Fortinet Appoints Ingram Micro Asia Limited as New Distributor in Singapore

Sunnyvale, Calif., June 15, 2004 - In a move to further strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific market, Fortinet, Inc., the only provider of ASIC-powered, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection, today announced that it has appointed Ingram Micro Asia Limited as an authorized distributor.

Ingram Micro is a Fortune 500 company and the world's largest technology distributor with offices in the USA, Europe, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Customers around the world benefit from the broad product range, fast delivery and high quality of service that have been the company's trademarks. The authorization of this distributorship has allowed Ingram Micro to extend its scope into the security space, allowing reseller and integrator customers increased access to Fortinet's technological innovation and best-in-class security products.

F. Matthew Young, Fortinet's vice president of Asia Pacific, said that Ingram Micro Asia Limited will be a significant asset in Fortinet's portfolio of distributors. The company's international experience has led to the development of a highly efficient distribution system that ensures customers using Fortinet's FortiGate?Antivirus Firewalls will receive what they need promptly and with excellent support services.

"Ingram Micro fits well into our distribution strategy and will complement our existing service to customers here," said Young. "Customers are increasingly asking for better, faster and more responsive service. By appointing a distributor of this caliber we are giving our customers broader choices and ensuring that their requirements will be met by our local partners."

Dennis Kay, divisional manager (Networking) of Ingram Micro Asia Limited, is delighted with the appointment and is very much looking forward to working with Fortinet.

"Fortinet has rapidly established a strong position in the security appliance market with its broad array of highly functional, high performance, competitively priced FortiGate systems," said Kay. "The ability to deliver Fortinet's antivirus firewall products complements and extends our security portfolio and provides an important new product line for our reseller partners. With the power of Ingram Micro's worldwide distribution systems behind us, we're looking forward to delivering excellent products and services to Fortinet's customers in Asia."

FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls are the industry's only ASIC-based integrated security platforms which 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. In addition to providing application level protection, the FortiGate systems deliver a full range of network-level services - firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping - delivering a complete network protection services in dedicated, easily managed platforms.

For more information on Fortinet's FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls and other Fortinet products, please visit: http://www.fortinet.com/products

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate - series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and 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 e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems are the only security products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.