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Company Awarded Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" Private Companies Listing for Second Consecutive Year
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 25, 2006
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions
- today announced it has been chosen by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as a "Fast 50" private company based on strong revenue growth over the past three years. This marks the second consecutive year Fortinet has made this coveted list.
For its 2006 "Fast 50" award, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal ranks private companies by percent revenue growth from 2003 to 2005. An impressive growth rate of during this period garnered Fortinet the #10 ranking on the Fast 50 list and serves as a testament to the strong demand for and increased market adoption of Fortinet's market-leading multi-threat security solutions.
"Since first introduced in 2002, Fortinet has shipped more than 150,000 systems to customers around the globe and has gone on to become the largest private company in the security industry," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO for Fortinet. "We are pleased to again receive the 'Fast 50' award by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, which recognizes and validates our impressive growth and market strength over the past three years."
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" story published as a special supplement in the publication's September 22, 2006 issue.
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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