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Fortinet Wins 2009 SC Magazine Reader Trust Award

Security Professionals Vote Fortinet's FortiGate-310B as Best Integrated Security Solution

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr. 22, 2009 - Fortinet®- a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -has been recognized with SC Magazine's 2009 eader Trust Award as the company with the Best Integrated Security Solution. The announcement was made yesterday at the exclusive SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual SA Conference in San Francisco, CA.

SC Magazine readers representing IT's most knowledgeable security professionals selected Fortinet's FortiGate-310B from among the industry's leading solutions.

"Fortinet is honored to have the FortiGate-310B recognized by SC Magazine readers as the best integrated security solution," said Ken Xie, Fortinet founder, president and CEO. "We brought breakthrough performance and high enterprise capabilities to this mid-enterprise product. This award validates that we are bringing greater value to our customers and are delivering on the promise of integration."

The annual SC Awards highlight and showcase the best solutions, services and professionals while recognizing achievement and technical excellence in the information security industry. With almost 700 entries submitted in thirty categories, the 2009 SC Awards was the most competitive yet in the program's twelve year history.

"Our readers have recognized the FortiGate-310B for its superior ability to address the most pressing IT security challenges facing the industry," said Illena Armstrong, editor in chief, SC Magazine. "Every vote is a testament to Fortinet's success in helping organizations tackle IT security on a day-to-day basis."

For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit www.scmagazineus.com/2009-Awards-Winners/section/945.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is a leading provider of network security appliances and the market leader in Unified Threat Management or UTM. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection -- including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering, spyware prevention and antispam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level 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 in five programs by ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec VPN, Network IPS and Antispam. Fortinet is based in Sunnyvale, California.

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