Fortinet to Present at Thomas Weisel Partners Tech 2004 Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 2, 2004 – Fortinet – the only provider of ASIC-powered, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection – will be presenting at the Thomas Weisel Partners Tech 2004 Conference in San Francisco on February 4 at the Fairmont Hotel. President and chief executive officer Ken Xie will address key institutional investors and analysts at 10:20 a.m. PST on the company's leading security technology, rapid market acceptance, and key plans for 2004 and beyond. Of the more than 140 companies scheduled to present at the conference, Fortinet is one of only a small number of privately held companies participating in the by-invitation-only event.

Thomas Weisel Partners is a merchant bank providing investment banking, institutional brokerage, private client services, private equity investing and asset management exclusively focused on the growth sectors of the economy. The Firm's distinctive competence is combining deep domain expertise with bulge bracket execution capability. The team at Thomas Weisel Partners has approximately 500 employees, including 64 partners, and is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York, Boston and Menlo Park.

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 “Visionaries” category in the 2003 Gartner Enterprise Firewall Magic Quadrant, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.