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Fortinet Ships FortiOS™ 3.0 in Japan Today

New firmware release provides protection for Peer-to-Peer applications, including Winny.

TOKYO, Japan, April 24, 2006-- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions- today announced the shipping of its next major firmware upgrade, FortiOS 3.0, for its FortiGate™ series of Unified Threat Management platforms.

FortiOS 3.0 contains significant new security features and enhancements, as well as improved management capabilities. A major new feature is complete content protection for instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. The firmware upgrade also includes ICSA-certified SSL-VPN capabilities, enabling users to setup secure VPNs without needing to purchase additional hardware.

Protection for 'Winny'
FortiOS 3.0's new P2P security capabilities have been tested and proven with Skype, BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella and Kazaa. FortiOS 3.0 has also been proven to be able to detect and block content-based threats in local software, most notably, 'Winny', a popular Japanese P2P application. Winny has been linked to a number of significant spyware incidents in Japan that prompted Japan's government and many businesses to block or ban it.

The new P2P security functions in FortiOS 3.0 allow companies to not only detect and block malicious software, but also to control the amount of bandwidth allocated to P2P protocols.

"Fortinet proposes a three-pronged approach to securing Winny traffic," explains Hansen Chang, vice president of Fortinet Asia Pacific. "Businesses can now filter Winny traffic through our FortiGate systems running FortiOS 3.0, but they should also deploy antivirus and antispyware applications on the desktops and notebooks. User education is also very important, and businesses should inform network users of the risks and consequences if their systems get infected. Finally, monitoring, management and regulation of network traffic needs to be done by the company's Information Systems team to check for sensitive information leaking out from the company."

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified seven times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection and cleaning), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named a Light Reading Top 10 Private Company and #4 on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" list, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

 

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