New Product Line from Fortinet Provides Consolidated Logging and Reporting Across Multiple Security Functions and Sites

SAN FRANCISCO/RSA CONFERENCE 2004, Calif., Feb. 24, 2004 – Fortinet – the only provider of ASIC-powered, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection – today announced the FortiLog family of integrated logging
appliances, designed to meet the growing need for reliable, secure collection and detailed analysis of network usage and security data. A series of dedicated hardware devices, the FortiLog appliances provide IT administrators with a unified, comprehensive view of network and security activity by aggregating data from multiple FortiGate™ antivirus firewalls systems. FortiLog appliances provide a more cost effective, reliable, and secure method for gathering and analyzing log data and provide administrators with the information they need to more quickly and easily address network security vulnerabilities and meet governmental regulations regarding privacy and disclosure.

Combating Security Challenges with Real-Time Intelligence
Governmental agencies have imposed compliance standards for security upon enterprises, holding them legally responsible for protecting customer and corporate data. Regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes- Oxley and California’s SB1386 require that businesses maintain comprehensive log reports that track and record network activity in the event of a security breach or corporate investigation. In addition, companies increasingly rely upon network activity information to identify internal security threats and to provide forensic data for use in enforcing acceptable use policies. As a result, security logging is no longer a choice but a necessity for protecting organizations against potential risks and liabilities.

At the same time, the number of viruses, worms, intrusions, and other network attacks has increased, and the time allotted to reacting to them has gone from hours to minutes to seconds. Network security administrators must quickly understand if and how their network has been affected and cannot afford to spend time combing through security incident logs from multiple security systems and attempt to piece together a verdict.

Fortinet’s FortiGate line of antivirus firewalls solve a key part of the logging challenge because they deliver a comprehensive set of security functions that provide a rich variety of log data from a single system. This eliminates the need to collect, aggregate, correlate and analyze data from numerous independent systems, such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, antivirus software, web content filtering systems, and the like. FortiLog systems further enhance any FortiGate deployment by eliminating the need to procure servers for log storage, to provide for the security of log transmissions, and to purchase separate reporting tools. Instead, the FortiLog systems secure the connections to multiple FortiGate units and provide centralized, robust and secure data collection and reporting.

“Key to maintaining security is to understand network activity and attack patterns, but doing so poses a challenge for administrators because the necessary information usually resides on many different systems,” said Richard Kagan, vice president of marketing for Fortinet, Inc. “Fortinet’s FortiLog integrated logging appliances alleviate administrative burdens and extend the cost, efficiency and security benefits of FortiGate antivirus firewalls by consolidating vast amounts of data into actionable information, making it quicker and easier to protect the enterprise and comply with government regulations.”

The FortiLog Family of Security Logging Solutions
The FortiLog family includes the FortiLog-100, 400 and 800 systems which provide scalable levels of storage, performance and functionality to meet the varied needs of enterprises and service providers. The FortiLog-100 provides 120 GB of storage and
logging for up to 10 FortiGate antivirus firewall systems. The FortiLog-400 and the FortiLog-800 both have storage capacities of 360 GB and can be configured at RAID levels 0, 1, 3 and 5 depending on the desired levels of capacity and data assurance. The FortiLog-400 system supports logging for up to 25 FortiGate systems and the FortiLog- 800 supports logging for up to 100 systems. Log data security is ensured through IPSec VPN tunnels that securely transmit log data from FortiGate systems to FortiLog systems.

FortiLog systems utilize an easy-to-use Web interface that provides administrators with a single, centralized view of network utilization, web activity and attack activity. A convenient, built-in report generator lets administrators quickly gain useful analysis on network attacks, network traffic patterns, web usage, and other key events to support security response, network planning, acceptable use enforcement and compliance with regulations.

Distribution and Availability
The FortiLog-100, FortiLog-400 and FortiLog-800 will be available in March via Fortinet’s global network of authorized distributors and resellers. More information on these and other Fortinet solutions can be found at: www.fortinet.com.

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.