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Nanyang Technology University is honored for strategic use of security technologies
SINGAPORE, August 21, 2006
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions
today announced that its customer, Nanyang Technological University, has been named one of the finalists in MIS Asia's IT Excellence Awards 2006. The university was recognized for its strategic use of network security technology.
The MIS Asia IT Excellence Awards honors outstanding organizations across Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and India) in both the private and public sector for excellence in technology. The awards recognize IT teams that create tangible business results through the skilful use of IT and business savvy. All entries went through two rounds of judging, with a third round in the event of a tie in scores. The Award's judges scored the organizations on their use of IT to drive revenue, sales and other business-related metrics.
Nanyang Technology University, a leading engineering college 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 to its eLearning Operations Center at the Centre for Educational Development (CED) at the university. The CED is a popular and critical information resource used by students and staff for research as well as course work. In addition to improving overall security, the Fortinet integrated multi-threat security platform protected the university from attacks, including the Zotob worm, during 2005.
This is the first nomination of a Fortinet customer for the annual MIS Asia awards. Nanyang Technology University is a finalist in the Best Security Strategy Public Sector category. ]
"Security is as much a business issue as it is a technology issue," said Mr. Hansen Chang, Fortinet's VP for Asia Pacific. "There are many considerations and trade-offs that technology teams need to make in the course of their work to meet both technology and business objectives. We are pleased and proud that Nanyang Technology University's team has been distinguished for their innovative deployment of Fortinet security technology."
Fortinet's FortiGate-3600 Security System provides antivirus and content filtering capabilities and can be deployed as a complete network security solution. The FortiGate-3600 is a high performance solution that supports High Availability non-stop operations and delivers gigabit throughput for the most demanding large enterprise and service provider environments. FortiGate-3600 systems are kept up to date automatically by FortiGuard Subscription Services which provides continuous push updates, ensuring round-the-clock protection against the latest viruses, worms and Trojans.
Fortinet's FortiAnalyzer series securely aggregates log data from FortiGate security appliances on the network for real-time network logging, analysis, and reporting. FortiAnalyzer provides network administrators with a comprehensive view of network usage and security information, and can assist in discovering and addressing vulnerabilities.
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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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