Fortinet Executives to Present at the RBC Capital Markets North American Technology Conference 2004

SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 2, 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 and CFO Harold Covert will present at the RBC Capital Markets North American Technology Conference 2004 in Half Moon Bay, CA at the Ritz Carlton on Monday, August 2, at 3:15 p.m. PST. Addressing an audience of institutional and venture investors, Xie and Covert will discuss Fortinet's corporate and product strategy, and the network security requirements that are driving rapid market adoption of the company's high-performance antivirus firewall solutions.

RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking arm of RBC Financial Group, the global brand name of Royal Bank of Canada. The firm is Canada's leading underwriter of debt and equity securities and ranks among the top 10 M&A advisors in North America. RBC Capital Markets North American Technology Conference 2004 will feature approximately 120 public and private technology companies from the U.S. and Canada. More information on the conference can be found at: http://www.rbccm.com/cm/file/0,,45986,00.doc

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.