Company Awarded Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" Private Companies Listing for Second Consecutive Year
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 25, 2006- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions- today announced it has been chosen by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as a "Fast 50" private company based on strong revenue growth over the past three years. This marks the second consecutive year Fortinet has made this coveted list.
For its 2006 "Fast 50" award, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal ranks private companies by percent revenue growth from 2003 to 2005. An impressive growth rate of during this period garnered Fortinet the #10 ranking on the Fast 50 list and serves as a testament to the strong demand for and increased market adoption of Fortinet's market-leading multi-threat security solutions.
"Since first introduced in 2002, Fortinet has shipped more than 150,000 systems to customers around the globe and has gone on to become the largest private company in the security industry," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO for Fortinet. "We are pleased to again receive the 'Fast 50' award by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, which recognizes and validates our impressive growth and market strength over the past three years."
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" story published as a special supplement in the publication's September 22, 2006 issue.
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 seven times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection and cleaning), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named a Light Reading Top 10 Private Company and #4 on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" list, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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