Fortinet's Christine Braud Named one of the Most Powerful Women in the Technology Channel by CMP Channel's VARBusiness Magazine

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug 7, 2007 - Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that Christine Braud, a channel director for Fortinet, was named one of the most powerful women in the technology channel by CMP Channel's VARBusiness Magazine, the leading source of channel intelligence and strategic insight for IT Solution Providers.

The second annual VARBusiness Power 50 Women of the Channel awards honor the female executives making the biggest impact in the IT channel. The list celebrates outstanding female leaders and role models for other women in the traditionally male-dominated IT industry.

Braud, who joined Fortinet in March 2006, brought with her more than 10 years of channel marketing and industry experience, including previously holding channel positions at Secure Computing and SonicWALL. Since joining Fortinet, Braud has led many important channel initiatives, including officially launching the company's award-winning FortiPartner Program, which earned Fortinet a coveted Five-Star Vendor Award from VARBusiness two years in a row.

"Christine's channel and security background and leadership have been instrumental in creating and growing Fortinet's world-class FortiPartner program and partner base," said Michael Valentine, vice president of Americas channel sales for Fortinet. "While always maintaining a necessary pulse on the channel, Christine works closely with our partners to meet their varying requirements and consistently drives effective channel programs, promotions and communications. This is a well-deserved honor."

The three-tier FortiPartner Program provides platinum, gold and silver partners with access to a deal registration element as well as easy access to a recurring revenue stream through Fortinet's FortiGuard™ family of real-time security subscription services. Additionally, solutions are selectively distributed and all purchases require a reseller agreement; product access is limited by partner tier and certification requirements.

FortiPartners not only benefit from the channel program enhancements, but from Fortinet's market-leading multi-threat security systems. FortiGate™ systems integrate eight essential security applications and services, enabling partners to flexibly recommend, sell and deploy tailored solutions for their customers. Unique to Fortinet is its FortiGuard subscription services - antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, and anti-spam - that provide updates for customer systems to help protect them against security threats. This provides Fortinet partners the opportunity for a recurring revenue stream, and allows them to centrally manage all customer subscription renewals via one system and one vendor.

"Successful channel partner programs are made so through the dedication of the channel executives who oversee them. The CMP Channel is proud to honor those women whose commitment to the channel has improved the profitability of their solution provider partners," said Robert C. DeMarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP Channel.

The VARBusiness Power 50 Women in the Channel can be viewed by visiting http://crn.com/womeninthechannel/.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by ICSA Labs (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IPS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

About VARBusiness (www.varbusiness.com)
For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design.

About CMP Channel Group (www.cmpchannelgroup.com)
CMP Channel Group is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, the Group's XChange worldwide face-to-face conferences and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel Group provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors.

About CMP Technology (www.cmp.com)
CMP Technology is a marketing-solutions company serving the technology industry. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP has earned the confidence of more technology professionals than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.