LONDON, May 3, 2006- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions- today announced that its family of FortiGate™ systems have been declared "Best Integrated Security Appliance" and overall "Best Unified Threat Management Solution" in SC Magazine's 2006 European eaders Trust Awards.

Determined by information security users and a panel of prestigious judges comprised of European CSOs and industry influencers, the SC Magazine eaders Trust awards highlight the industry's best security products and services. This year, more than 1,300 nominations were received from over 330 competing companies around the world. Fortinet beat out a slew of security vendors to win the coveted Unified Threat Management (UTM) category award, which included integrated security software and appliance products, email managed services, and managed security services. Award winners were announced and honoured at a gala dinner in London last week.

"Since pioneering and delivering the industry's first integrated multi-threat security systems, Fortinet has remained committed to driving innovation in the industry and addressing the evolving security challenges of our customers in Europe and around the globe," said Andre Stewart, Fortinet's vice president of EMEA. "We are honoured to receive these prestigious SC Magazine awards -- a result of the fact that information security users in Europe cast their votes and recognized our FortiGate systems to be the best security products on the market."

These SC Magazine eaders Trust awards mark the second and third that Fortinet has received this year. In February, the company won SC Magazine's US eaders Trust award for "Best Integrated Security Appliance" (see:http://www.fortinet.com/news/pr/2006/pr021506.html).

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™ 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.