SEOUL, South Korea, June 7, 2006-- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions- today announced that the Gyeongnam Provincial Office has successfully deployed two units of Fortinet's carrier-class FortiGate™-5020 unified threat management platforms and one FortiBridge™-1000F failover protection system to serve as the high-availability (HA) security infrastructure of Gyeongnam's e-government initiative. The new security infrastructure was deployed by Fortinet channel partner Nanopol, through SK Networks, and is designed to protect the government against network threats, such as viruses, Trojans and worms.

Critical to winning this first large-scale deployment of Fortinet solutions in a South Korean government organization was the entry of South Korea into the CCA (Common Criteria ecognition Arrangement), which allows foreign companies to compete for local government, public and financial projects.

Fortinet's carrier-class FortiGate-5020 systems deliver the protection, reliability, performance and deployment flexibility that governments like the Gyeongman Provincial Office demand. The modular AdvancedTCA (ATCA)-compliant systems include an array of security functions deployed on blades, hot-swappable power and fan modules for high availability power and cooling, gigabit-speed Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) ports and gigabit ethernet ports. The system's backplane interconnect provides a hardwired high availability connectivity for active-active and active-passive failover configurations. All FortiGate-5000 series units are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard?Subscription Services, which provide continuous updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats - around the clock, and around the world. Fortinet's FortiBridge-1000F provides failover protection for FortiGate units, and features multiple failure detection technologies and ZeroPower Fail Open technology that prevents disruption of network traffic in event of power failure.

"The Gyeongnam Provincial Office project is significant in many ways, but most importantly, it is one of the first large-scale projects undertaken since South Korea's entry into the CCA on 9 May this year," said Mr. Jong Duk Kim, Country Manger of Fortinet Korea. "Gyeongnam is a great example of the superior security, reliability and flexibility our systems offer for even the most demanding environments. We expect many more similar deployments to come, as we continue our strategy to reach more large enterprise and government customers."