Fortinet’s CEO Ken Xie to Present On Next Generation Security Technologies For Data Centers At Silicon Valley Event

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – February 5, 2004 -- Fortinet – the only provider of ASICpowered, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection – will be participating in a panel discussion regarding Next Generation Data Center Technologies on February 9, 2004 at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara. President and Chief Executive Officer Ken Xie will join leading technology experts to discuss and debate trends, opportunities and the overall impact of next generation data center
technologies on today's enterprises.

The event is sponsored by the TiE SIG (special interest group) of Silicon Valley and is expected to draw an audience of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and CEO-level executives. TiE is a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals.

The event begins at 5:30 p.m. The panel discussion is expected to begin at approximately 6:30 p.m. For more information about the TiE Next Generation Data Center Technologies event visit http://www.tie.org/site/Events/TiE_SIGS_FEB9/view.

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.