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| Oct 6, 2008 |
Unified Threat Management (UTM) outgrowing end point security segment: IDC
The Unified Threat Management (UTM) market has already started to outgrow the point security solution segment, said analyst firm IDC.
MIS Asia |
| Sept 30, 2008 |
Special Report: Antivirus & Security
Fortinet was profiled in four key articles discussing business vulnerability, good antivirus packages, using education and IT policy to provide safeguards and the emergence of a new criminal tactic in this special report segment. Jens Andreassen, vice president at Fortinet advocates: "Regulatory and best-practice guidelines place an enormous due diligence burden on IT executives. Not only must the latest technologies be implemented for dealing with potential attacks, but executives must prove that all is being done to protect sensitive data and networks. To add to the burden, traffic and events must be logged for audits to prove compliance and also for forensic operations, which are critical to discerning and quickly remedying weaknesses in the network security regime." According to Derek Manky, security research at Fortinet, security in a large enterprise can be analogous to a chain, if there is one weak link (through an employee), the enterprise may be at risk. This may be through an innocent mistake, as most cases are, or through actual malicious intent.
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong |
| Sept 18, 2008 |
Juniper and Fortinet face big battle in the high-end UTM market
Juniper and Fortinet are starting to invade the high-end UTM market, targeting the carrier, MSSP and the data centre space with SRX 5000 and FortiGate-5000 series respectively. According to John Lee, Fortinet's Channel Manger, "Through the FortiGate series, we provide Firewall, IPS, AV, Switching, Routing, Antispam and URL filtering. Fortinet also provides five virtual domains without separate license." The most notable thing is Fortinet's ability to provide AV and IPS pattern update. Indeed, there will be severe competition in the high-end UTM market between Fortinet and Juniper.
IT Daily |
| Sept 15, 2008 |
UTM is Well-Positioned for Great Development in China
According to Ken Xie, Founder, President and CEO of Fortinet, the UTM appliance is fast replacing the firewall and has become the most adopted network security device outside China. He explained why the Chinese UTM market is at a market inflection point. First, China follows the global market trend, which has evolved from firewall to UTM. Second, the application of multi-core technology has greatly improved the UTM appliance performance. Third, the rise of MSSPs has also propelled the UTM appliance into mainstream.
China Computer World |
| Sept 5, 2008 |
Security expert explains the biggest hacker theft in America
Derek Manky, Fortinet's Security Research Engineer, explains how hackers intrude the wireless network and the security vulnerabilities exploited by them. He also elaborates on the reason why it took such a long time to solve this case and provided advice on appropriate security solutions to protect against such threats. Derek added that the hackers had broken the encryption to the wireless network that was secured with WEP and that it was this encryption protocol made it easier for hackers to gain access into the protected network.
www.ccidnet.com |
| Sept 2008 |
Fortinet: UTM is a good weapon for MSSP
According to Ken Xie, Founder, President and CEO of Fortinet, the company is the UTM market leader with product breadth and depth, global channels network and industry cutting edge security subscription. Xie mentioned that Fortinet has received 11 patents, 6 ICSA certifications, government certifications and Virus Bulletin 100 approved. These patents are Fortinet's key to success in the market for the FortiGate product line and the company has also been awarded the "Global Competitive Strategy Leadership of the Year" as a best practice award for enabling a profitable network based managed security service. Fortinet has also launched the FortiGate 5000 series, an enterprise product suite for end-to-end 10-Gigabit multi-threat security.
Telecom World China |
| Sept 2008 |
Bracing for Tough Times
According to Eryin Halmen, Country Manager of Malaysia & Brunei, network security consolidation could hardly have arrived at a better time as IT professionals concerned with security are finding themselves at the center of a perfect storm caused by the convergence of three "threatening" conditions.
Majalah PC, Malaysia |
| Sept 2008 |
Management Practice - A Pragmatic Approach to IT Security
Ever more sophisticated threats, increasing compliance requirements, and evolving applications continually expose new gaps in enterprise network security. Due to management issues, adding more point solutions is not always the best answer. Jens Andreassen, Vice President of Sales, APAC, Fortinet, looks at how enterprises can perform a pragmatic security gap analysis with an eye to selecting the right vendor to help improve network security without multiplying management complexity.
