HONG KONG September 18, 2009 - Fortinet^® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced that Erica Liu has been appointed Major Account Manager (MAM). Lius charter is to deepen Fortinets enterprise penetration and provide a high-touch approach to key sales accounts within major industry verticals in the territory.

Prior to joining Fortinet, Liu held a senior sales position at IT-Partners, a key channel system integrator in Hong Kong, successfully driving the promotion of security solutions to major customers. She was also regional product manager with Alcatel and worked in the companys &D centre in Canada for four years. Liu graduated from the Technical University of Nova Scotia in Canada with an honors degree majoring in computer science.

According to Benjamin Teh, regional director for Fortinet Asia South and Hong Kong, ÏI am pleased to welcome Erica onboard. The territory holds high potential for Fortinet and we look forward to her strengthening our enterprise business traction, securing customer wins and driving a strong strategy to help ensure sustainable inroads into high-end major accounts in Hong Kong and Macau.

Fortinets FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate essential network and security services such as antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-spam, application control, data leakage protection, SSL inspection and WAN acceleration. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard Network, which helps ensure protection against the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, other unwanted network traffic and more.