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Today Fortinet officially announces the new FortiOS 5.4 cybersecurity operating system. FortiOS 5.4 offers powerful new features that make it easy to deploy hyper-secure internal network segmentation as well as defense against advanced threats. One Cybersecurity Operating System for the Entire Attack Cycle Gartner's guidance for 2016 cautions: "the evolution of cloud and mobile technologies, as well as the emergence of the 'Internet of Things,' is elevating the importance of security and risk management." FortiOS removes the complexity of defending against advanced threats. With the latest configuration, analytic capabilities and assisted one-click actions in FortiOS 5.4, enterprises can easily implement internal segmentation firewalls (ISFW) and Secure Access Architectures to move beyond traditional perimeter defense to advanced layers of security. FortiOS 5.4 Introduces New FortiGuard Mobile Security Services FortiOS 5.4 ushers in a new Mobile Malware subscription service from For

BURNABY, BC--(Marketwired - August 18, 2016) -  Andy Travers, senior vice president, sales USA and Canada, Fortinet "Fortinet has a long-standing history of working with the Canadian market. As such, we have a deep understanding of the unique security needs of its government agencies, specifically the stricter compliance regulations, fiscal constraints and the type of critical data that needs to be protected. Being selected by Shared Services Canada to protect the Government's distributed network environments is a testament to the scalability, security and performance of the Fortinet Security Fabric which enables end-to-end network protection for the Government of Canada while adhering to its federal mandates and price performance requirements." News Summary:Fortinet® (FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced that the Government of Canada has selected Fortinet to safeguard its IT infrastructure. Fortinet collaborates with Sha

We are announcing the availability of FortiHypervisor, a new generation of hybrid CPE for creating customized virtual services on-premises and in the cloud.  With this announcement, we have reached another significant milestone in our innovation-based approach by delivering hypervisor-driven technology that enables our service provider and enterprise customers to deliver on-demand services customized to their business needs. Consolidated services on a single CPE. FortiHypervisor is a consolidated services platform that eliminates the need for multiple dedicated CPE at the customer premises or in the cloud. Utilizing the KVM hypervisor, it supports a broad array of security and networking virtualized services as virtual network functions (VNFs), available from both Fortinet and third parties.   Choice of pure x86 or hardware accelerated approaches for flexible deployment. Unlike anyone in the market today, Fortinet provides two different approaches for flexible service de

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - August 09, 2016) -  Kee Seung Baik, President and CEO, KISA"KISA's mission is dedicated to protecting South Korea from cyberattacks. Intelligence is vital to combat these attacks and the future of cyber threats. It is critical that we partner with cybersecurity leaders, like Fortinet, for actionable threat information knowledge and expertise to effectively protect against cyberattacks." Michael Xie, Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer, Fortinet"There is a greater mission on the part of every security vendor to make the cyber world safer for business and personal use. Fortinet continues to partner with global organizations like KISA, NATO, and INTERPOL, to share valuable cyber threat intelligence to proactively help stop cyberattacks. Public and private sector partnerships are critical to the future of cybersecurity, as collaborative information sharing will ultimately help define global security standards." News Summary:Fortinet (FTNT

To combat tomorrow's threat, endpoint security that works in a vacuum is no longer viable. An integrated and automated approach to endpoint security is critical in securing an organization against sophisticated threat actors. What are the drivers behind this and how can that be accomplished? Read the full blog.  

Fortinet Demonstrates Superior Breach Detection and Performance; Earns Two Recommended Ratings for Cloud and Appliance Advanced Threat Protection Solutions     SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - August 02, 2016) -  John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions, Fortinet  "Cybercriminals are evolving new attack strategies at an alarming rate and creating a situation in which the time from breach to full compromise occurs in minutes. This makes rapid detection and automated response a key component for defense. We're honored to receive NSS Labs Recommendations for Breach Detection, which reinforce the effectiveness of our sandbox solutions. These new test results combined with additional NSS Labs Recommended components across our Security Fabric offerings complete the critical steps of converting rapid detection into automatic mitigation to protect against the most advanced threats facing organizations today."  News Summary: Fortinet (NASDAQ:&nb

Fortinet’s New FortiGate 6040E Enterprise Firewall Delivers Unparalleled Next Generation Firewall Performance to Large Enterprises Fortinet Expands Its High-End Presence with New 6000 Series Enterprise Firewalls Powered by Its Next-Generation FortiASIC Content Processor Michael Xie, founder, president and chief technology officer of Fortinet“Enterprises are being disproportionally impacted as the adoption of cloud services and growth in remote access to corporate networks have eroded the network perimeter and steadily increased the demands on enterprise infrastructures. Facing the limitations of traditional security solutions, only the performance advantages of Fortinet’s next-generation processors powering our new FortiGate 6000 series enterprise firewalls will give large enterprises the freedom to deploy the advanced security solutions necessary to protect their organizations today and into the future.” News Summary:Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybe

