HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, - February 26, 2009 - Fortinet^® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced that MASAN Group, a large and well-diversified homegrown success story in Vietnam, has deployed Fortinets suite of security solutions across its WAN infrastructure supporting the food manufacturing business. To date, all the security functions that are offered through Fortinets network security appliances -- including firewall, antivirus, VPN, IPS, anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping -- are being utilized to protect MASAN Groups network.

According to Vo Anh Chuong, MASAN Groups network infrastructure manager, ÏFortinets solution presents a cost-effective, high-performance security solution with the FortiGates ability to operate in intra- and inter-zones to achieve redundancy through IPSec VPN across the companys WAN infrastructure. To further underscore the solutions value proposition, Vu Thanh Binh, IT director of MASAN Group said, ÏFortinets UTM approach has helped us increase work productivity by approximately 20 percent with secured gateways. This has positively impacted the companys bottom-line through the intelligent use of technology and allows us to track OI in a transparent manner.

ÏWe are pleased that Fortinets network security gateway solution has provided MASAN Group with a simple, secure and scalable solution. This success reinforces Fortinets competency and leadership in the consolidated security space and underscores UTM as sound security solution for many enterprises worldwide, added Benjamin Teh, sales director for Fortinet South Asia. ÏFortinet is honored to be a vendor of choice for MASAN Group in Vietnam and we look forward to continuing to scale our security operations with them as we grow together in this region,

Products deployed by MASAN Group include Fortinets FortiGate®-800, FortiGate-60B and FortiGate-100A network security appliances. In addition, the FortiManager™-400A and FortiAnalyzer™-800B were deployed to provide management and analysis functions.

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 FortiGuard Network, 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.