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FortiAuthenticator Cloud – End of Order Announcements

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FortiAuthenticator Cloud – End of Order Announcements                                            2nd July 2026

 

It has been announced on support website (https://support.fortinet.com) that FortiAuthenticator Cloud (formally known as FortiTrust) has come to End Of Order (EOO) as per date below. Customers are encouraged to move to FortiIdentity Cloud (FIC) for SaaS-based identity solution.

 

Replacement SKUs are as follows:

Current SKU

Description

Replacement SKU

Description

FC2-10-ACCLD-511-02-DD

Cloud-managed Identity User Subscription including 24x7 FortiCare for 100-499 Users.

FC1-10-IDCLD-445-02-DD

Annual, per-user, cloud-managed FortiIdentity subscription for 25-499 users (includes 125 SMS credits per user and FortiCare Premium Support per year).

FC3-10-ACCLD-511-02-DD

Cloud-managed Identity User Subscription including 24x7 FortiCare for 500-1,999 Users.

FC2-10-IDCLD-445-02-DD

Annual, per-user, cloud-managed FortiIdentity subscription for

500-1999 users(includes 125 SMS credits per user and FortiCare Premium Support per year)

FC4-10-ACCLD-511-02-DD

Cloud-managed Identity User Subscription including 24x7 FortiCare for 2,000-9,999 Users.

FC3-10-IDCLD-445-02-DD

Annual, per-user, cloud-managed FortiIdentity subscription for

2000-9999 users (includes 125 SMS credits per user and FortiCare Premium Support per year)

FC5-10-ACCLD-511-02-DD

Cloud-managed Identity User Subscription including 24x7 FortiCare for 10,000+ Users.

FC4-10-IDCLD-445-02-DD

Annual, per-user, cloud-managed FortiIdentity subscription 10,000 or more users (includes 125 SMS credits per user and FortiCare Premium Support per year)

 

Customers has a few options when evaluating/deciding to purchase/extend FortiAuthenticator Cloud:

 

  1. Purchase/Extend existing FortiAuthenticator Cloud contract before the End Of Order date below.

 

Product Life Cycle Milestones

 

End of Orders (EOO)

30Sep2026

Last date to purchase new maintenance contract

30Sep2026

Last date to extend an existing maintenance contract

30Sep2026

Product support expires

30Sep2027

 

Support for FortiAuthenticator Cloud will expire on 30 Sept 2027, or until the end of existing/renewed contract, whichever date is later. Additional information about the Fortinet life cycle policy can be found in the Fortinet Life Cycle Policy document, found in the Fortinet Support Portal at: http://support.fortinet.com/.

 

  1. Move to FortiIdentity Cloud depending on the feature set used.

A table below illustrate the main features difference between FortiAuthenticator Cloud and FortiIdentity Cloud. For further assistance please contact your local system engineering team for details.

 

 

FortiAuthenticator Cloud

FortiIdentity Cloud

(PaaS)

(SaaS)

General

Managed by

Managed by Fortinet

Managed by Fortinet

(Platform aaS) – hosted VM

(Software aaS) - Cloud native

License

Per user subscription

Per user subscription

Point of Presence

Single Region DC with DR

Multi-region DCs (for data sovereignty/geo-closest) with in-region DR

Scalability

Limited

Cloud Native

MFA support (FTM / SMS / email)

 
Includes SMS and email
FTM purchase separately
Hardware tokens purchase separately"

Includes SMS, email and FTM
Hardware tokens purchase separately

Adapative Authentication
(e.g. skip OTP from known device/trusted subnet)

 ✔

 ✔

Passwordless Authentication (FIDO, passkeys)

✔

✔

Fortinet Fabric Authentication

FortiSASE Authentication

 ✔

 ✔

FortiGate / FortiClient - VPN

 ✔

 ✔

FortiGate / FortiClient - FSSO

 ✔

Roadmap

FortiClient ZTNA / 2FA

 ✔

 ✔

FortiManager / FortiAnalyzer - 2FA & SSO

 ✔

 ✔

Features / Protocols

SAML
(Security Assertion Markup Language) for SSO

 ✔

 ✔

Oauth 2.0 / OIDC

 ✔

 ✔

SCIM Client and Server

SCIM client & server

SCIM server only

RADIUS including RADSEC  Support

 ✔

Roadmap (26.3 ETA end of July)

PAM support (Privilege Access Management)

✘

Roadmap

Auth Proxy (RADIUS / LDAP)

Roadmap

 ✔

802.1X Authentication

 ✔

Roadmap

Certificate Management

 ✔

Roadmap

 

created as of FortiAuthenticator-Cloud 26.2.b

created as of Fortiidentity Cloud 26.2.a

 

  1. Customers are welcomed to run FortiAuthenticator on public cloud. FortiAuthenticator support supports AWS, Azure, OCI & GCP (KVM) and Alibaba Cloud.

 

Best regards,

Fortinet Product Management Team