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Nanyang Technological University and AeroNimbus are honored for their strategic use of security technologies
SINGAPORE, April 7, 2006
-- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions
- today announced that two of its customers, Nanyang Technological University and AeroNimbus, have been named as CIO 100 Index honorees at the annual IDG CIO 100 Asia Awards and Conference 2006 for strategic use of IT in network security.
The CIO 100 Index represents a select list of Asian companies adjudged to have added the most value to their businesses through the strategic adoption of IT best practices. The top five honorees judged on whether they have transformed their business or effectively conceived or implemented new best practices are further presented with the CIO Awards.
Nanyang Technological University, a leading institute for higher education in Singapore, implemented Fortinet's FortiGate™-3600 unified threat management (UTM) platforms and FortiAnalyzer™-800 real-time network logging, analysis and reporting system, to provide comprehensive and integrated security and auditing services for its edveNTUre eLearning service. This is housed at the eLearning Operations Center at the Centre for Educational Development (CED). edveNTUre is a popular e-service for teaching and learning used by students and staff. It is a mission-critical service handling between 3 and 4 million page views per week. In addition to improving overall security, the Fortinet integrated multi-threat security platform protected the university from Internet and network attacks, including the Zotob worm, during 2005.
AeroNimbus, a light aircraft manufacturing company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, builds next-generation very light jets (VLJ) aircraft, which can be used for surveillance, cartography, air ambulances, corporate travel and VIP transport. The company realized a secure and cost-effective regional network through the deployment of Fortinet FortiGate-60 UTM systems for its offices in Thailand and Malaysia, and FortiGate-200A systems for its offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Fortinet's market-leading 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 (IPS), Web filtering, traffic shaping, and anti-spam. 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.
"We are proud that use of Fortinet's technology have enabled our customers to improve their network security and IT practices," said Hansen Chang, vice president of Fortinet Asia-Pacific "The recognition of their success by IDG is a testament to Fortinet's superior multi-threat security technology and our understanding of the evolving challenges of our customers."
This is the second year that Fortinet's customers were nominated honorees in IDG's CIO 100 Asia Awards. Honorees for the CIO 100 Asia Awards are determined by users of information security products and services who voted online during a one-month period. The CIO 100 winners are determined by CIO Magazine judges. The results were announced at an awards ceremony at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Singapore on April 7, 2006.
About the CIO 100 Asia Awards and Conference
(http://www.cio-asia.com/cioconf2006/)
The CIO 100 pays tribute to the top 100 Asian organizations that have used technology, IT projects and systems to derive the highest strategic value and yielded the greatest returns for their businesses. The CIO Awards are presented to the top five organizations from the CIO 100 honorees that demonstrate outstanding vision and genius in implementing strategic IT to not just meet current business needs, but transform and create new paradigms for the future.
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, 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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