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Segment Commemorates 20th Anniversary of Computer Virus
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 1, 2006
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions
- was recently featured as a security industry expert in an evening ABC News broadcast recognizing the 20th anniversary of the computer virus.
In the Aug. 24 news segment, hosted by reporter David Louie, Fortinet's Vice President of Marketing Chris Roeckl
discusses the evolution of the computer virus from the historical one-off attacks to the now predominant sophisticated blended
threats and malicious attacks. The broadcast can be streamed online at:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=business&id=4494545.
Fortinet provides comprehensive protection from network and content security threats through its family of FortiGate multi-threat security appliances which integrate eight essential security applications and services - including antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-spam, anti-spyware, Web filtering and traffic shaping. The systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard subscription services, which provide continuous updates to ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats - around the clock, and around the world.
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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