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FortiGate-3600 Recognized in "Best Network Intrusion Prevention System" Category
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 8, 2005 - Fortinet - the confirmed market
leader in Unified Threat Management (UTM) and only provider
of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems
for real-time network protection - today announced its FortiGate™-3600 integrated network security systems have been named a 2005 Well-Connected Award Finalist in the Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) category by CMP Media, Inc.'s Network Computing Magazine. Prompting this nomination was Fortinet's numerical first place-tie in Network Computing's January 20, 2005 comparative review of intrusion protection products (http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1601f3), based on the manageability, ease of use, and comprehensive feature set of its FortiGate-3600 system.
This nomination marks the second consecutive year Fortinet's FortiGate systems have been lauded by Network Computing Magazine. In 2004, the systems earned the coveted "Security Product of the Year" award as well as "Best Multi-function Security Appliance" award. Since introduced in 2002, Fortinet and its FortiGate systems have won numerous prestigious industry awards worldwide.
FortiGate-3600 systems are ideal for large enterprises and managed security service providers (MSSPs) with requirements for gigabit performance and exceptional reliability. The systems offer six gigabit-capacity interfaces and up to 4 Gbps real time secure throughput to enable a new generation of protection against today's increasingly content-based attacks. By combining robust intrusion prevention capabilities with an array of security applications - including firewall, antivirus, virtual private networking (VPN), anti-spam, content filtering and traffic shaping - FortiGate systems offer the most comprehensive, cost-effective unified threat management solution available.
Network Computing's Well-Connected Awards honor the year's outstanding technology products and services. They represent the very best products and services the technology industry has to offer in networking, and are chosen by the technology editors of Network Computing from products that have been tested and evaluated in the publication's Real-World Labs.
"For the 11th year in a row, Network Computing will be recognizing the most outstanding tech products and services in the networking and IT world in our Well-Connected award 4/28 issue," says Mike Lee, editor of Network Computing magazine. "The awards are a snapshot in time, the best of what we evaluated over 12 months in our Real-World Labs® - more than 134 finalists in more than 44 categories have been named."
"Maintaining complete content security in today's sophisticated threat environment requires unifying network intrusion prevention with other critical required security applications in a manner that is both easy to manage and cost-effective to deploy," said Adam Stein, vice president of marketing at Fortinet. "As the market leader in Unified Threat Management, we're pleased the editors of Network Computing recognize Fortinet's best in class security application benefits and the value our FortiGate-3600 system delivers."
About Network Computing
For IT, By IT, Network Computing (http://www.networkcomputing.com), published by CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, N.Y., is dedicated to providing critical analysis of technologies, vendors and products to 220,000 IT Managers and Staff who are accountable for strategic technology purchase decisions. In 2003, Network Computing won a total of four awards from the American Society of Business Publications Editors (ASBPE), including a national award in the Best Technical Article category.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems are the only security products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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