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Strong Revenue Growth Garners Fortinet #4 Spot on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50"Private Companies List
SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 6, 2005
- Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection
- today announced it has been chosen by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as a "Fast 50" private company, as a result of its strong revenue growth over the past three years.
For its 2005 "Fast 50" award, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal ranks private companies by percent revenue growth from 2002 to 2004. Fortinet ranked fourth amongst the Fast 50, a testament to the increased market need for high-performance multi-threat security appliances and customer demand for Fortinet's market-leading solutions.
"We are pleased to receive the "Fast 50" award by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, which recognizes our impressive growth and market strength over the past three years," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO for Fortinet. "Since introducing our award-winning FortiGate security appliances in 2002, Fortinet has sold more than 100,000 systems to thousands of customers worldwide, propelling continued revenue growth and our confirmed global leadership in the unified threat management market."
Fortinet is a global company that provides security solutions for networks of all sizes. Fortinet's flagship product is its family of FortiGate systems, which are ASIC-accelerated integrated security appliances that combine an array of essential security applications -- antivirus, firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, antispam and traffic shaping -- to protect against today's and emerging network security threats. With its FortiGate systems, Fortinet is currently the pioneer and leader of the Unified Threat Management security appliance market, the fastest growing segment of the overall security market. To accompany its FortiGate systems, Fortinet also offers security subscription services, tools for security management, logging and reporting, a host-based security suite and dedicated antispam appliances.
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" story published as a special supplement in the publication's September 23, 2005 issue.
To view an electronic version of the article, please visit: http://www.fortinet.com/news/media/Fast50.pdf
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, 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. Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified six times over by the ICSA (server antivirus, client antivirus, firewall, IPSec, SSL, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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