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    Dec 27, 2006 BBC Radio 4's Today programme: the raise of cyber-criminals
Guillaume Lovet, Fortinet's AV expert and guru, was interviewed by the BBC to discuss about the raise of cyber-criminals, their phishing techniques and the related dangers for consumers. This interview was aired on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/).
BBC
    Dec 5, 2006 Per Fortinet è ora di pensare ai partner
Per Fortinet e ora di pensare di partner: Interview with Andre Stewart, vice president of the EMEA region at Fortinet
Reseller Business, Italy
    Dec 1, 2006 Fortinet, la rentabilidad del mercado UTM
En abril de 2004 Fortinet decidió poner la primera piedra de su filial en Espana.
Canal Net, Spain
    Dec 2006 Nachzügler mit Gewicht
FortiGate 1000A2 received the Network Computing 'Preis-Leistung' (best cost/performance) award for: Firewall, VPN performance, quality-of-service and high availability.
Network Computing, Germany
    Dec 2006 Keep a tight lid on Pandora's box
In this bylined article, Freddy Mangum, vice president of product marketing at Fortinet explains how innovations in telecom such as the evolution towards IMS has opened a Pandora’s box of security risks, exposing telecom carriers to threats they were previously shielded from...
Vanilla Plus, UK
    Dec 2006 Security on the move
Laptops and Smartphones are increasingly vulnerable to malicious attacks. The threat of having them stolen or lost is not inconsequential by any extent of imagination. Much more than the hardware that is lost, it is threat of loosing invaluable corporate data that underlines the need for religiously securing your portable devices. This article walks you through some of the key tips on how to do so…”
Security Advisor Middle East
    Dec 2006 Fortinet L'UTM secondo Fortinet
L'UTM Secondo Fortinet: Interview with Luca Simonelli, regional vice president at Fortinet
PMI, Italy
    Nov 21, 2006 Fortinet: security is always more mobile
Everyday, while more and more data are saved on mobile devices like smartphones and PDAs, more and more threats, like malware, trojans and viruses, are developed to hit these mini clients. These threats are now a major issue to the mobile computing world. In this article, Stefano Chiccarelli, Fortinet EMEA Consultant Engineer, explains how we can act both at the client and at the network infrastructure levels to face and control these threats.
Network World
    Nov 21, 2006 The right security approach according to Fortinet
IT security creates lot of confusion. Even if the words used to describe how networks should be protected are generally vague and difficult to understand, it is clear that we need more than intrusion prevention and firewall solutions for a complete network protection. This article describes how Fortinet's white paper on Network-based Security clarifies the IT security issue and provides the basis for creating a strong and complete network-based security solution.
Computer Dealer & Var
    Oct 24, 2006 Liverpool Direct completes major web-filtering & anti-virus project
Liverpool Direct Limited (LDL), the joint venture between BT and Liverpool City Council, has completed a project to put in comprehensive web-filtering, anti-virus scanning, and anti-spam solution to a broad user base including more than 200 schools and Europe's largest public sector contact centre. Liverpool Direct Limited (LDL), the joint venture between BT and Liverpool City Council, has completed a project to put in comprehensive web-filtering, anti-virus scanning, and anti-spam solution to a broad user base including more than 200 schools and Europe's largest public sector contact centre.
Public Technology.net
    Oct 14, 2006 MySpace phishing scam targets music fans
Con-men have developed a phishing attack targeting MySpace music fans that highlights the evolving use of social engineering techniques in money-making spam emails.
The Register
    Sept 27, 2006 Swisscom Mobile selects Fortinet's security systems
Swisscom Mobile will use Fortinet's solutions to establish a defence platform to protect its 4.5m customers base from mobile cyber threats.
M 2
    Sept 26, 2006 Fortinet Wins Security Deal with Swisscom Mobile
Fortinet today announced that Swisscom Mobile AG, the leading provider of mobile communications services in Switzerland, has purchased Fortinet's FortiGate™-5000 Series carrier-class security systems, FortiGuard subscription services, and management and analysis systems.
ITSecurity
    Sept 25, 2006 Securing data and restoring network order
There are some problems that security software is unable to cope with so there is also a need for hardware that can filter out the bad.
