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Thai Airline Deploys Fortinets Solutions for Low-Latency Firewalling and Efficient Email Security

BANGKOK, Thailand, July 6, 2010 - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced that Nok Air, a low-cost airline in Thailand, has deployed FortiGate® multi-security appliances and FortiMail™ appliances for firewalling, antivirus and antispam protection at Nok Airs headquarters in Bangkok and airline offices across the country in the first quarter of 2010. Two FortiGate-3810A appliances and two FortiMail-400B appliances were deployed at True Internet, the hosting data centre of Nok Air. The appliances were chosen for their high-performance, simplified management and cost-effectiveness.

As data traffic on Nok Airs network has increased tremendously in the past years, the airline realized that its security deployment was no longer able to cope with its bandwidth requirements. Nok Air therefore decided to look for a low-latency firewall solution to sanitize traffic and a more efficient messaging security solution to protect its users from email spam and viruses. Based on the recommendations of CCN-Tech, its IT partner, Nok Air tested Fortinets solutions and decided to replace its aging Juniper and Trend Micro security solutions with Fortinets FortiGate and FortiMail appliances.

Sirinum Jiradilok, vice president of IT at Nok Air, said, ÏWhen we tested Fortinets equipment we were impressed by the high-performance and low latency. Since deployment, we have seen improved business performance due to increased network bandwidth and faster application process. FortiGates high availability backup functionality is also highly efficient, impacting positively our maintenance and service availability.

Working alongside CCN-Tech, Nok Air has deployed the two FortiGate-3810A appliances to provide firewalling security at its headquarters in Bangkok and its 15 remote offices across Thailand. The two FortiMail-400B appliances provide email security to Nok Airs local and remote employees, 600 in total.

As a next step, Nok Air plans to evaluate the use of Fortinets security solutions in the areas of IPS, network access control (NAC) and data security to meet PCI/DSS security compliance requirements.

Peerapong Jongvibool, country manager of Fortinet Thailand, added, ÏWe are honored to secure Nok Airs high traffic network, which needs to be up and running at optimal levels to enable a smooth customer experience for its travelers. Fortinets security technology has once again proven its superior performance and reliability in order to meet the needs of customers operating in high-intensity environments.

About Nok Air(http://www.nokair.com/NokConnext/aspx/Welcome.aspx)

Nok Air is a new low-cost airline registered under Nok Airlines Co., Ltd, as a joint venture between public and private investors. Nok is Thai for Ïbird symbolizing a short, simple and easy to remember name all Thais can relate to. Nok Air aims to be the number one, low fare, high value budget airline in Thailand and Asia offering Thai hospitality, providing travelers with safe, reliable, convenient, value for money travel service. As a company, Nok Air aims to offer highest possible returns to shareholders through cost-effective operations with a plan to develop and motivate our team to be initiative and highly productive.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

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About Fortinet(www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

Copyright © 2010 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, Fortieporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, Fortiesponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiAP, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties, such as statements attributed to IDC, and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. This news release may contain forward-looking statements, such as statements regarding trends of adoption by large enterprises and the ongoing adoption by MSSPs, carriers and small to medium businesses, that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. isks and uncertainties include, among others, changes in market dynamics, changes in demand for UTM and other solutions, the introduction of new competitive solutions, economic risks and uncertainties, execution risks and uncertainties related, for example, to new product introductions and innovations, and other risk factors set forth from time to time in our filings with the SEC, copies of which are available free of charge at the SECs website at www.sec.gov or upon request from Fortinets investor relations department. If the risks or uncertainties materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Fortinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in the event actual results differ, and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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