Capital CEO, Hong Kong |
| Sept 2008 |
What is Virtualization?
The article talks about the virtualization of FortiGate, Virtual-Chassis (Juniper), VIPRION (F5 Networks), VSS5000 (Nortel), SmartConnect (Blade Network Technologies). It also mentions the virtualization function in FortiGate and provides in-depth explanation on using the function.
Nikkei Network, Japan |
| Aug 27, 2008 |
UTM Integrates Multiple Security Functions
Enterprises have a surging demand for security solutions. At the CIO Executive Summit, Flora Chan, Regional Sales Manager, Hong Kong and Macau, Fortinet will talk about the latest cyber threats to enterprises and UTM appliance functions. The article cited spam, bogus sites and social engineering attacks targeting social networking sites as threats to watch out for.
Economic Times, Hong Kong |
| Aug 25, 2008 |
New Era for Leading Security Manufacturers
As enterprises and government place increasing importance on network security in 2008, market demand for such solutions increase as well. The Olympics will bring direct market growth and opportunities. According to Jens Andreassen, Fortinet's Vice President for Asia Pacific, the Olympics would push the existing communications networks to its limit due to end user demand, which creates a need for enterprises and carriers to adopt greater level of security coverage. In addition, promoting more internet usage will result in more opportunities for technology vendors.
Computer Business Information, China |
| Aug 14, 2008 |
Computer users and enterprises face possible network security challenges during Olympics.
Be careful of hackers when watching the Olympics live!
Economic Daily, Taiwan |
| Aug 13, 2008 |
Fortinet preaches Olympics security policies for offices
Fortinet, the security vendor, is concerned about enterprise security threats posed by the Olympics. Chris Simmons, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Fortinet said that the Olympics will likely create spikes in Internet traffic and put corporate networks to the test.
Economic Times, Hong Kong |
| Aug 9, 2008 |
Fortinet's value proposition for Japanese carrier customers
Spokesperson Mr. K. Miyanishi talks about FortiGate's product value proposition for Japanese carrier customers.
Yahoo! News, Japan |
| Aug 8, 2008 |
Justin Lee, Country Manager of Fortinet Korea talks about being enterprise-ready during the Olympics
With the 2008 Beijing Olympics round the corner, security experts are warning that hackers are increasingly prone to attack internet users. Spam is also created with social networking sites and blogs becoming popular. Thus, enterprises and organizations should strengthen its security education and Fortinet has suggested ten best practice steps to beef up security during the Olympics.
ZDNet, Korea |
| Aug 6, 2008 |
How Should Enterprise IT Teams Develop and Implement the Best Online Security Solution during Olympics?
This article provides a summary of how businesses can prepare themselves for potential "August Madness" and what attacks are lurking on the wires that computer users should be aware of during the games. It also provides Fortinet's best practices for online safety during the Olympics and beyond.
www.ccw.com.cn |
| Aug 6, 2008 |
Beyond UTM
Fortinet's Jens Andreassen, Vice President for Asia Pacific Sales provides an insight into why companies are now turning to purpose-built network security through an integrated and consolidated Unified Threat Management (UTM) approach.
HK Economic Times |
| Aug 5, 2008 |
IT Teams Countdown to Olympics - "When Michael Phelps takes the medal stand, will he take your network down too?"
Derek Manky, a well-renowned network security expert at Fortinet shares Fortinet's best practices for online safety at your workplace.
SC Cyberworld Online |
| Aug 4, 2008 |
Clearing potential Olympics network hurdle
Benjamin Teh, Fortinet's sales director for Southeast Asia, said businesses should instill clear policies on Internet usage, and ensure that employees are aware and understand the guidelines and consequences of not observing these policies. Companies that use filtering tools to control Web site access should inform their employees what types of sites will be blocked, Teh said in an e-mail interview.
ZDNet Asia (online) |
| Aug 2008 |
Achieve acceleration with Fortinet FortiGate-310B using ASIC technology
Feature article on FortiGate-310B features and functions
Kogyogijyutsu Shimbun |
| July 31, 2008 |
Deploying virtualized Unified Threat Management
Sugawara-san explains how to optimize virtualized UTM solutions as a contributed white paper.