MicroScope
    Sept 18, 2006 Fortinet Ranked the Fastest Growing Major Security Vendor by Leading Market Research Firm
Fortinet today announced that IDC research data confirms it is the fastest growing major security vendor across all appliance categories in the unified threat management (UTM) market and was number one for worldwide UTM revenue for Q2 2006, displacing previous revenue leader SonicWall.
ArriveNet
    Sept 18, 2006 Fortinet protects mobile phones and PDA's
Fortinet who works with Unified Threat Management launch FortiClient Mobile, an integrated security solution for mobile phones and PDA' s powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile or Symbian OS.
Aktuell Säkerhet
    Sept 5, 2006 Networking and mobility make small & medium business grow
This is a survey published by CRN about networking and mobility for small & medium business. The feature involves companies which attended Internetworking 2006 showcasing their networking and mobility solutions dedicated to small & medium business. Fortinet presents its FortiMail solution, based on FortiOs and FortiAsic technology, which protects mission critical appliances from advanced threats. CRN interviewed Joe Sarno.
CRN
    Aug 29, 2006 Sales becomes a political game
We all dream of the big one, bringing that large customer ashore. This is the ambition of vendors, resellers and integrators. But how do you gain this large account? The competition is immense, the enterprise environment hard to tackle and there are many pitfalls. Does the magic sales trick exist? Marc Jepkes, Fortinet Sales Manager in Holland unveils his approach: new business creation is a specialty. Build your network.
Holland - ComputerPartner
    Aug 21, 2006 Big things await short-listed firms
The judges have selected the CRN Channel Awards short lists for 2006, so it is time for both resellers and customers to go online and vote for their favourite channel performers of the year.
CRN
    Aug 21, 2006 Brandschutz im Einsatz
Fortinet's FortiGate-1000A has been awarded as "best product from a cost-benefit ratio" in a Gigabit Ethernet Appliances test in German publication Network Computing.
Real World Labs
    Aug 18, 2006 Fortinet Italy appoints Mr. Albizzati, Mr. Buratti and Mr. Caterino
Franco Caterino, Gabriele Buratti and Edoardo Albizzati have been appointed respectively as Major Account, System Engineer and Regional Channel Manager of Fortinet Italy (hi-tech security systems). Caterino worked for Uniautomation, Buratti for Netasq and Albizzati for Attachmate and Allasso. The three managers and Joe Sarno, who has become Business Alliance and Telco Manager, will respond directly to Luca Simonelli, Regional Director of Fortinet Italy.
Il Mondo Nomine
    Aug 14, 2006 Fortinet looks to recruit in enterprise offensive
Unified Threat Management (UTM) vendor Fortinet is drawing up a hit list of 45 key UK VARs it wants to partner with to spearhead its push into the high-end marker.
CRN UK
    Aug 2, 2006 Fortinet Italian appointments - "Mr. Albizzati, Mr. Buratti and Mr. Caterino's appointment"
Fortinet cresce nel Belpaese. Nuovi arrivi in Fortinet. L'azienda privata, specializzata nella fornitura di sistemi di sicurezza multi threat, ha nominato Edoardo Albizzati, Gabriele Buratti e Franco Caterino, rispettivamente, regional channel manager, ssytems engineer a major account manager della filiale italiana.
Italia Oggi
    Aug 1, 2006 Fortinet to face virus attacks
La risposta agli attacchi misti che sfruttano diverse vulnerabilità di rete, e-mail e traffico Web, la diffusione della tecnologia mobile e l'ottemperanza a norme per la sicurezza saranno e esigenze che guideranno il mercato.
Top Trade
    Aug 1, 2006 Ebay fraud with Bots and 1-cent sales
Betrüger bauen sich nahezu vollautomatisch Dutzende von Ebay-Konten mit guten Bewertungen auf und benutzen sie dann zum Verkauf von Artikeln, die sie nie liefern.
PC Welt
    July 26, 2006 A proposito di phishing
A colloquio con Stefano Chiccarelli, di Fortinet, sul tema del prelevamento capzioso di dati.
01Net
    July 20, 2006 Online music store boosts user confidence
Music Sales, the world's largest online retailer of sheet music, is overhauling its security infrastructure to build online trust and meet European ecommerce regulations.
