Fortinet was founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the visionary founder and former
president and CEO of NetScreen, later sold to Juniper for more than $3.5
billion. The company is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California, with customer support, development and sales facilities
throughout North America, Europe and Asia to ensure continuous
customer success.
Our management team is unmatched in experience within the network
security market space and has received the largest amount of industry
awards from business and trade publishing organizations. The company's
position as the leading privately held network security systems supplier
has been validated by more than $93 million in venture funding from the
industry's leading venture capital firms. Fortinet sells its system and
subscription service products through a network of selected system and
distributors and resellers worldwide. Our thousands of global customers
include service providers, enterprises and small businesses.
Using Fortinet's ASIC innovation and performance acceleration
capabilities, FortiGate Systems 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 - without
degrading network performance. In addition to providing application
level protection, FortiGate systems give users their choice of 'best
in class' network-level services - firewall, VPN, intrusion detection
and traffic shaping - delivering a complete network protection services
in dedicated, easily managed platforms. These products and subscription
services have won the industry's largest number of awards and
certifications while continue to lead the performance benchmarks for
either individual 'best in class security applications' or as an integrated
Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution.
With more than a dozen patents pending, FortiGate Antivirus
Firewalls employ breakthroughs in ASIC design, networking, security
and content analysis. Our architecture analyzes network content and
behavior in real time, enabling all key network services - including
real-time Web applications - be screened for both network and content-level
threats without impacting network performance. Our unique combination of
FortiOS security applications, FortiGate security systems, FortiGuard
Subscription services and FortiGuard Distribution Network ensures
continuous network security for our global customer base.
The company also addresses key vertical markets security
requirements that customers need to address their regulatory
compliance needs such HIPAA/Healthcare, GLBA and Basil II/Financial,
CIPA/Education, FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria EAL4+/Government and others.
Products:
Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate series of
ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems are the
new generation of real time network protection systems.
They 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 - without
degrading network performance.
The combination of our suite of industry leading
FortiGuard Subscription Service offerings and our intelligent
systems offer Enterprise, MSSP and SMB users unparalleled value,
best in class performance, and unmatched functionality when compared
to any single purpose security appliance or integrated Unified
Threat Management system.
Fortinet's intelligent bridge technology, the FortiASIC
chip design, FortiOS software, networking, security and content
analysis. These technologies have received the most industry
certifications including FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria EAL4+
certifications and four ICSA Certifications - ICSA for antivirus,
IPSec, firewall and intrusion detection functionality. FortiGate
systems are also the only Unified Threat Management systems certified
by the independent NSS test labs for Intrusion Detection and Prevention.
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