Leading with Corporate Social Responsibility

From the start of our business in 2000, our main purpose has aligned with environmental sustainability and conservation, helping enable a low-carbon information technology infrastructure and minimizing waste and leveraging the full cycle of materials. Our strategy is to deliver better security and networking functionality by integrating functionality into one single appliance with a single power cord.

Traditionally, a customer may require an array of different appliances, potentially using up to five times the space, cooling, and power. With Fortinet’s integrated approach, a customer can achieve the same security and networking functionality with just one appliance that uses one-fifth of the power, cooling, and space.

In addition to sustainability being at the core of our strategy, we believe daily environmentally friendly operational practices make good business sense. At Fortinet, we intertwine environmental and efficient business practices into our every-day operations. Our headquarters in Sunnyvale, California harnesses natural energy with large solar panels installed in the parking lot to reduce energy usage. Fortinet is expanding our corporate headquarters into a 172,000 square foot state-of-the-art building with a LEED Gold Energy Efficiency Rating.

Fortinet incentivizes employees at its headquarters to reduce their environmental footprint by providing onsite EV Charging Stations based on solar power, preferred parking spaces for those who drive to work in sustainable energy vehicles, mobile fueling for all employees and installed bike racks. Fortinet is committed to renewable energy. At Fortinet headquarters the company utilizes solar power, drought resistant landscaping, a silica rooftop to reduce heat, LED bulbs, and auto power-down after-hours to reduce reliance on electricity generated by local utilities that burn natural gas. Fortinet also has office recycling programs at company locations, such as E-Waste, Paper & Cardboard, Food Scrap Program & battery recycling collection program.

Fortinet has strategically invested worldwide in setting-up local/regional RMA Depots to reduce transportation-related emissions and provide better customer service. With these local/regional RMA Depots, Fortinet is able to efficiently minimize shipping distances, collect defective products at centralized locations, perform local repairs, recycle defective units in compliance with local regulations and to consolidate shipments to reduce our carbon footprint.

Fortinet manages its logistics/shipping process with Supply Chain and Logistics Service Providers committed to ensure compliance with laws and regulations through the application and enforcement of Environmental Policies that are aimed to reduce air emissions and pollutions by promoting the use of clean fuels, transportation network optimization and by investing in fuel saving technologies.

We also have programs designed to return value to the communities in which we live, such as community outreach and charitable giving programs.

In addition, we have processes that ensure protection of human rights in our supply chain, and avoid doing business with certain parties if designated as problematic from a human rights perspective.

Further, Fortinet has led efforts to share threat information and collaborate with our competition to help protect society’s data. Fortinet founded the Cyber Threat Alliance to share threat intelligence with other security organizations to better secure the world’s data.  

We also partner with various government organizations to share threat intelligence and fight bad actors to secure society’s data and private information. 

Through Fortinet’s threat sharing leadership, Fortinet leverages its primary focus on security to help provide the public service of sharing threat intelligence to more broadly protect information, privacy, and critical infrastructure and to help important organizations and infrastructure operators effectively meet their purpose without disruption.

Fortinet previously approved a stockholder communications policy, which is available on our Investor Relations website, that gives our stockholders the ability to address the Board of Directors through correspondence with our Corporate Secretary. This allows any stockholder to present appropriate materials to the Board of Directors at any time, while maintaining a process of fairness and thoughtfulness with regards to the governance practices of the Board of Directors.

As stated in its Charter, the Fortinet Audit Committee provides oversight of Fortinet’s accounting and financial reporting processes and the audit of Fortinet’s financial statements; assists the Board in oversight of (1) the integrity of Fortinet’s financial statements, (2) Fortinet’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, (3) the internal audit function, (4) the independent auditor’s qualifications, independence and performance, and (5) Fortinet’s internal accounting and financial controls; and provides to the Board such information and materials as it may deem necessary to make the Board aware of significant financial matters that require the attention of the Board.

As stated in its Charter, the Fortinet Human Resources Committee provides oversight of Fortinet’s compensation policies, plans and benefits programs, and overall compensation philosophy; discharges the Board’s responsibilities relating to (1) oversight of the compensation of Fortinet’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and its executive officers (including officers reporting under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) and (2) the evaluation and approval of Fortinet’s CEO and executive officer compensation plans, policies and programs; and administers Fortinet’s equity compensation plans for its executive officers and employees.