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Fortinet Ships 500,000th Integrated Security Appliance

Customer Confidence in Flagship FortiGate Systems and Strong Enterprise Adoption of Consolidated Security Approach Fuel Growth

SUNNYVALE, Calif., February 11, 2010 - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that shipments of its consolidated network security appliances have surpassed 500,000 units. This milestone number represents total shipment of Fortinets flagship FortiGate® multi-threat appliance as well as complementary security offerings including FortiMail™, FortiDB™, FortiWeb™, FortiScan™, FortiManager™ and FortiAnalyzer™ appliances. The combination of these products works to secure the entire network from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications.

Fortinets accelerated growth has been the result of three key developments in the network security appliance landscape:

  • High performance and demonstrated reliability of the FortiGate platform have encouraged adoption of the consolidated security solution by a greater number of companies, including large enterprises and government entities worldwide;
  • Enablement of cloud-based security has created a new and growing business model for service providers and carriers/telcos to use UTM platforms as the technology backbone for offering comprehensive network security as a service;
  • Customers in vertical segments - such as retail, finance, healthcare and education - looking for a cost-effective approach to secure their business and meet regulatory compliance have embraced the multi-layered defense, management elegance and CAPEX/OPEX savings of the consolidated security approach, especially as IT budget scrutiny became more intense in the macro-economic climate of the past 18-24 months.

"Fortinet's philosophy to integrate multiple security functionalities for stronger protection with greater efficiencies really speak to the pain points that companies - large and small - have been feeling over the past decade," said Ken Xie, CEO and founder, Fortinet. "With the aggressive and dynamic nature of today's cybercriminal element, these pain points have never been so pressing; thus, we believe customers will continue to appreciate the value of Fortinet products with even greater urgency than ever before."

About FortiGate

Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate core security and network functionalities including firewall, SSL and IPSec VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antispam, application control, data loss prevention, SSL traffic inspection and WAN optimization. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard Network, which helps protect against the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, other unwanted network traffic and more - around the clock and around the world. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards and are the only security products that are certified in five programs by ICSA Labs for firewall, antivirus, IPSec VPN, network IPS and antispam.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

Copyright © 2010 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, Fortieporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, Fortiesponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include statements regarding trends in the Threatscape and in malicious code. Such trends are difficult to predict and are based on factors outside of our control and so future circumstances might differ from the assumptions on which such statements are based and results may differ. All forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision of these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events.

About Fortinet(www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

Copyright © 2010 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, Fortieporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, Fortiesponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiAP, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties, such as statements attributed to IDC, and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. This news release may contain forward-looking statements, such as statements regarding trends of adoption by large enterprises and the ongoing adoption by MSSPs, carriers and small to medium businesses, that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. isks and uncertainties include, among others, changes in market dynamics, changes in demand for UTM and other solutions, the introduction of new competitive solutions, economic risks and uncertainties, execution risks and uncertainties related, for example, to new product introductions and innovations, and other risk factors set forth from time to time in our filings with the SEC, copies of which are available free of charge at the SECs website at www.sec.gov or upon request from Fortinets investor relations department. If the risks or uncertainties materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Fortinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in the event actual results differ, and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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Key to our selection of Fortinet was the truly integrated functionality of its FortiGate security appliances. In evaluating other solutions, we found that one product might have offered IPS but nothing much beyond that. Another offered a range of functions, but as a piecemeal solution from multiple vendor partners. We found that none matched the breadth of Fortinet's integrated platform.

Laurie Ellims
Technical Architect/Security Manager
Victoria University of Wellington