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Leading Korean Discount Store Protects Against Security Threats with FortiGate Solutions
SEOUL, Korea. - Apr. 1, 2008
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that Samsung Tesco Home Plus has successfully deployed Fortinet's FortiGate™ unified threat management solution at its 66 stores throughout Korea. With the deployment of FortiGate appliances, Home Plus is helping to secure its network infrastructure from malicious Internet attacks such as viruses, worms and malicious traffic.
Home Plus, one of Korea's leading discount stores with 66 locations throughout the country, was looking for a comprehensive security solution to protect against harmful Internet threats. Home Plus selected Fortinet's FortiGate solutions because of Fortinet's name recognition within the market and the mother company of Home Plus also has been benefiting from Fortinet's FortiGate-60 A.
A FortiGate-200A is deployed at Home Plus's Data Restoration center for Firewall. FortiGate-100As are deployed at 21 stores to prevent the spread of malicious Internet viruses between stores
"With the FortiGate solution, we can now protect our valuable customer information by blocking network attacks such as worms and spyware," said Kim Jeong-han, manager of System Management team at Samsung Tesco Home Plus. "The FortiGate appliances are very convenient and easy to use and with the FortiGuard service, we have real time security updates."
Home Plus also deployed FortiManager 400A and FortiAnalyzer 800 at its data center. With FortiAnalyzer, Home Plus is able to securely analyze log data from FortiGate appliances to be provided comprehensive view of network usage and security information for Home Plus. And FortiAnalyzer centrally manages all FortiGate solution, minimizing the administrative effort to maintain the full range of network protection services.
Fortinet's FortiGate unified threat management platforms are integrated network security solutions providing content inspection firewall, IPSec and SSL VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-spam, antivirus, antispyware that prevent blended attacks, as well as providing integrated traffic shaping functions, making them the most cost effective, convenient and powerful network protection solutions available.
All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard™ subscription services, which provide continuous updates to help protect against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats - around the clock, and around the world.
"For retail stores such as Home Plus, security is paramount in ensuring customer satisfaction. If there is a customer data breach, retail stores are held accountable and the customers lose faith in the stores - leading to a possible decline in sales," said Justin Lee, Korea country manager, Fortinet. "FortiGate solutions comprehensively protect against network and content level threats and allows enterprises to cost effectively manage multiple networks - without degrading network performance."
About Samsung Tesco Home Plus (www.homeplus.co.kr)
Samsung Tesco Home Plus is joint venture of Samsung Corporation and Tesco and founded in May, 1999. It stared with only 2 stores in 1999 and after 4 years later, it became the No2 vendor in the market, operating 28 stores. Home Plus is No 1 for revenue per store and recorded 1 billion dollar revenue in 2001 within the shortest period in the market. In addition, it firstly introduced Price Investment system in Korea, and opened Mok Chun Physical Distribution Center, one of the biggest distribution management centers in Asia. As a part of the localized and differentiated strategy, it also introduced concept of ‘value store' moving away from traditional store concept. And Home Plus is leading related market by introducing new distribution service including insurance, travel and e-learning.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, 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, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level 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 in six programs by ICSA Labs: (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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