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Fortinet Leads Latin America Unified Threat Management Market According to Leading Market Research Firm

Company also Ranked as Leader in Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela

SUNNYVALE, Calif, - Nov 29, 2007 - Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that new IDC research data confirms that it is No. 1 in Latin America for overall UTM units shipped for the first half of 2007. Fortinet is also the worldwide leader in UTM factory revenue for the same time period.

Data in IDC's Latin America Semi-Annual Security Appliance Tracker, 1H 2007 confirmed:

  • Fortinet is the overall leader in UTM units shipped for 1H 2007
  • Fortinet is the No. 1 vendor in UTM units shipped and factory revenue for Mexico
  • Fortinet is the No. 1 vendor in UTM units shipped in Colombia and Venezuela

"Fortinet has seen an increasing demand in Latin America for flexible, scalable, comprehensive security systems that can meet the needs of large enterprises and managed security service providers," said Pedro Paixao, Fortinet's regional director for Latin America. "IDC's latest research report confirms that Fortinet's solutions are being adopted as the UTM standard throughout the region."

IDC defines UTM security appliance products as those that integrate multiple security features within one device, including network firewalling, network intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), and gateway anti-virus. Fortinet takes UTM further through its family of award-winning FortiGate™ multi-threat security systems that integrate eight essential security applications and services - including firewall, antivirus, virtual private network (VPN), intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping - that can be deployed individually, or combined as a UTM solution.

For more information on Fortinet solutions, please visit: www.fortinet.com/products.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the pioneer and market-leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

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As a small focused team working on a variety of high profile projects, our main priorities are the quality of our work and the service we provide. IT has never been top of the agenda; the construction industry as a whole continues to use traditional processes and still communicates via fax and post in many instances. However, as more of our partners are working electronically, our IT has become business critical, and the need to secure our IT assets was something we knew we had to address, but without our IT expenditure going through the roof.

Martin Brazier
Technical Director
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