@IT (IT Online News) |
| July 25, 2008 |
Database security is a business necessity
According to Justin Lee, Fortinet Korea country manager, "Database security should be considered in a management framework and applied in a systematic process, rather than from a technical perspective only. It needs to be deployed as a security system that cuts across the enterprise as a whole." He added that database security is not only about controlling database access but should be seen as an enterprise level, strategy business management tool.
Electronic Times, Korea |
| July 15, 2008 |
UTM Security Solutions, a Pragmatic Approach to IT Security
IT executives managing network security face complex challenges on a daily basis as threats become increasingly sophisticated, compliance burden increase and more vulnerabilities are exposed by new applications and technologies. This article takes a pragmatic approach to IT security with UTM security solutions and explains how enterprises can perform a pragmatic security gap analysis to improve network security in a simple manner by choosing the right vendor.
www.ccw.com.cn, China |
| July 8, 2008 |
[Special/High-performance Data Center] Virtualization Is Heating up
The enthusiasm for virtualization is hot among network vendors. Virtualization only interested in server or storage vendors so far. But recently thanks to the continuous effort for the development of virtualization technology among network vendors, new virtualization technologies are announced. Fortinet recently announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company three additional patents for network virtualization.
Digital Daily (IT Online), Korea |
| July 2, 2008 |
World of Warcraft Trojan spreads from Asia
Password-stealing programs affecting online games such as World of Warcraft accounted for almost 13 per cent of malware activity detected in a recent survey.
infomatics |
| July 2008 |
The Evolution of UTM
The evolution of security systems and software to the present Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance-type solutions is really a history of an "arms-race" between hackers, crackers and virus authors, and security vendors.
MAX IT Magazine, Malaysia |
| July 2008 |
Enhance Security, Cost Reduction and Green IT, Consolidated Network Security Kills Three Birds with One Stone
As an IT professional dealing with network security, you are constantly confronted by an evolving array of threats and increasing compliance requirements. To manage this dynamic security threats landscape against other imperatives such as cost, limited data centre space, ease of use and protecting the environment, enterprise IT professionals has to consider both tactical and strategic imperatives. Network security consolidation is a real bargain with all the benefits that consolidation delivers for other areas of enterprise computing such as lower cost, easier management and many green benefits with improved security.
Network Times, Korea |
| June 30, 2008 |
Be on guard against multi-layer threats
Malware are increasingly becoming complex threats designed with multiple components that target different enterprise weaknesses, say industry watchers.
ZD Net Asia |
| June 23, 2008 |
Taking security steps to stay competitive
Network security has become crucial in enterprises' daily operations. The rise in virus and hacker attacks emphasises the need for a good security strategy to ensure enterprises stay competitive. Fortinet Inc's sales director of South Asia, Benjamin Teh shares his views.
Tech & U |
| June 18, 2008 |
U.S. Fortinet recommends "Consolidated Security" approach to sophisticated threats
According to Jens Andreassen, vice president of sales, the market trend is leaning towards security consolidation. He went onto to explain that network threats have evolved with attacks becoming more organized and complex. Thus, making the network security consolidation approach all the more relevant today. For instance, Fortinet provides a consolidated environment that enables the use of multiple security services like firewall, antivirus and anti-spam on a single platform through "FortiGate" consolidated threat security systems. In addition, consolidating multiple security functions will improve efficiency and reduce operational expenditure through the provision of comprehensive service offerings.
Dempa Shimbun newspaper, Japan |
| June 13, 2008 |
"UTM is the best choice for the introduction of security service" said Fortinet
Fortinet Japan held a media round table on June 13th, announcing the proposition of UTM which can consolidate and virtualized security solution for MSSP and Enterprise.
IT Media |
| June 2008 |
Interview with Eryin Halmen, the Fortinet Country Sales Manager in Malaysia
An IDC report recently named Fortinet as the worldwide leader in factory revenue for Unified Threat Management(UTM) porducts. Max-IT speaks with Mr. Eryin Halmen for more details.
MaxIT Magazine |
| May 27, 2008 |
Fortinet network security
Based on Fortinet's announcement of a collaboration with NCS Group for their managed security services platform. The coverage mentions how Fortinet's consolidated network security solution enables customers to reduce power consumption by reducing the number of security appliances.
