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Fortinet Maintains No. 1 Worldwide UTM Revenue Position According to Leading Market Research Firm

Company Continues to Gain Market Share in Enterprise UTM Segment

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 13, 2007 - Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -today announced that new IDC research data confirms that the company ranked No. 1 for worldwide UTM revenue for Q1 2007, ahead of Check Point, Cisco, Crossbeam, Juniper and SonicWall. Additionally, IDC data confirmed that Fortinet experienced significant quarter over quarter growth in both factory revenue and units shipped in a key enterprise UTM price band segment, further acquiring market share from its competitors.

Data in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, Q1 2007 indicated:

    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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    Fortinet has allowed us to bring our network security services in-house rather than spending money for an outsourced vendor to manage the network. A unified security solution works best for us, as we have a relatively small technical team. The FortiGate solution helps us to manage our time, skills and on-going costs more effectively. Because of our Fortinet deployment, we are expecting to save $1.5 million in network security costs over the next three years.

    Rosemary Burns
    Technical Services Division Manager
    Holmesglen Institute