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Computer Business Review recognizes Fortinet for its market innovation, leadership and influence
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 24, 2006
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions
- today announced it has been named one of the Ten Most Influential Security Companies in a special report issued last week by Computer Business Review, a leading publication in the United States and the United Kingdom. Fortinet is the only private company on this list, which includes industry giants like Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, and others.
For its annual Ten Most Influential special reports, Computer Business Review's editorial staff considers a company's market influence, revenue, profitability as key selection criteria. Chosen companies are believed to command a newfound level of influence - causing other vendors to follow suit - or have broadened their portfolios and stretched their innovation to address emerging market needs.
The report notes Fortinet's impressive growth, as well as its innovation and influence in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) market: "Fortinet is a rare beast, a private security company barely into its sixth year that is already the category leader in a rapidly growing market, where it competes against companies much better known than itself [sic]...Virtually every company that sells a firewall now also sells a UTM device, a testament to Fortinet's ability to very early identify a market where there is real demand."
Recognizing the need for high-performance integrated security to protect against an array of blended threats, Fortinet introduced the industry's first multi-threat security appliances in 2002. Since then, the company has expanded its solutions portfolio to include an array of new security systems and services, and propelled itself to become one of the largest and fastest-growing private security companies in history. To date, approximately 150,000 Fortinet appliances have shipped to more than 20,000 enterprises, universities, service providers and telecommunications carriers worldwide.
Computer Business Review's Ten Most Influential Security Companies article can be viewed at:
http://www.cbronline.com/article_cbr.asp?guid=7D792053-714E-4633-AE98-CCB7C7ED7281.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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