The Straits Times, Singapore |
| May 23, 2008 |
UTM Takes the Role of Border Security Guard
This article talks about the UTM development status at present. After three years quick development, the market space of UTM has exceeded firewall and become the mainstream in security gateway market. The leading manufacturers in the world like Fortinet and Checkpoint etc all concern the ease of use. They put the usability as the focus of product exploitation, and thus the degree of satisfaction is rising. UTM becomes the main battlefield for major manufacturers, as a leading UTM manufacturer in the world, Fortinet entered China market in 2003 and has been focusing on building a channel system with wide coverage and high efficiency. Now Fortinet has got a better performance and ranked the first in China UTM market. The article also mentioned that multi-core platform becomes the hope for the manufacturers to solve the UTM performance bottlenecks.
Sina.com.cn |
| May 22, 2008 |
Fortinet to provide multi-threat security platform for NCS Group's managed security services
The NCS Group will deploy a managed security service based on Fortinet's multi-threat, integrated security platform. The managed security service will enable enterprise customers to outsource their IT security needs for optional protection and threat management while reducing their capital and operational expresses.
SearchSMBAsia |
| May 9, 2008 |
Danger! Online game users, are you protected from Trojans?
According to the latest report from security vendor Fortinet, online gaming Trojans targeted hevay attacks on Asia where online gaming gains the growing popularity. Two famous online gaming Trojans respectively targeted Taiwan and China in April. Online gaming vendor says hackers steal users' passwords and account credentials via seeding Trojans in victims' computers. Users should secure their computers to protect personal information.
China Times |
| May 7, 2008 |
Fortinet enhanced its mid-range UTM appliance performance.
UTM leader Fortinet recently launched a new mid-range UTM appliance, Fortinet-310B. With its new FortiASIC processor that was used only for high-end products, FortiGate-310B delivers firewall and IPSec VPN throughput of 8Gbps and 6Gbps respectively. This is the first time that Fortinet expands its FortiASIC processor to mid-range UTM appliances, said Jens Andreassen, VP of Fortinet APAC. Andreassen added that this unique processor FortiASIC was used only for high-end products at over 50 thousand USD. This big change has dramatically enhanced FortiGate-310B's FW and VPN performance.
iThome |
| May 2, 2008 |
UTM heads for larger market in Asia
Jens Andreassen, vice president of Asia-Pacific sales at Fortinet, told ZDNet Asia in a recent interview that the company is now seeing breakthrough in the higher-priced segment, a contrast to several years earlier, when UTM or all-in-one security appliances appealed mainly to small and midsize businesses (SMBs).
ComputerWorld |
| April 30, 2008 |
Global Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions provider targets Malaysia growth
US-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions provider Fortinet Inc. has launched a UTM solution for mid-market companies, as part of a new Asia-Pacific partner programme strategy.
ComputerWorld |
| April 30, 2008 |
Fortinet announced new FortiPartner program
Fortinet, the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, is announcing an aggressive channel-growth strategy aimed at significantly boosting the number of enterprise resellers in Asia Pacific in 2008.
Sing Tao Daily - IT Square |
| April 29, 2008 |
New ASICs technology accelerate firewall performance to switching speeds - FortiGate-310B
Fortinet announced the new FortiGate™-310B multi-threat security appliance. By incorporating into the purpose-built FortiASIC™ network processors previously reserved for its high-end product lines, Fortinet is raising the bar on firewall and virtual private network (VPN) throughput performance to gigabit-per-second (Gbps) speeds, and enabling wire-speed firewall performance.
PC Market |
| April 29, 2008 |
Leading Market Research Firm Ranks Fortinet No. 1 in Worldwide and Asia Pacific UTM Revenue for 2007
Fortinet has announced that new IDC research data confirms that the company ranked No. 1 in worldwide UTM factory revenue and the Asia Pacific UTM leader based on factory revenue, both for 2007, fueled by significant large enterprise, MSSP and carrier adoption of its high-end FortiGate™ network security appliances. This data makes Fortinet the global UTM factory revenue leader for two consecutive years.
