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FortiGate Security Appliances Recognized for Industry Leading Integrated Security Functionality by Users of Information Security Products and Services
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 14, 2005
- Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection
- today announced that the company's FortiGate™ family of security appliances has been named a Reader Trust award finalist for "Best Integrated Security Appliance" in the SC Magazine Awards 2006. Finalists for this coveted award were determined by users of information security products and services who voted online during a one month period. This is the second consecutive year that Fortinet's FortiGate systems were nominated a finalist in SC Magazine's Reader Trust Awards.
"Fortinet is committed to solving the enterprise security challenges of enterprises of all-sizes through our market-leading FortiGate integrated security appliances, and we are honored to have again been recognized for this by SC Magazine readers and security technology users," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO of Fortinet. "This nomination is a testament to the market interest and demand for our FortiGate systems and the innovative security, performance and overall value they provide to customers."
Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that deliver real-time network protection through the integration of a broad range of security functions -- including firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), antivirus, intrusion prevention, content filtering, traffic shaping, and anti-spam. All of Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ICSA-certified for firewall, antivirus, IDS, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN; easy to manage and provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection at the network gateway and edge. FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically through Fortinet's FortiGuard™ Network, which delivers continuous and automatic signature 'push' updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, intrusions and other threats around the clock, and around the world.
The SC Magazine Global Award 2006 winners will be determined by SC Magazine judges and announced at a gala dinner in San Jose on February 14, 2006.
For more information on Fortinet's FortiGate security appliances, please visit: www.fortinet.com/products/
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 multi-threat security systems, 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.
Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified seven times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection and cleaning), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named a Light Reading Top 10 Private Company and #4 on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" list, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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