Korea Telecom Directory Chooses Fortinet's FortiGate-400 Antivirus Firewall to Secure its Network of 22 Million Subscribers

SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 16, 2004 - Fortinet, Inc., the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection, today announced that Korea Telecom Directory has installed the FortiGate™-400 enterprise-class antivirus firewall system to protect its network of more than 22 million subscribers.

Korea Telecom Directory previously provided phone directory services through booklets and CD-ROMs using an integrated brand called "Superpage". More recently, the company moved towards an electronic business model to leverage the cost and accessibility advantages of the Internet. To protect the integrity and confidentiality of data for its more than 22 million subscribers, as well as its own corporate network, the company needed to replace its previously ineffective antivirus software product with a comprehensive and powerful security solution.

Choi Jung-soo, an official of Korea Telecom Directory's system operation team, management strategy division, said: "Our previous antivirus solution failed to block attacks from certain worms and viruses, which led to a shutdown of the telephone directory database and caused something close to an emergency. Afterwards, we realized the necessity of getting a more effective and powerful security solution. After an evaluation, we chose the FortiGate-400 antivirus firewall for its impressive and comprehensive combination of security features and VPN functions."

Choi continued: "Since installing Fortinet's FortiGate-400 system, we haven't fallen victim to a single attack and have significantly reduced the amount of spam mail received. This is due to the complete content protection the systems provide in conjunction with Fortinet's FortiProtectTM Network which has immediately identified and pushed updates out to safeguard us from attacks as they have arisen."

Korea Telecom Directory purchased the FortiGate-400 Antivirus Firewall platform to protect its 10 corporate servers which link more than 170 individual client systems. Since implementing the Fortinet solution, Korea Telecom Directory has seen significant improvement in network security, performance and availability.

Fortinet's FortiGate-400 Antivirus Firewalls are high-performance hardware platforms that deliver complete real-time network protection at the network edge through the integration of a complete array of security services -- including antivirus, firewall, network-based intrusion detection/prevention (IDP), virtual private networking (VPN), Web content filtering, and traffic shaping. All FortiGate products are kept up-to-date against the latest threats via Fortinet's FortiProtect™ Network, which delivers continuous and automatic updates to FortiGate systems worldwide to ensure customers everywhere are always protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats.

"Any company conducting business over the Internet knows that the inaccessibility of information or slow network performance caused by a security attack could mean the loss of customers," said Jens Andreassen, Fortinet's vice president of international sales. "Millions of subscribers expect Korea Telecom Directory's online information to be available and reliable all the time. Fortinet's ASIC-accelerated FortiGate systems provide the high performance required to scan traffic and block threats in real-time - without affecting the speed or availability of the network."

About Korea Telecom Directory (www.isuperpage.co.kr)
Korea Telecom Directory was founded in 1966 as an entity to offer telephone directory services to the public. In 1997, the South Korean government pushed for privatization of Korea Telecom, the state-run telecom giant, and in the process Korea Telecom Directory was spun off from the parent company. Since then, the company has been implementing a series of improvements and innovative management initiatives in a bid to enhance the corporate culture and serve customers better. In addition, the company has diversified its businesses, making inroads into the online business. South Korea's largest Internet-based telephone directory ISUPERPAGE (www.isuperpage.co.kr) is one of the towering achievements Korea Telecom Directory has made in its latest initiatives. During the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup finals, the company ran a joint World Cup site (www.krjpyp.com) through a joint partnership program.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management market. The company'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.