MUMBAI, India - March 23, 2009 - Fortinet^® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced that the company has launched a new authorized training centre at Tech Pacific India Ltd. (Tech Pacific) training facility in Kanjurmarg, Mumbai. This move is intended to strengthen Fortinets channel support in India by improving partner and end-user training resources in the country. The two courses being offered currently include the Fortinet Certified Network Security Administrator (FCNSA) course modules 201 and 301, which offer training on administration and content inspection for the FortiGate® multi-threat security appliance, Fortinets flagship product. The courses should be taken consecutively to provide participants the ability to fully configure and manage FortiGate systems.

According to Vishak aman, egional Director for Fortinet India and SAAC, ÏThis is a key development for Fortinet India, as having ground training support services will help users better understand our products and maximize their benefits. This move is also timely, as the current economic downturn is creating strong demand for FortiGate appliances due to the CAPEX and OPEX savings they offer customers. In addition, we would like to thank Ingram Micro for access to their state-of-the-art training facilities. Tech Pacific is a subsidiary of Ingram Micro, a Fortinet distribution partner in India.

To concur, Mr. K. Jaishankar, Director, Tech Pacific added, ÏWe are pleased to partner with Fortinet to launch this training initiative. Fortinet is a fast-growing security vendor with an excellent value proposition for providing strong cost-performance advantage to end-customers. This initiative would strengthen our partners technical capabilities and help promote Fortinet solutions more effectively. Also, training to end-users will help them manage their security infrastructure efficiently. We are committed to growing the Indian market with Fortinet.

For more information or to sign up for the FCNSA certification courses, please contact training@ingrammicro.co.in.

FortiGate systems deliver real-time network protection through the integration of essential security applications and services including firewall, antivirus, VPN, IPS, anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping that can be deployed individually, or combined as a UTM solution. All FortiGate systems are kept up-to-date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuardÌ¢åãå¢ Subscription Service, which provides broad updates that help provide protection against the most damaging threats commonly found in email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, vulnerability exploit attempts and other unwanted network traffic - around the clock and around the world.