SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 15, 2005 - Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection - today announced that the National Police Agency (NPA) of Taiwan's Ministry of Interior, has purchased and will deploy more than 1,400 Fortinet security systems, management and host security products to protect against network threats for its police offices throughout the island.

Taiwan National Police Agency selected Fortinet solutions based on the superior cost effectiveness, breadth of integrated security functionality, performance, and scalability of Fortinet's FortiGate network security platforms, which perfectly suit the organization's needs. For this island-wide deployment, the organization purchased:

• 1,400 FortiGate-50A systems for to protect its individual police offices
• 22 FortiGate-300A antivirus firewall systems for its larger police offices
• 1 FortiManager system for centralized management and monitoring of the FortiGate systems being deployed
• 1,000 FortiClient host security software licenses to protect the desktops and mobile notebooks of its police officers

Comprehensive, High-Performance Security Platform
Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate Series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more - in real time. FortiGate systems integrate a full range of best-in-class security applications -- including antivirus, firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS), virtual private networking (VPN), Web content filtering, traffic shaping, and antispam - on a single, easy-to-manage platform. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiProtect™ Network, which provides continuous updates that ensure protection against the latest threats around the clock and around the world. All models in the FortiGate product family employ Fortinet's unique FortiASIC content processing chip and the powerful, secure, FortiOS operating system to achieve breakthrough price/performance.

"The Taiwan National Police Agency has huge security responsibilities, and so they have planned and will deploy an end-to-end, multi-layered security infrastructure that will provide the highest levels of protection for their very sensitive data such as case files and criminal records," said Jens Andreassen, vice president of international sales at Fortinet. "Their stringent security requirements are ably met by Fortinet's integrated network security platform. We are pleased with their decision to invest in our proven solutions."