Fortinet Named "Best Antivirus Solution" Finalist for Secure Computing (SC) Magazine's Global 2005 Reader Trust Awards

SUNNYVALE, Calif., December 20, 2004 - Fortinet - the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management (UTM) and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection - today announced that the company's FortiGate family of systems has been named a Reader's Trust award finalist for "Best Antivirus Solution" in the SC Magazine Global Awards 2005. Finalists for this prestigious award were determined by more than 50,000 users of information security products and services who voted online during a two month period.

"It is an outstanding honor that SC Magazine readers and global users of security technology have recognized Fortinet as a leading provider of antivirus technology," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO of Fortinet. "This nomination is a testament to the security and performance innovation that Fortinet delivers in our FortiGate systems, and our commitment to providing real-time complete content protection to thousands of customers worldwide."

Fortinet's award winning ASIC-accelerated FortiGate systems deliver real-time complete content protection through the integration of a broad range of security functions -- including antivirus, firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), intrusion detection and prevention, content filtering, traffic shaping, and anti-spam. All of Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ICSA-certified four times over, easy to manage and provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection at the network edge. FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically through Fortinet's FortiProtect™ Network, which delivers continuous and automatic signature 'push' updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and other intrusion threats - around the clock, and around the world.

SC Magazine Global Award 2005 winners will be determined by SC Magazine judges and announced at a gala dinner in San Francisco on February 16, 2005.

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.