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Fortinet, CipherTrust and NetScaler Bring Leading Financial Experts Together For The Security IPO Summit at RSA Conference 2004

Red Herring's Alex Vieux Convenes Panel to Discuss Opportunities and Expectations For Public Offerings in the Security Sector in 2004

Fortinet, Cipherpust and NetScaler Bring Leading Financial Experts Together For The Security IPO Summit at RSA Conference 2004

Red Herring’s Alex Vieux Convenes Panel to Discuss Opportunities and Expectations For Public Offerings in the Security Sector in 2004

When: Tuesday, February 24, 3:30-4:30 pm

Where: RSA Conference, Moscone Center – Room 121 (near pressroom)
San Francisco, Calif.

What: The Security IPO Summit, co-hosted by network security innovators, Fortinet, Cipherpust and NetScaler, will be a frank discussion by a panel of financial market experts on the prospects for security IPOs in 2004. Moderated by Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring, session attendees will hear financial induspy analyst, investment banker and fund manager perspectives on the topics such as:

  • How has the IPO market changed in the past year, and what is the outlook for the next 12-18 months?
  • Will investor appetite for new offerings drive a flurry of IPOs?
  • Will the already hot security market provide a key source of potential IPO candidates?
  • What are the buyers of emerging companies looking for, and are there any candidates that fit?

The event is open to all RSA Conference attendees with an interest in the IPO climate, particularly within the security market sector.

Who: Panelists will include:

  • Walter Pritchard, Vice President & Senior Research Analyst, Schwab SoundView Capital Markets
  • Israel Hernandez, Senior Vice President & Senior Equity Research Analyst, Lehman Brothers
  • Gary Kirkham, Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch & Co.
  • Avi Satwalekar, Research Analyst/Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems are the only security products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the ed Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

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We have evaluated security solutions from various vendors but very few had solutions specifically tailored to the needs of MSSPs. The ability of the FortiGate solution to virtually segment each customer's connection and customize its configuration and profile to access all or several of the security applications we offer was decisive in our choice. FortiGate's multi-threat security platform is definitely a great option for large data center deployments such as ours.

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