SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Sep 22, 2009 Fortinet® a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that the Fortinet FortiGate® family of multi-threat security appliances has successfully completed the stringent certification process and is now approved for listing on the U.S. Army Information Assurance Approved Products List (IA APL). The product has been approved by the Army Office of Information Assurance and Compliance (OIA&C), having completed all of the steps necessary, including a favorable evaluation conducted by the U.S. Army Technical Integration Center (TIC).

ÏFortinet is very pleased to be added to the Army IA APL and to have established an excellent working relationship with the Army OIA&C and TIC. Adding IA APL certification to Fortinets other government certifications, such as FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and EAL 4+, should give our customers greater assurance that their security acquisitions are in federal compliance -- with the U.S. Army in particular and the DoD in general, said Jeff Lake, vice president, Federal Operations, Fortinet. ÏWith Fortinet, the Army will be able to confidently increase their security posture while reducing costs, just like many other DoD tactical and garrison, intelligence community and civilian agency customers.

In addition to this latest U.S. Army IA APL certification, Fortinets FortiOS 3.0 and specific FortiGate multi-threat security appliance models have been certified to Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Level 2. FortiOS is Common Criteria EAL4+ certified by NIAP and is currently undergoing testing for the NIAP Common Criteria Medium obustness V3.0 program.

Fortinets FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate essential security and network functionalities such as firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antivirus, anti-spam, data leakage protection, application control, traffic shaping and WAN acceleration. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinets FortiGuard® Network, which helps ensure protection 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.