Fortinet Establishes New Global Headquarters

SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 14, 2005 - Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection - today announced that it has moved its headquarters to a new larger building to accommodate its growing staff, expanded operations, and increased sales and customer demand.

The new upgraded facility - a roughly 120,000 square foot building located at 1090 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale, California - doubles the size of Fortinet's previous headquarters and provides a state of the art manufacturing and shipping facility and a customer briefing center. It will house approximately 150 employees in the corporate/financial, engineering, legal, marketing, operations and sales functions. Since its founding in 2000, Fortinet has moved to upgraded headquarters five times in five years - a testament to the company's significant growth and market success.

"Since founding the company five years ago Fortinet has grown to 550 employees and gone on to become one of the fastest growing network security companies in history," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO of Fortinet. "Our new headquarters are representative of our past and future growth and success and provide us with the scalability to expand as needed. I am excited to continue to build and lead my team from here."

To support its global sales efforts, Fortinet also maintains regional offices in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and the UK.

Effective immediately, Fortinet's corporate headquarters contact information is:

1090 Kifer Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Tel: 408-235-7700
Fax: 408-235-7737
Sales: 866-868-3678
Tech Support: 866-648-4638

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, 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.