as an excellent entry point into the 7.0 ecosystem, offering a stable environment with advanced features like Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) tags and improved fabric integration. 0.9?
While 7.0.9 was not a "critical CVE patch" release (like 7.0.7 which patched CVE-2022-40684), it did include backported fixes for CVE-2022-42475 (heap-based buffer overflow). fortigate 7.0.9
The rule of thumb in networking is: