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Fortinet Appoints Justin Lee Country Manager for South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea, April 19, 2007 - Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -today announced the appointment of Justin Lee as Country Manager for South Korea. Mr. Lee will be responsible for developing and growing Fortinet's business in South Korea, with a focus on enterprises, service providers, MSSP partners, and existing and future channel partners.

An industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the network and security industry, Justin Lee was most recently executive vice president of sales and marketing at Actela, a Korean security solutions and security services provider. Prior to Actela, he was vice president for sales and marketing at Power Line Communications (PLC) company Xeline, and director (engineering and pre-sales) at Novell. Mr. Lee started his technology career as a manager and project leader at Hyundai Electronics.

"Justin is a seasoned sales executive with strong contacts in South Korea and , and we are pleased to welcome to Fortinet," said Jens Andreassen, Fortinet's vice president for Asia-Pacific. "We believe that he will be a great asset in helping us sustain our growth in core markets as well as drive penetration into the large enterprise and service provider market segments."

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the pioneer and market-leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management 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, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended 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 the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

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