Fortinet

created and leads the rapidly growing Unified Threat Management (UTM) market space and is the only supplier of real time ASIC-accelerated network security systems Real time network protection Anti-virus, Firewall, IPS, VPN, Content Filtering, Antispam Email Security Wireless Security www.fortinet.com   Authorised FortiPartner since: 2003

Background
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. The company is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia to ensure continuous customer success.

Corporate Information
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security systems that enable secure business communications and deliver the best security, performance and total cost of ownership available. Fortient's award-winning security systems and subscription services protect the networks of more than 20,000 customers worldwide - including the largest telecommunications carriers, service providers and enterprises of all sizes.

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

Core Competancy
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 is the only company who has built its comprehensive security platform from the ground up to provide multiple layers of threat protection and management. This translates into 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, antispyware, and traffic shaping - that can be deployed individually or combined for a comprehensive unified threat management solution.

Product Portfolio
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 that are skyrocketing due to point product implementations
Keep up with ever-evolving intrusion and virus threats
Provide superior multi-threat protection without degrading network performance

With more than 20 patents pending, FortiGate ASIC-based multi-threat security systems employ breakthroughs in networking, security and content analysis. Fortinet's 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.

Fortinet offers an array of scalable multi-threat security appliances, management, reporting and analysis solutions that enable customers of all sizes to have flexibility in deployment, meet compliance objectives and cost-effectively protect their critical assets.