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Adif Chooses Fortinet's FortiMail as its Email Security Platform

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 28, 2010 - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -today announced that Adif, the Spanish Administrator of ailway Infrastructures, has selected its FortiMail™ messaging security solution for antivirus and antispam protection. The public organization has opted for Fortinet's technology because it met Adif's high level of compliance and performance requirements. In total, more than 10,000 internal email users will benefit from the security level delivered by the FortiMail messaging platform.

Previously, Adif was using free security software to clean emails but that solution failed to deliver the level of functionality and support the company required. After analyzing several market solutions and launching a public FP, in 2009 Adif opted for Fortinet's FortiMail platform and decided to implement a cluster of FortiMail-2000A purpose -built email security appliances. One of the main reasons the Fortinet solution was selected was because of FortiMail's high level of functionality to address compliance and performance requirements.

According to Mariano Vera Sanchez, IT Security Chief Officer at Adif, "The FortiMail-2000A will enable us to filter spam or malware with a very low percentage of false positive/negative. Thanks to Fortinet's technology we have managed to reduce the configuration time, as well as handle quarantine in a personalized way by integrating authentication with our corporate directory."

"FortiMail is a robust solution, purpose-built to handle inbound and outbound messaging security for the company, providing an intuitive and user-friendly interface for administration," Vera Sanchez added. "Thanks to this new tool we now have automatic statistics and indicators that enable us to create dashboards simply, as we need them."

The FortiMail family of appliances delivers email security to any size organization, from small businesses to carriers, service providers and large companies. Purpose-built for the most demanding messaging systems, FortiMail appliances utilize Fortinet's years of experience in protecting networks against spam, malware and other message-borne threats.

About Adif

Adif, the Administrator of ailway Infrastructures, is a state-owned company that answers to the Ministerio de Fomento. Adif plays a leading role in promoting the railway sector, working towards converting it into the ideal mode of transport and facilitating access to the infrastructure under fair conditions.

Its aim is to promote the Spanish railway system by means of the development and management of a safe, efficient and sustainable infrastructure to the highest quality standards in environmental terms.

About FortiGate
Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate core security and network functionalities including firewall, SSL and IPSec VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antispam, application control, data loss prevention, SSL traffic inspection and WAN optimization. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard Network, which helps protect against the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, other unwanted network traffic and more - around the clock and around the world. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards and are the only security products that are certified in five programs by ICSA Labs for firewall, antivirus, IPSec VPN, network IPS and antispam.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

Copyright © 2010 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, Fortieporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, Fortiesponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements, recognitions or certifications herein attributed to third parties, such as ICSA Labs, and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements.

About Fortinet(www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

Copyright © 2010 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, Fortieporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, Fortiesponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiAP, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties, such as statements attributed to IDC, and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. This news release may contain forward-looking statements, such as statements regarding trends of adoption by large enterprises and the ongoing adoption by MSSPs, carriers and small to medium businesses, that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. isks and uncertainties include, among others, changes in market dynamics, changes in demand for UTM and other solutions, the introduction of new competitive solutions, economic risks and uncertainties, execution risks and uncertainties related, for example, to new product introductions and innovations, and other risk factors set forth from time to time in our filings with the SEC, copies of which are available free of charge at the SECs website at www.sec.gov or upon request from Fortinets investor relations department. If the risks or uncertainties materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Fortinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in the event actual results differ, and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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