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Fortinet Acquires Assets of EastForti; Move Strengthens its Mobile Security Market Opportunity and China Leadership Team

EastForti CEO Haifeng Gong Becomes Fortinet China Country Manger

BEIJING - November 27, 2008 - Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, today announced it has acquired assets from EastForti, a Beijing-based developer and distributor of mobile smart phone client and server applications to approximately 150,000 users across China. Under the terms of the acquisition, Fortinet is acquiring key personnel, technology and customers from EastForti in a move to broaden its opportunity in the mobile security market as well and strengthen its leadership team in China. The financial terms of the acquisition are confidential.

EastForti is the second-largest mobile security service provider and intelligent mobile content provider in China. The company develops, markets and sells through key carrier and enterprise channels a variety of consumer-focused mobile handset applications, as well as OEMs and resells Fortinet's FortiClient™ Mobile, a comprehensive integrated security agent for smart phones and other mobile devices. EastForti has been an OEM partner of Fortinet's since 2006, helping to gain market traction for the FortiClient™ Mobile product in China through key channel relationships with large carriers such as China Mobile.

New China Country Manager Appointment

In conjunction with this acquisition, Haifeng Gong, founder, president and CEO of EastForti, is joining Fortinet as China Country Manager. Mr. Gong will be responsible for leading local sales and channel marketing strategy and execution, with the goal of driving growth for Fortinet in the region. Mr. Gong is an established executive with nearly 20 years of sales and management experience. Prior to EastForti, Mr. Gong founded and served as president and CEO of East.Net Co., the largest independent Internet Service Provider (ISP) in China and acquired by Stone Electric Co., Ltd in 2003. Additionally, Mr. Gong was co-founder and general manager of China's fifth-largest pager company, Haihua Communication Co., Ltd.

"By joining forces with EastForti via this asset acquisition, Fortinet is gaining superior talent, technology and customers that can help us both grow our overall business in China as well as our share of the mobile security market opportunity that is fast emerging in the region," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO of Fortinet. "Additionally, our China team will benefit under the leadership of Haifeng Gong, a respected and experienced executive. We are pleased to welcome him and his team to the Fortinet."

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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 in six programs by ICSA Labs: (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

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