Fortinet's FortiGate Systems Win SC Magazine's 2006 Reader Trust Award18 February 2006
Fortinet -- the pioneer and market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection -- today announced that its family of FortiGate(TM) systems has won SC Magazine's prestigious Reader Trust Award for "Best Internet Security Appliance" in the category of Unified Threat Management (UTM). Winners were determined by SC Magazine judges and users of information security products who voted on the publication's website. The winners were announced and honored on February 14, 2006 at an awards gala held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif.
The SC Magazine Global Awards were developed to reflect the important role that information security professionals play in helping to shape the industry, in addition to acknowledging technical excellence around the world. This year, more than 1,300 product and service nominations were received from over 330 competing companies around the world. SC Magazine Awards are the world's leading awards program for the information security industry.
"Fortinet pioneered the UTM appliance market, delivering the first truly integrated security systems for combating blended threats in real-time and setting the standard for others in the industry to follow," said Chris Roeckl, vice president of marketing for Fortinet. "It is an honor to be recognized as the best integrated security appliance on the market by actual users of information security products."
Fortinet's market-leading FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that deliver real-time network protection through the integration of a broad range of security functions -- including firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, traffic shaping, and anti-spam. All of Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ICSA-certified for firewall, antivirus, IDS, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN; easy to manage and provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection at the network gateway and edge. FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically through Fortinet's FortiGuard(TM) Network, which delivers continuous and automatic signature 'push' updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, intrusions and other threats around the clock, and around the world.
About Fortinet (http://www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management security appliance market. The company's award-winning FortiGate(TM) series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security appliances, winner of the Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing magazine and the 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. Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection and cleaning and client anti-spyware), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named a Light Reading Top 10 Private Company and #4 on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" list, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
Source: prnewswire
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