PC3 Corporate |
| April 29, 2008 |
Companies fight to hold off growing threat of 'malware'
The portmanteau word for software that is written to damage computers intentionally is "malware", based on teh same model as hardware and software, although it may be more closely related to "beware".
South China Morning Post |
| April 28, 2008 |
UTM unexpectedly becomes an eye-catcher thanks to green issues
UTM has unexpectedly caught users' eyes when they start to pay attention to environment protection. According to Jens Andreassen, Sales VP of Fortinet APAC, who visited Taipei last week, green issues and power consumption reduction spotlight the benefits of UTM and become the considerations for users to purchase security applicances.
ZDNet |
| April 25, 2008 |
Fortinet Releases Mid-range UTM Appliance with equal Performance Level of its High-end model
Fortinet Japan today announced FortiGate-310B, a mid-range model, which is going to be available during Q2.
Enterprise Watch |
| April 23, 2008 |
Middle-range UTM with High-end Model's Performance Level from Fortinet
Fortinet Japan today announced FortiGate-310B, a mid-range UTM. UTM is a category of network securiy appliance that multiple functions are integrated into one device. Performance level of UTM has been boosted higher and the market is growing faster recent years.
Ascii |
| April 18, 2008 |
Government penalties can't deter cybercrime
At the pace that internet threats and highly-organised cyber attacks are happening, it is unrealistic for individuals or organisations to rely on governments to protect them, according to Unified Threat Management (UTM) pioneer Fortinet.
ComputerWorld, Singapore |
| Feb 25, 2008 |
Riverbed upgrades optimisation system and partners with Fortinet
The firm said that the updates would boost Exchange 2007 and web application performance, while it also announced phase 1 of the RiOS Services Platform (RSP), which will allow third party vendors to run their software on the Steelhead Appliances.
ITnews |
| Feb 12, 2008 |
Fortinet launches New Zealand partner program
Founded eight years ago, US-based vendor Fortinet has already grown its global workforce to exceed 1000 employees.
CRN |
| Feb 2008 |
The war against malware
More than ever before, the threat of malware continued to hang over the heads of enterprise executives in 2007. Further proliferation is also a frightening possibility for 2008, according to some industry participants.
CIO Asia |
| Jan 9, 2008 |
Fortinet, No. 1 in Worldwide UTM Market Leader
Fortinet announced that new IDC research data confirms that for the third consecutive quarter, the company ranked No. 1 in worldwide UTM factory revenue and the Asia Pacific UTM leader based on factory revenue, both for Q3 2007. Fortinet is the overall leader of global vendors in UTM factory revenue in Korea, India, Malaysia and Singapore. In Korea, Fortinet leads the low-end ($0-$0.9K) price band in factory revenue and units shipped, and the $3K-$5.9K price band for factory revenue and units shipped overall. It also leadsthe large enterprise ($10K-$24.9K) price band for factory revenue and units shipped amongst the global vendors
dataNet, Korea |
| Jan 3, 2008 |
Nissan Korea Secures Corporate Network with Fortinet
"Nissan Korea is preparing for their official launch next year in 2008, and it has also been going through a period of incredible growth with the popularity of the Infiniti range of vehicles. At the beginning of the project, they explained that they recognized the need to have a credible network security system in place, in time for the launch, and that they needed the security solution to be deployed quickly, but require minimum routine maintenance," said Hwang Young-chul, Manager of the Security Business Team at SysOne.
Digital Times, Korea |
| Jan 3, 2008 |
Fortinet Korea provided the UTM solution at Nissan Korea
Fortinet announced that Nissan Korea has successfully deployed Fortinet's FortiGate systems to secure its head office and sales and distributions centers. Nissan Korea was founded in 2002 and is the maker of the award-winning Infiniti™ range of luxury cars and SUVs. The company engaged its trusted partner, system integration company SysOne for this project, to deploy the FortiGate systems.
Electronic Times, Korea |
| Jan 1, 2008 |
Storm warning issued
Security experts provide an overview of their predictions of security threats for 2008, with the biggest threat being the Storm Worm. The write-up also quoted Richard Stiennon, security evangelist at Fortinet, citing 2008 to be the year when Facebook widgets will be used to distribute malware.
The Straits Times - Digital Life, Singapore |
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