Fortinet to Present at Kaufman Brothers 2nd Annual West Coast Investor Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 7, 2006 - 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 - will present today at the Kaufman Brothers 2nd Annual West Coast Investor Conference, being held in San Francisco. Fortinet is the only privately-held company scheduled to present at this invitation-only conference.

Addressing institutional investors, securities analysts and fund managers, Fortinet CFO Brett White and Founder and CEO Ken Xie will outline market trends driving the company's impressive growth, strong security market position and rapid global adoption of its market-leading security solutions portfolio.

Fortinet executives will present during the conference's general session today, Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 3:45 pm.

About Kaufman Brothers, LP
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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.