Computing UK
    July 19, 2006 CBR 10 Most Influential: Security
Fortinet has been recognized as one of 10 Most Influential Security Companies by Computer Business Review.
Computer Business Review
    July 13, 2006 Security
Fortinet named one of the top ten global security vendors, and commended for its high-end vision and product offerings.
Computer Business Review
    July 8, 2006 Doorbraak Wi-Fi op (muziek) Festivals
Growing volumes in data-traffic, media-rich applications such as video on demand and streaming video, and consolidation of the data centre stimulate the need for bandwidth and high speed access. In order to provide this, internet access providers, carriers, enterprises and government organisations are quickly upgrading to Ethernet access for their broadband networks. Security should not lag behind. Two main trends are visible in the protection of high speed networks: standardisation on ATCA and consolidation of security on one platform. Fortinet is the first security vendor to address these needs.
Holland - Telematica
    July 3, 2006 Is it niche and easy for the specialists?
The security and networking sectors have felt the impact of convergence more than most, but what does this mean for firms that specialise in one or the other?
CRN
    July 1, 2006 GoupTest: Firewalls
Fortinet FortiGate-1000A receives 4 stars and "recommended" rating in SCMagazine enterprise firewall group test.
SC Magazine
    July 2006 Fortinet punta sui piccoli
Fortinet Italian country manager discusses company's local channel strategy
Computer Dealer & VAR
    June 7, 2006 Fortinet: Auch Netzwerker willkommen
Fortinet is restructuring the channel in the DACH region and first and foremost they are looking into new value added resellers. Carsten Gallitz, Channel Manager for DACH has been hired to support the partners. Fortinet has enjoyed great success during its growth, doubling their revenue and continuously extending their technological expertise.
ComputerPartner
    May 24, 2006 Les appliances bana I'expertise
Focus on Fortinet & Juniper : both use proprietary ASICs to make processing faster. Both Fortinet and Juniper pop up out the list because they use ASIC technology.
Reseller News
    May 1, 2006 FortiGate-300A
The FortiGate-300A is a fullfunction front-end system for protecting a network in a way that goes far beyond intrusion prevention.
SC Magazine
    Apr 1, 2006 Sicurezza Multi-threat Per Le Applicationi Im Aziendali
Leading Italian publication highlights Fortinet's FortiOS 3.0 firmware, focusing on new features such as complete security for Instant Messaging (IM), protection for peer-to-peer applications, and improved management/analysis functionality.
Sistemi & Impresa
    Mar 3, 2006 University of Bologna chose Fortigate appliances by Fortinet to protect its own network from viruses, spyware and worms.
The CeSIA (Centre for the Development and Management of University Computer Services) manage the entire IT service and security within the university. In order to do this, they needed a tool with bridge / firewall functionalities. The University of Bologna decided to use 2 FortiGate 3600 appliances and about 30 smaller FortiGate appliances to monitor the university internet traffic and the different departments' networks. Moreover, the CeSIA chose to implement FortiManager: the main advantage being the appliance has more security functionalities in just one tool.
Data Manager Online
    Mar 1, 2006 Fortinet, Mai Abbassare la guardia
The article is a summary of Guillaume's March report highlighting the botnets danger, the evolution of Mytob attacks and how hackers are evolving towards more and more lucrative activities (with the exception of Sober). The article also reports a short explanation about Fortinet products.
Top Trade informatica
    Feb 22, 2006 Zombie PCs growing quickly online
Indictments and court cases in the US have once again thrown the spotlight on so-called zombie computers or bots.
BBC News
    Feb 22, 2006 Specializzazione UTM
It starts talking about the recent partnership between Fortinet and Elsag, according to which Elsag will include FortiGate boards in its security appliances. The article mentions Fortinet's strong growth in Italy and the numerous awards/certifiations collected. It also talks about the FotiGate appliances, the IDC positioning of Fortinet and finally mentions the 3.0.
