BANGKOK, Thailand September 11, 2009 - Fortinet^® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced the appointment of Peerapong Jongvibool as the new country manager for Thailand. His responsibilities include driving Fortinets ground strategy to enable sales, marketing and channel development. Peerapong is also committed to delivering exceptional customer experience in the country.

With more than fifteen years experience in the technology sector, he was previously the sales manager reaching out to enterprises and service providers at Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to that, Peerapong was responsible for regional business consultancy and market development for Sumitomo Corporation in the South Asia region. On his on-boarding experience, Peerapong Jongvibool, country manager for Thailand added, ÏI am proud to be a part of Fortinet, a well-respected, leading security vendor in Thailand. With teamwork, we will continue to drive towards building a strong network of trust with our partners and end customers in the country.

Benjamin Teh, Fortinets regional director Asia South and Hong Kong added, ÏWe are pleased to have Peerapong onboard; his strong track record in the industry will serve to support his leadership role for the country. I am confident that his work will take Fortinet onto the next stage of growth in Thailand.

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.