Fortinet, First for Integrated Security

Fortinet is the pioneer and world's leading provider of Unified Threat Management (UTM) security systems that enable secure business communications and deliver the best security, performance and total cost of ownership available. Our award-winning security systems and subscription services protect the networks of more than 20,000 customers worldwide - including telecommunications carriers, service providers and enterprises of all sizes.

Fortinet Milestone

Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2007
One of Top 3 Network Security Appliance Vendors
1 in Worldwide UTM Revenue for 2006
Ranked Tier 1 Enterprise Security Vendor

Fortinet was founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the visionary founder and former president and CEO of NetScreen (later sold to Juniper for more than $3.5 billion) and is led by a strong and seasoned management team with deep experience in the networking and security arenas. Fortinet's position as the leading privately-held network security company has been validated by more than $100 million in funding from the industry's leading venture capital firms.

The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Fortinet sells its system and subscription service products through a network of channel

Fortinet Solutions Deliver Unmatched Security, Performance and TCO

Fortinet offers an array of multi-threat security solutions that help businesses of all sizes meet their security challenges and enable a safe and clean communications environment. Fortinet built its comprehensive security platform from the ground up to provide multiple layers of threat protection and management. This translates into increased deployment flexibility and better security through integration, a "future-proof" solution that can easily scale with business requirements.

Using Fortinet's ASIC innovation and performance acceleration capabilities, FortiGate systems detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems integrate the industry's broadest suite of security protections - including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, antispam, and traffic shaping - that can be deployed individually or combined for a comprehensive unified threat management solution.

Fortinet products enable customers to:

* Protect mission-critical infrastructure from a wide range of attacks
* Reduce the complexity of security infrastructure and solutions
* Limit or reduce costs associated with point product implementations and maintenance
* Keep up with ever-evolving intrusion and virus threats
* Provide superior multi-threat protection without degrading network performance

FortiGate ASIC-based multi-threat security systems employ breakthroughs in networking, security and content analysis. Our architecture analyzes network content and behavior in real time, enabling all key network services - including real-time Web applications - to be screened for both network and content-level threats without impacting network performance.

Product Overview

Complete Security Solutions

Fortinet is a leading provider of Unified Threat Management (UTM) network security solutions for enterprise and service provider environments. Fortinet's FortiGate product line and FortiGuard security subscription services provide an array of integrated network security functions including antivirus, firewall, virtual private networking, intrusion prevention (IPS), web filtering, antispam and traffic optimization. From the FortiGate-50 series for small businesses and branch offices to the FortiGate-5000 series for large enterprises and services providers, all FortiGate appliances include a proprietary technology platform, which includes the proprietary FortiASIC processor specifically designed for accelerating certain security functions. Also part of the FortiGate technology platform is FortiOS, a proprietary operating system that provides the foundation for all security functions. Other enterprise-class attributes of the FortiGate series include high availability and automatic failover capabilities, which prevent hardware failures from impacting business uptime, For service, system virtualization capabilities enable the administrator to deliver managed security to multiple end-customers from one FortiGate appliance.

Fortinet's FortiGuard security subscription services extend the value of the initial investment in Fortinet by providing customers with dynamic updates to our antivirus, intrusion prevention, web filtering and antispam functionality. These updates are a result of security intelligence gathered and developed by Fortinet's dedicated Global Threat Research Team.

To compliment the FortiGate product line, Fortinet also offers FortiManager appliances, which enable customers to manage all Fortinet products from a centralized console. For centralized analysis and reporting, Fortinet offers FortiAnalyzer appliances for forensics, archiving and graphical reporting functions.

For complete email security that includes content archiving and the highest levels of antispam and antivirus capabilities, Fortinet offers FortiMail specialized email security appliances. For endpoint security, Fortinet provides FortiClient software, a product that provides unified endpoint security for desktops, laptops and mobile devices.