NewtworkNews
    Feb 21, 2006 Fortimail and Fortimail stops spam together
Fortinet have started to sell the new hardware FortiMail with software FortiMail 2.2. Together will they protect against spam, both as the Internet gateway and linked together with an e-mail server. The system is made for larger enterprises and service providers and is built on an anti-virus engine that stops viruses and spyware. The anti-virus engine also scans all e-mail traffic. The FortiMail-system shall, according to the manufacturer Fortinet, be easy to integrate with the FortiGate-systems and the anti spam service FortiGuard.
Säkerhet & Sekretess
    Feb 17, 2006 Fortinet Report: Malware in 2005
It is an article regarding the Malware report that Guillaume Lovet presented in his press conference.
PC Today
    Feb 15, 2006 Secure Web Appilcations
It is a special article regarding security in Web Applications. The article includes interesting quotes from Emilio Roman -Country Manager of Fortinet in Spain- regarding Fortinet's portfolio and market momentum
TCN
    Feb 15, 2006 FortiOS 3.0 and FortiManager 3.0 come to Spanish market
It is an article regarding this key product launch of Fortinet. The article describes the main capabilities if the products
TCN
    Feb 8, 2006 PC, IL PERICOLO ORA SI CHIAMA VIRUS MUTANTE
This is a long piece about how IT threats are evolving and offers an overview of new attacks, like phishing and botnets. It also includes the opinions of the most important security vendors. The quote from Ken Xie is about Fortine's approach to building specialized appliances that are able to scan and analyze the content of data running through networks, protecting them from viruses and spyware
Panorama Economy
    Feb 3, 2006 Sober worm hangover finally draws to a close
The long-running IT security hangover caused by the Sober worm has finally come to an end, newly published threat monitoring data claimed today. According to the latest monthly malware report from Fortinet, the worm's activity "spectacularly dropped" on Jan. 6, as it made the transition from its spreading phase to an update phase.
SC Magazine
    Feb 1, 2006 Fortinet announces business strategy for 2006
It is an article regarding business strategy of Fortinet in Spain: goals, business expectations & channel strategy. It is the coverage from the press conference that took place last month
NewsBook
    Jan 30, 2006 Cash bonus for mid-market win
Security appliance maker Fortinet is offering resellers cash bonuses for mid-market customer wins as it targets the Nokia and Check Point alliance in an attempt to triple reseller numbers.
Microscope
    Jan 27, 2006 Fortinet looks for VARs to bolster firewall sales
Fortinet is gunning for rival Nokia in the high-end firewall space and has launched an aggressive campaign to grab market share.
vnunet.com
    Jan 26, 2006 Silenzio prego, parlano i big
The article is a reporting of the Telecom meeting, and summarizes the opinions of Fortinet and other security vendors attending the conference as Mcafee and Cisco. The article quote some passages of the interview with Ken Xie: it mentions Fortinet exclusive ASIC Technology and the competitve advantage of the all in one appliances. In the next future the mobile market will be, according to Ken Xie, the most interesting one.
week.it
    Jan 19, 2006 Malware is getting nastier, says Fortinet
Fortinet says 2006 will see a huge rise in IM and mobile malware, as well as greater involvement by organized criminals and political and religious extremists.
the INQUIRER
    Jan 16, 2006 TÄYSI taisteluvarustus
In a group test of UTM security appliances, Fortinet's FortiGate-60 receives "Editor's Choice", outperforming products from Juniper, WatchGuard, SonicWall, GTA, and Zyxell.
vnunet.com
    Jan 12, 2006 La sicurezza diventa un servizio a valore aggiunto
The article has a very positive tone about Fortinet: it summarizes the Fortinet's very fast growth, how UTM security appliances are gaining market share as they provide the right answer to the new blended attacks, and reminds the importance of partnerships in the present market.
Tecnologia E Business
    Jan 11, 2006 L'UTM secondo Fortinet
The article is about Ken Xie interview and it highlights that, nowadays, the biggest security threats comes form the content, so it is necessary to provide protection at this level. On this concept is based the whole UTM market. The ASIC technology represents Fortinet competitive advantage. The article mentions the Fortigate 5000 appliance as one of the most sold among the FortiGate appliances range.
NetworkWorld
    Jan 03, 2006 EBay users hit by mass phishing attacks
Popular online auction site eBay was the target for 96 per cent of all UK phishing attacks in December, according to security specialists Fortinet.
vnunet.com


 
 

   
   
 


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