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SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 11, 2004 – Fortinet
– the only provider of ASICpowered, network-based antivirus
firewall systems for real-time network protection – today
announced that Chunghwa Telecom Global is leveraging the power
and flexibility of the FortiGate family of antivirus firewalls
to protect its corporate network and ensure secure broadband
communication services to its consumer and enterprise customers.
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) Global is the U.S. subsidiary of Chunghwa
Telecom, the largest telecommunications carrier in Taiwan.
CHT Global evaluated competitive solutions from other vendors
such as NetScreen (Nasdaq: NSCN) and selected the FortiGate
3000 and FortiGate 3600 units based on superior performance,
management and security capabilities.
CHT Global’s charter is to provide secure broadband
voice and data communications for consumers and managed security
services for Chinese-based enterprises operating in the United
States. To carry this out, the carrier required a bullet-proof
security solution that could protect customers from the growing
number of complicated, blended Internet attacks and offer
real-time performance to maintain broadband connection rates.
At the same time, CHT Global also needed to ensure this same
level of security for its own corporate resources and required
a solution that was easy to deploy and manage and offered
a good return on investment. After testing and evaluating
products from NetScreen and others, CHT Global found its solution
in Fortinet’s FortiGate family of integrated antivirus
firewalls.
“We needed comprehensive protection but couldn’t
afford to have security be the bottleneck on the network.
In evaluating our options, it was clear that we would get
much better performance from a hardware-based solution and
better security from an integrated platform as opposed to
multiple disparate products,” said Liwen Chen, President
of Chunghwa Telecom Global. “We chose Fortinet’s
FortiGate solutions for the superior levels of performance
and protection they provided. Since implementing the Fortinet
solution, we’ve already experienced a significant reduction
in the number of viruses and attacks we’ve encountered,
and have decreased the amount of IT resources required to
manage our firewall and antivirus deployments.”
Following a quick and easy deployment, Fortinet’s FortiGate
3000 and 3600 platforms now protect CHT Global’s corporate
and branch offices, as well as enterprise customers of its
Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) offerings and consumer
subscribers of its broadband voice and data services. The
carrier plans to expand its FortiGate solution in 2H 04 to
deliver an even broader array of managed security services
to customers.
Meeting the Security Performance Challenge
As security attacks increasingly use high-speed networks to
spread, performance has become the most important feature
of any security product that analyzes real-time network traffic.
Fortinet’s award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated
Antivirus Firewalls detect and eliminate the most damaging
and dangerous content-based threats at the network edges without
degrading network performance. The products’ ASIC-powered
antivirus protection strips harmful, content-based attacks
– including viruses, worms and Trojans – from real-time
Web traffic as well as email messages at the network edge,
even from within encrypted VPN tunnels, before these threats
can reach vital servers and desktops.
The FortiGate family of network-based antivirus firewall
systems is kept up to date with the latest antivirus attack
and intrusion protection signature databases by Fortinet’s
FortiProtect Network. The FortiProtect Network provides around
the clock, automatic, instantaneous updates to FortiGate units
worldwide – ensuring CHT Global and all other customers
have the most up-to-date security available.
“Organizations of all sizes and types are demanding
improved security but are unwilling to suffer delays in their
network applications in order to have it,” said Richard
Kagan, vice president of marketing at Fortinet. “Fortinet’s
FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls were built from the ground up
to address today’s sophisticated Internet security threats
by delivering complete content protection without any impact
to performance – ultimately translating into fewer security
breaches, lower IT costs and demonstrable ROI for enterprises
of all sizes.”
About Chunghwa Telecom Global
Chunghwa Telecom Global is a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom,
the largest telecommunications carrier in Taiwan. Serving
the Chinese consumer and enterprise markets in the United
States, Chunghwa Telecom Global provides broadband, voice
communication and managed services. These services include
VPN, security and communications applications. Established
in 2003, Chunghwa Telecom Global has offices in Los Angeles
and San Jose, Calif.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated
antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2003 Networking Industry
Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation
of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate
the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web
traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate
Web content and more in real time – without degrading
network performance. FortiGate systems, the only security
products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus,
firewall, IPSec, NIDS), deliver a full range of network-level
and application-level services in integrated, easily managed
platforms. Named to the Chunghwa Customer Win Release - 4
“Visionaries” category in the 2003 Gartner Enterprise
Firewall Magic Quadrant, Fortinet is privately held and based
in Sunnyvale, California.
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