SINGAPOE - July 10, 2009 - Fortinet^® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced the appointment of Pacific Tech as Fortinets distributor in Singapore. The partnership will help strengthen market synergy for Fortinet, as it will create a solid foundation to further penetrate the key verticals such as financial services, education, carrier and government. This partnership is built upon the vision of Pacific Tech to be the trusted alliance for end customers and evangelize Fortinets presence in the channels.

According to Andy Woo, director of sales and marketing at Pacific Tech, ÏWe are excited by our partnership with Fortinet, as both management teams recognize the great value Fortinets security technology can bring to end users. Pacific Tech believes in reaching out to connect the dots for enterprises by articulating the business drivers and value behind the technology for the end user. The creation of this company came about, as we realized the gap for partners to truly understand end customers need and generate demand for vendors in the targeted space directly. Thus, this makes Pacific Tech an ideal partner for Fortinet to deepen its traction in the enterprise space.

Pacific Tech will carry the entire Fortinet security product line to offer enterprise customers an end-to-end security strategy that extends from the client, to databases, to Web applications, to the overall network. To further underscore this partnership, Benjamin Teh, Fortinets regional director for Asia South and Hong Kong added, ÏFortinets stand as the worldwide leading, dedicated network security vendor will help Pacific Tech evangelize our offerings for the marketplace in Singapore. Built upon the foundation of intensive research and bedrock of security patents, Fortinet started in 2000 to provide a holistic and comprehensive consolidated security approach for companies of all sizes. This vision has only strengthened further in the recent economic backdrop, as organizations in the world align with our value proposition. Enterprises, governments and carriers alike are looking for a cost-efficient security solution to secure their best assets against the blended threatscape today.

Fortinets FortiGate® systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate essential security applications such as antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard® Network, which helps ensure protection 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.