SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Dec. 15, 2008 - Fortinet^® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that independent research firm Current Analysis has given its coveted five-star rating to the company's FortiGate^® family of multi-threat network security appliances.

According to the "Fortinet FortiGate Security Appliances" profile report:

• The Fortinet FortiGate family of enterprise security appliances is very threatening in the enterprise firewall and VPN market
• Fortinet is well positioned to compete across multiple markets, from SOHO to enterprise and MSSP, and against far larger and more entrenched competitors
• Fortinet's FortiGate security solution rivals the best multi-service devices in the advanced firewall/VPN market
• Fortinet has received strong marks in enterprise-class product reviews for the flexibility and robustness of its policy engine.
• Fortinet offers a suite of logging and policy-based provisioning tools for large enterprise deployments. These tools centralize logging functions and configuration, policy, device management and security event analysis functions on dedicated management appliances.

"Fortinet has solidified its position with a combination of products and services that have generated strong customer momentum and have raised the company's profile across the market, putting growing pressure on incumbents from a feature, functionality and security services perspective," said Andrew Braunberg, research director, Current Analysis.

The product focus for the report, Fortinet's FortiGate line of new generation secure gateways marry the integration of network and content security with the high performance, leveraged through custom-designed ASICs, to provide real-time protection against an array of external and internal threats. The appliances include eight core security functions, including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), VPN, spyware prevention, antispam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping. Customers can choose to purchase FortiGate appliances for some or all of these functionalities, and a scalable path to address future requirements. This consolidated approach provides improved security through integration and reduced CapEx and OpEx by eliminating the need to purchase, manage and maintain multiple point solutions.

"Fortinet's vision for high-performance multi-threat security solutions continues to be validated by increased global enterprise customer adoption of our FortiGate solutions and premier independent research and recognition," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO of Fortinet. "Current Analysis' five-star rating of our FortiGate family highlights our market leadership and further underscores that we have the right vision and technology in place to meet the needs of enterprises."