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Fortinet, CipherTrust and NetScaler Bring
Leading Financial Experts Together For The Security IPO Summit
at RSA Conference 2004
Red Herrings Alex Vieux Convenes
Panel to Discuss Opportunities and Expectations For Public
Offerings in the Security Sector in 2004
| When: |
Tuesday, February 24, 3:30-4:30 pm |
| Where: |
RSA Conference, Moscone Center Room 121 (near
pressroom)
San Francisco, Calif. |
| What: |
The Security IPO Summit, co-hosted by network security
innovators, Fortinet, CipherTrust and NetScaler, will
be a frank discussion by a panel of financial market experts
on the prospects for security IPOs in 2004. Moderated
by Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring, session
attendees will hear financial industry analyst, investment
banker and fund manager perspectives on the topics such
as:
- How has the IPO market changed in the past year,
and what is the outlook for the next 12-18 months?
- Will investor appetite for new offerings drive a
flurry of IPOs?
- Will the already hot security market provide a key
source of potential IPO candidates?
- What are the buyers of emerging companies looking
for, and are there any candidates that fit?
The event is open to all RSA Conference attendees with
an interest in the IPO climate, particularly within the
security market sector. |
| Who: |
Panelists will include:
- Walter Pritchard, Vice President & Senior Research
Analyst, Schwab SoundView Capital Markets
- Israel Hernandez, Senior Vice President & Senior
Equity Research Analyst, Lehman Brothers
- Gary Kirkham, Managing Director, Technology Investment
Banking, Merrill Lynch & Co.
- Avi Satwalekar, Research Analyst/Portfolio Manager,
Franklin Templeton
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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.
About CipherTrust
Headquartered in Atlanta, CipherTrust, Inc. is a global email
security company, setting new standards in the development
of comprehensive security solutions for enterprise email systems.
The companys IronMail appliance is the only product
on the market offering an integrated set of best-of-breed
security solutions, including spam protection, virus prevention,
intrusion detection and flexible policy controls. CipherTrusts
IronMail provides a secure email gateway for the enterprise,
and earned PC Magazines Editors Choice Award for
corporate anti-spam tools. For more information about CipherTrust,
visit www.ciphertrust.com
or call 877.448.8625.
About NetScaler
NetScaler provides networking systems that enable the fast
and secure delivery of applications over web-based networks.
Uniquely integrating application-layer security, optimization
and switching capabilities, NetScaler's 9000 Series optimizes
the application performance and security of many of the world's
largest data centers and websites, while greatly reducing
cost of ownership. NetScaler headquarters are in Santa Clara,
California, and the Company's products are available both
direct and through a variety of channel partners globally.
For more information, visit http://www.netscaler.com.
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QUICK FACTS
Year Founded
2000
Stock Symbol
NASDAQ: FTNT
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Number of Employees
1,200+
Financial Highlights
FY09 Revenue: $252M
$260M+ cash and no debt
Profitable
First Product Release
May 2002
Units Shipped to Date
500,000+
Customers
75,000+ customers
Market Leadership
WW UTM Factory Revenue Leader
Top 4 Largest Network Security Appliance Vendor
Patents
40 patents
100+ patents pending
Industry Accolades
80+ awards, including:
Security Product of the Year
Best Integrated Security Appliance
Best IPS solution
Top Mid-market Solution
2006 Technology Pioneer
6 ICSA security certifications
NSS certified (UTM)
ISO 9001 certified
Corporate and Securities Counsel
Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
Palo Alto, California
Auditors
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
San Jose, California
Our customers were looking for an alternate and trustworthy way to protect their networks without the need to have appliances at their site, so a virtualized integrated security service, with its related capital- and operational-expenditure savings, is the right solution for many companies. Fortinet has one of the richest security virtualization offering in the industry, so we knew that, with Fortinet, we were partnering with the pre-eminent technology leader in the field.
Adam Rice, Vice President SSOC
Tata Communications
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