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Fortinet's FortiGate-500A System Addresses Midmarket Customer Needs by Integrating Essential Security Features into a Comprehensive Network Security Platform
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 4, 2005
- Fortinet - the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection - today announced that its FortiGate-500A system, an enterprise security appliance, was named a midmarket 'Product of the Year' by VARBusiness magazine. Fortinet's FortiGate-500A is featured in the special May 2, 2005 VARBusiness "State of the Midmarket" issue.
VARBusiness, a biweekly magazine that provides strategic insight to technology integrators, solicited input from information technology vendors and solution providers to determine which products and services were best for midmarket customers defined as companies with between 100 and 999 employees. Entries were considered and reviewed by VARBusiness editors who selected only 100 of the more than 400 nominated products.
Fortinet's FortiGate-500A system is an ASIC-accelerated enterprise security appliance that delivers complete Internet content protection to mid-sized enterprises by integrating best in class security features onto a single, affordable and easy-to-manage platform. Unlike leading point product solutions with per user licensing, Fortinet's FortiGate-500A offers per box licensing for its five ICSA-certified capabilities and security features including antivirus, firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), network-based intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), Web content filtering, traffic shaping, anti-spam and grayware blocking, including spyware and adware protection.
The FortiGate-500A system offers enhanced performance and connectivity to meet the more demanding requirements of midmarket enterprises. It includes two 10/100/1000 Ethernet Copper ports and four 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports, and also includes four 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch ports to allow more flexibility when designing security topologies for midmarket enterprise customers. All FortiGate systems from large enterprise to small business units can be updated automatically by Fortinet's FortiProtect™ Network, which provides continuous updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and other threats - around the clock and around the world.
"Fortinet's FortiGate systems enable midmarket enterprises, and businesses of all sizes, to proactively protect every aspect of their network through secure content management by maximizing security performance and minimizing exposure to attack," said Adam Stein, vice president of corporate marketing for Fortinet. "We are honored to be recognized by VARBusiness magazine and the channel partner community for our ability to meet the demanding needs of this market. Fortinet's FortiGate-500A system raises the network security performance bar and delivers unmatched protection, flexibility and usability for a fraction of the cost of other solutions, providing our channel partners a differentiated product that they can successfully sell throughout the midmarket enterprise."
Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated network security appliances designed to deliver a customer's choice of one or a full-suite of best in class security features in real-time -- including antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion detection/prevention, content filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping. The FortiGate family of systems spans the full range of network environments -- including all-sized businesses from small offices to large enterprises, managed security service providers (MSSPs) and carriers -- and offers cost effective systems for a best in class suite of ICSA-certified applications.
To read VARBusiness' 'State of the Midmarket' feature story, please visit:
http://www.varbusiness.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=161601604
For more information about Fortinet's FortiGate-500A systems, please visit:
http://www.fortinet.com/products/enterprise.html
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and 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 e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems are the only security products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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