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Award Recognizes Top 100 Private Companies in North America Driving the Technology Industry's Future
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 18, 2005
- Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection
- today announced that it has been named one of the Red Herring 100 Private Companies in North America. This marks the second consecutive year that Fortinet has received a "Red Herring 100" honor.
Red Herring's lists of private companies are an important part of the magazine's tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring's editorial staff rigorously evaluated more than 900 private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.
"Each company that won the approval of our team deserves special recognition for its business proposition and potential to shape the marketplace. We believe that this list represents the best of innovation in North America," noted the editors of Red Herring's May 23, 2005 issue that features this listing.
"We are pleased to be included in this prestigious list featuring some of the most successful and innovative private technology companies in North America," said Adam Stein, vice president of marketing at Fortinet. "The editors at Red Herring provide honest and independent research that offers additional industry validation of Fortinet's continued security innovation, successful growth and execution."
Fortinet's award winning ASIC-accelerated FortiGate™ systems deliver real-time complete content protection through the offering of a broad range of best in class security functions - including antivirus, firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), intrusion detection and prevention, content filtering, traffic shaping, and anti-spam. Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ICSA-certified in five separate security applications, easy to manage and provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection at the network edge.
The complete Red Herring 100 list is available for viewing at www.redherring.com
About Red Herring
Red Herring is the weekly magazine technology entrepreneurs, investors and industry observers read to stay ahead of the curve and to be better informed about the global marketplace. Red Herring covers technology, innovation, financial strategies, important personalities and trends that are transforming the world of business with unique insight, opinion and forward-looking analysis. Readers turn to Red Herring for knowledge to make strategic decisions, build companies and create a competitive advantage for their businesses.
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online at www.redherring.com
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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