Fortinet's FortiGate Security Appliances Achieve NSS Certification for Unified Threat Management (UTM) Capabilities

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 19, 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 its FortiGate™-3600 systems have passed rigorous unified threat management (UTM) testing by The NSS Group, a prestigious independent security testing facility. The FortiGate-3600 enterprise security appliance, running with Fortinet's FortiOS 2.8 firmware, achieved the NSS Approved certification based on the performance, reliability, security effectiveness, and usability of its integrated UTM capabilities. With this recognition, Fortinet is one of only two vendors out of six test participants to gain NSS Approved certification after the first round of UTM testing. This adds to Fortinet's impressive portfolio of product certifications, which include NSS Approval for intrusion prevention systems (IPS), seven ICSA certifications (server antivirus, client antivirus cleaning and detection, firewall, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, NIDS), Common Criteria EAL 4+, and FIPS certification.

For its UTM test, The NSS Group evaluated the following capabilities within a single appliance form factor: firewall, antivirus, VPN, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), antispam, URL filtering and content filtering. Fortinet's FortiGate-800 enterprise security appliances also hold NSS Approved certification for intrusion prevention system (IPS) functionality, demonstrating the strong capabilities of both its standalone security applications and integrated unified threat management functionality. Fortinet's FortiGate systems are the only security appliances on the market that have received NSS Approved certification for UTM and IPS capabilities.

"Fortinet's FortiGate-3600 system impressed The NSS Group with its integrated unified threat management capabilities that proved robust throughout our test in the areas of performance, reliability, security effectiveness, and usability," said Bob Walder, director of The NSS Group. "We found the FortiGate-3600 system to perform well whether running single security applications or all unified threat management applications at the same time."

A Commitment to Excellence: Industry Leading FortiGate Systems
The NSS Group found Fortinet's FortiGate systems noteworthy because they integrate strong unified threat management capabilities within a single ASIC-accelerated enterprise security appliance, to provide protection against evolving network threats while achieving high performance and reliability. This UTM approach is also endorsed by leading industry experts such as market research firm IDC, who predicts that the UTM market, of which Fortinet is the confirmed leader, will be among the fastest-growing markets in the security sector because UTM systems offer substantial advantages for multi-threat protection and cost-efficiencies.

Fortinet's FortiGate-3600 system is an ASIC-accelerated enterprise security appliance that integrates essential unified threat management capabilities such as firewall, antivirus, VPN, IPS, antispam, Web filtering and traffic shaping. Additionally, the FortiGate-3600 system features four Gigabit fibre and two Gigabit copper ports, and delivers a maximum throughput of 4 Gbps.

"With this latest certification, Fortinet is the first security vendor to receive NSS Approved certification for Unified Threat Management and Intrusion Prevention, demonstrating the strong integrated and stand-alone security functionality within our industry leading FortiGate security systems," said Michael Xie, founder, CTO and vice president of engineering for Fortinet. "This recognition adds to the growing list of endorsements and accolades that our security solutions have received, and is a testament to the commitment that Fortinet makes to develop and deliver high performance, reliable security systems that address the protection requirements for networks of all sizes."

Full product evaluations from the first round of UTM testing can be found on The NSS Group Web site at: www.nss.co.uk/utm

To learn more about Fortinet's products, please visit: www.fortinet.com/products/

About The NSS Group (www.nss.co.uk)
The NSS Group is the world's foremost independent security testing facility. With British headquarters, and security and network infrastructure testing facilities in the South of France, The NSS Group offers a range of specialist IT, networking and security related services to vendors and end-user organizations world-wide.

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. Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified six times over by the ICSA (server antivirus, client antivirus, firewall, IPSec, SSL, 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.