Fortinet
Their award-winning security systems and subscription services protect the networks of more than 20,000 customers worldwide - including the largest telecommunications carriers, service providers and enterprises of all sizes.
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) and is led by a strong and seasoned management team with deep experience in the networking and security arenas. Fortinet's position as the leading privately-held network security company has been validated by more than $100 million in funding from the industry's leading venture capital firms.
The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia to ensure continuous customer success. Fortinet sells its system and subscription service products through a network of channel partners worldwide.
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Fortinet announced the introduction of three new members to its FortiWeb Web application firewall product family – the FortiWeb-4000C, FortiWeb-3000C FSX and FortiWeb-400C. The new product line is designed to address the diverse needs of large enterprises, service providers and mid-sized organizations that must protect strategic Web applications from security breaches and data leakage.
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Wednesday, 30.11.2011
Fortinet announced that Telekomunikacja Polska (Polish Telecom) (TPSA.WA), the leading national telecommunications provider in Poland, has chosen Fortinet’s FortiGate multi-threat network security appliances as the cornerstone of its new “Managed UTM” offering, designed for small, medium and large enterprises to help secure their internal networks against external threats.
Tuesday, 30.08.2011
Fortinet released its latest Threat Landscape report, which details a new variant of Zitmo (Zeus in the mobile) that was written to run on the Android operating system, allowing the malware to continue its expansion across mobile platforms beyond the Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry operating systems.
Monday, 30.05.2011
Fortinet announced the company’s FortiMail messaging security appliance has been awarded its 12th Virus Bulletin certification in the VBSpam Awards.
Tuesday, 26.04.2011
Fortinet announced its latest 30-day Threat Landscape research, which showed the re-emergence of the Torpig botnet, accounting for 30 percent of new botnet activity. Most command and control detections for Torpig originated from machines in Russia and Sudan. By comparison, the Hiloti botnet accounted for roughly 15 percent of new botnet traffic - the majority of which was found in Australia and Sweden.
Tuesday, 12.04.2011
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) announced the company’s FortiMail messaging security appliance has been awarded its 11th Virus Bulletin certification in the VBSpam Awards.
Tuesday, 12.04.2011
Fortinet announced the company’s FortiGate-200B and FortiGate-620B multi-threat security solutions and its FortiOS 4.0 firmware have earned certification for Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL 4+). The certification process provides a third-party evaluation service for determining the trustworthiness of information technology security products, which is fundamentally important to the company’s enterprise and government customers.
Thursday, 17.03.2011
Fortinet announced its February 2011 Threat Landscape report, which details five zero-day vulnerabilities found in Cisco (FGA-2011-03), Adobe (FGA-2011-06) and Microsoft (FGA-2011-04) products. FortiGuard Labs worked diligently with these companies to address and disclose these vulnerabilities as part of its responsible disclosure program, which includes more than 125 zero-day vulnerability discoveries to date.
Monday, 28.02.2011
Fortinet announced the addition of a new consolidated security appliance to its award-winning FortiGate product family. The FortiGate-3140B consolidated security appliance is designed for large enterprises and data centers requiring maximum firewall, virtual private network and intrusion prevention system (IPS) performance to optimize protection against blended threats, destructive malware and constantly evolving attempts to breach security in high-speed network environments.
Monday, 14.02.2011
Fortinet announced a major firmware release for its FortiWeb web application firewall family. FortiWeb appliances provide enterprises, application service providers, Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) customers with significantly expanded security capabilities designed to harden and simplify protection of critical web-based applications containing regulated and confidential data. FortiWeb 4.0 MR2 firmware features a broad range of substantial enhancements that include expanded attack protection schemes to help organizations more easily achieve and maintain compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS 6.6) and help prevent identity theft, financial fraud and corporate espionage associated with strategic web applications.
Tuesday, 22.06.2010
Fortinet announced that leading market research firm Ovum, a Datamonitor company, has published a positive Technology Audit on Fortinet’s FortiGate® family of multi-threat network security appliances.
Thursday, 20.08.2009
Fortinet announced that its July 2009 Threatscape Report showed aggressive eCard spam activity throughout the reporting period.
Wednesday, 22.07.2009
Fortinet® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that the FortiScan™ product line has completed the Secure Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) validation. In order for government agencies to provide Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance reporting, they must utilize a SCAP validated product.
Tuesday, 21.07.2009
Fortinet® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions – today announced that First Medical Management/Pacific Hospital of Long Beach has engaged with Fortinet to help secure its core and distributed network with the Fortinet family of multi-threat security appliances including FortiGate® for network protection and FortiClient™ for endpoint security. In addition, Fortinet’s management solution, FortiManager™, has been deployed to easily and remotely make network security changes and to manage all appliances no matter where they are located.
Monday, 18.05.2009
Fortinet announced the release of a carrier-grade version of its FortiGate® multi-threat security platform.
Friday, 27.03.2009
Fortinet announced that new IDC research data confirms that the company was ranked No. 1 in worldwide UTM factory revenue for 2008, fueled by significant large enterprise, MSSP and carrier adoption of its high-end FortiGateTM network security appliances.
Wednesday, 25.03.2009
Fortinet announced new functionalities for its FortiDB database security appliances, adding monitoring and auditing capabilities to the vulnerability assessment (VA) solution introduced last year.
Fortinet announced its FortiOS 4.0 operating system, a major firmware upgrade which integrates hundreds of new features to significantly improve the value and functionality of its FortiGate® multi-threat security appliances.
Fortinet announced the debut of a new web security appliance that provides application and XML firewalling to protect, balance and accelerate web applications, databases and the information exchanged between them
Thursday, 12.02.2009
Fortinet announced its January 2009 Threatscape report revealed a surge in exploit activity.
Fortinet announced new functionalities for its FortiDB database security appliances, adding monitoring and auditing capabilities to the vulnerability assessment (VA) solution introduced last year.
Wednesday, 14.01.2009
Fortinet announced that Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, has selected Fortinet's FortiGate carrier-class systems as the backbone for Tata Communications' new virtualized UTM (vUTM) service.
Tuesday, 13.01.2009
Fortinet announced that the Fortinet FortiGate family of multi-threat security appliances has successfully completed IPv6 interoperability certification and is now approved for listing on the U.S. federal government's Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (APL).
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