Fortinet, Frost & Sullivan and ISSA Address Security in a Dynamic Network Threat Environment

In Free Webinar, Industry Experts Discuss How to Secure an Ever-Expanding Network Perimeter

Sunnyvale, Calif., June 30, 2004 - Fortinet - the only provider of ASIC-powered, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection - today announced it will participate in a free webinar, titled "The Expanding Security Perimeter", along with industry experts from Frost & Sullivan, a leading international consultancy, and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). This webinar will provide attendees with valuable information on how to protect ever-expanding network perimeters in today's dynamic and dangerous threat environment.

When: The webinar will be available beginning today, June 30, 2004. Attendees can register at: http://www.issa.org/webcast.html
What: "The Expanding Security Perimeter" - industry experts address one of the biggest challenges facing network security administrators today - protecting an ever-expanding network perimeter from today's sophisticated and dangerous threats. Attendees will hear compelling information that will help them better understand:
  • Security architectures that can deliver complete content protection in real-time
  • How to scale networks securely to handle higher speed throughput and defend against viruses, worms and blended security attacks
  • How to know when to bolster your security defenses
Attendees will also receive a new, exclusive executive summary on trends in the Intrusion Prevention and Detection market, prepared by Frost & Sullivan.
Who: Presenters will include:
  • Jason Wright, program leader of security technologies, Frost & Sullivan
  • Richard Kagan, vice president at Fortinet
  • Jim Reavis, editor, CSOinformer; vice president, Information Systems Security Association; and president, Reavis Consulting Group

About Frost & Sullivan(www.frost.com)
Frost & Sullivan, an international growth consultancy, has been supporting clients' expansion for more than four decades. Our market expertise covers a broad spectrum of industries, while our portfolio of advisory competencies includes custom strategic consulting, market intelligence, and management training. Our mission is to forge partnerships with our clients' management teams to deliver market insights and to create value and drive growth through innovative approaches. Frost & Sullivan's network of consultants, industry experts, corporate trainers, and support staff spans the globe with offices in every major country.

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.




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



Not only is the volume of email traffic rising but with it, the complexity of malware with the presence of blended threats combining spam, viruses, worms and spyware. To help ensure optimum service and security for our customers, we needed an effective multi-layered solution that combined antivirus, anti-spam and anti-spyware technologies in one appliance. FortiMail met our performance requirements while providing ease-of-use and management to our IT team which is essential as we do not have the time or resources to deploy and maintain separate point solutions.

Gunther Fischer, Head of Product and Service Enabler for the IT & Networks business unit
H3G Austria