Fortinets CEO Ken Xie to Present
at Lehman Brothers 2004 Global Software and IT Services Conference
SUNNYVALE, Calif, March 5, 2004 Fortinet
the only provider of ASIC-powered, network-based antivirus
firewall systems for real-time network protection today
announced that its Founder, President and CEO Ken Xie will
present at The Lehman
Brothers 2004 Global Software and IT Services Conference at
10:30 a.m. on March 8, 2004 at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Half
Moon Bay, Calif. Addressing an audience of institutional investors
and financial analysts, Xie will discuss Fortinets corporate
and product strategy, and the network security requirements
that are driving rapid market adoption of the companys
high-performance antivirus firewall solutions.
Lehman Brothers is a global investment bank that serves the
financial needs of corporations, government, institutional
clients, and individuals worldwide. Their annual Global Software
and IT Services conference feature presentations from industry-leading
companies that offer global perspectives on trends within
the enterprise, infrastructure, security, storage, Internet,
outsourcing, consulting and systems integration sectors. More
information on the conference can be found at:
http://www.lehman.com/conferences/200403SoftwareITServices/welcome.htm
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 Chunghwa Customer Win Release - 4
Visionaries category in the 2003 Gartner Enterprise
Firewall Magic Quadrant, Fortinet is privately held and based
in Sunnyvale, California.