Recognized As the Industry's Best Integrated Security Appliance By Users of
Information Security Products and Services
SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA Conference, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortinet -- the
pioneer and market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of
ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time
network protection -- today announced that its family of FortiGate(TM) systems
has won SC Magazine's prestigious Reader Trust Award for "Best Internet
Security Appliance" in the category of Unified Threat Management (UTM).
Winners were determined by SC Magazine judges and users of information
security products who voted on the publication's website. The winners were
announced and honored on February 14, 2006 at an awards gala held at the
Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif.
The SC Magazine Global Awards were developed to reflect the important role
that information security professionals play in helping to shape the industry,
in addition to acknowledging technical excellence around the world. This year,
more than 1,300 product and service nominations were received from over 330
competing companies around the world. SC Magazine Awards are the world's
leading awards program for the information security industry.
"Fortinet pioneered the UTM appliance market, delivering the first truly
integrated security systems for combating blended threats in real-time and
setting the standard for others in the industry to follow," said Chris Roeckl,
vice president of marketing for Fortinet. "It is an honor to be recognized as
the best integrated security appliance on the market by actual users of
information security products."
Fortinet's market-leading FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security
appliances that deliver real-time network protection through the integration
of a broad range of security functions -- including firewall, virtual private
networking (VPN), antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering,
traffic shaping, and anti-spam. All of Fortinet's FortiGate systems are
ICSA-certified for firewall, antivirus, IDS, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN; easy to
manage and provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection
at the network gateway and edge. FortiGate systems are kept up to date
automatically through Fortinet's FortiGuard(TM) Network, which delivers
continuous and automatic signature 'push' updates that ensure protection
against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, intrusions and other
threats around the clock, and around the world.
About Fortinet (http://www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management security
appliance market. The company's award-winning FortiGate(TM) series of
ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security appliances, winner of the Security
Product of the Year Award from Network Computing magazine and the Networking
Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of
real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most
damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses,
worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time -- without
degrading network performance. Fortinet's solutions are the only security
products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus,
IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection and cleaning and client
anti-spyware), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level
services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named a Light Reading Top
10 Private Company and #4 on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast
50" list, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
SOURCE Fortinet, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.fortinet.com
CONTACT:
Michelle Spolver of Fortinet, Inc.,
+1-408-486-7837, or mspolver@fortinet.com
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