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Company also Ranked as Leader in Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela
SUNNYVALE, Calif, - Nov 29, 2007
- Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that new IDC research
data confirms that it is No. 1 in Latin America for overall UTM units shipped for the first
half of 2007. Fortinet is also the worldwide leader in UTM factory revenue for the same
time period.
Data in IDC’s Latin America Semi-Annual Security Appliance Tracker, 1H 2007 confirmed:
- Fortinet is the overall leader in UTM units shipped for 1H 2007
- Fortinet is the No. 1 vendor in UTM units shipped and factory revenue for Mexico
- Fortinet is the No. 1 vendor in UTM units shipped in Colombia and Venezuela
"Fortinet has seen an increasing demand in Latin America for flexible, scalable,
comprehensive security systems that can meet the needs of large enterprises and managed
security service providers," said Pedro Paixao, Fortinet’s regional director for Latin America. "IDC's latest research report confirms that Fortinet’s solutions are being
adopted as the UTM standard throughout the region."
IDC defines UTM security appliance products as those that integrate multiple security
features within one device, including network firewalling, network intrusion detection
and prevention (IDP), and gateway anti-virus. Fortinet takes UTM further through its
family of award-winning FortiGate™ multi-threat security systems that integrate eight
essential security applications and services - including firewall, antivirus, virtual private
network (VPN), intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic
shaping - that can be deployed individually, or combined as a UTM solution.
For more information on Fortinet solutions, please visit: www.fortinet.com/products.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, 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, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level 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 in six programs by ICSA Labs: (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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