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Fortinet's CEO Ken Xie to Present at Lehman Brothers 2004 Global Software and IT Services Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif, March 5, 2004 – Fortinet – the only provider of ASIC-powered, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection – today announced that its Founder, President and CEO Ken Xie will present at The Lehman
Brothers 2004 Global Software and IT Services Conference at 10:30 a.m. on March 8, 2004 at The itz Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Addressing an audience of institutional investors and financial analysts, Xie will discuss Fortinet’s corporate and product strategy, and the network security requirements that are driving rapid market adoption of the company’s high-performance antivirus firewall solutions.

Lehman Brothers is a global investment bank that serves the financial needs of corporations, government, institutional clients, and individuals worldwide. Their annual Global Software and IT Services conference feature presentations from industry-leading companies that offer global perspectives on trends within the enterprise, infrastructure, security, storage, Internet, outsourcing, consulting and systems integration sectors. More information on the conference can be found at:
http://www.lehman.com/conferences/200403SoftwareITServices/welcome.htm

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, 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. FortiGate systems are the only security products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the ed Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

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