Fortinet Bolsters Its Broad Range of Secure Access Solutions With New Cloud Management, Converged Wi-Fi Controllers, WAVE II Access Points, and Multi-Tiered Access Switches SUNNYVALE, CA --(Marketwired - May 11, 2016) - Fortinet (FTNT) John Maddison senior vice president of products and solutions, Fortinet "As more BYOD along with millions of new IoT devices attach to corporate networks, defending the access layer is now critical. Applying a fabric approach to enable network segmentation while embedding security within access networks is the only way to secure this rapidly expanding attack surface. The Fortinet Secure Access Architecture enables customers to deliver high speed access and security in a single, integrated solution." Siegfried Unz, director dataservice, Lyoness Group AG "Providing secure internet services for Lyoness' global shopping community of over 5.3 million members, 60,000 partners, and 1,000 employees across 47 countries requires solutions that

Fortinet Earns Top Marks in Independent Comparison of Anti-Spam Solutions FortiMail Has Again Been Awarded the VBSpam+ Certification with a 99.99% Spam Catch Rate and Zero False Positives SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 3, 2016 – Michael Xie, founder, president and chief technology officer, Fortinet “Email continues to be a primary source for malware, data loss, and other enterprise attacks. As this latest round of testing continues to show, Fortinet’s FortiMail secure email gateway solution delivers world-class enterprise email protection. But beyond that, it is also designed to operate as a critical part of our tightly integrated Fortinet Security Fabric that shares threat intelligence to deliver coordinated responses to attacks anywhere across the distributed enterprise network.”  News Summary: Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, today announced another VBSpam+ certification in Virus Bulletin’s latest VBSpam comparative rev

The recent issue that was disclosed publicly was resolved and a patch was made available in July 2014 as part of Fortinet’s commitment to ensuring the quality and integrity of our codebase. This was not a “backdoor” vulnerability issue but rather a management authentication issue. The issue was identified by our Product Security team as part of their regular review and testing efforts. After careful analysis and investigation, we were able to verify this issue was not due to any malicious activity by any party, internal or external.  If you are using:FortiOS v4.3.17 or any later version of FortiOS v4.3 (available as of July 9, 2014)FortiOS v5.0.8 or any later version of FortiOS v5.0 (available as of July 28, 2014)Any version of FortiOS v5.2 or v5.4 You are not affected by this. If you are affected by this, Fortinet recommends you immediately update your FortiOS product. Please refer to the Product Security Advisory posted here http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/fortios-ssh-undocum

On Tuesday, January 26th we’re inviting you to join us for Accelerate 2016, Fortinet’s Virtual Global Partner Conference.  This virtual event is an amazing opportunity to engage with the Fortinet Leadership team, gain access to all of the presentations and content shared, and even chat LIVE with members of our team. Session topics will include:  New marketing and partner investments that will grow your business and profitability Our Internal Segmentation Firewalls (ISFW), a compelling new tool that expands your offerings for customers across verticals and market segments An updated Advanced Threat Protection framework that allows you to upsell, cross-sell and bring on new customers The Fortinet Cyber Threat Assessment Program (CTAP) is winning new customers daily and you’ll learn about the investments we’re making to grow that program You will have access to the keynotes and breakout sessions from the technical and sales tracks.  Additionally, Fortinet executives will

Fortinet continuously receives more third-party certifications and validation tests than any other security vendor SUNNYVALE, Calif., December 7, 2015 — Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced a series of new achievements in third-party certification and validation tests across multiple Fortinet solutions. Fortinet FortiMail, FortiClient, and Web Content Filtering received recognition for high performance in independent tests measuring spam detection rates, anti-phishing effectiveness and virus protection. “Earning these distinctions demonstrates the reliability, efficacy and value of our solutions, and also highlights our commitment to ensure we have the best products to help organizations protect their most valuable assets,” said Ken Xie, founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer at Fortinet. “With today’s complex and ever-increasing cyber threats, businesses want to know that the vendors and so

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 08, 2015 – Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions – today announced that its Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Framework has achieved Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) Certification from ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, which offers vendor-neutral testing and certification. ICSA Labs Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) Certification testing is conducted by an ISO-accredited lab focused on the detection of malicious threats that traditional security products miss.  “With so much noise in the market, it can be a daunting challenge for organizations to separate security fact from fiction. That’s why Fortinet consistently submits our broad portfolio to rigorous, independent, third-party testing that enables customers to understand how our solutions perform in the real-world,” said John Maddison, vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet. “ICSA Labs Advanced Threat Defense Certification d

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - October 28, 2015) - Fortinet® (FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced that NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (NTT), has selected its FortiWeb VM virtual Web Application Firewall (WAF) to secure its enterprise private cloud and cloud service provider platforms. Fortinet's high-performance WAF security technologies are designed to help NTT Com's customers prevent identity theft, financial fraud and denial of service through specialized, layered application threat protection. NTT Com will offer Fortinet's FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) functions within their Integrated Security Appliance: Web Security (WAF) service globally starting in December of this year. The Integrated Security Appliance: Web Security solution is an optional security service for NTT Com's Enter

Joint Customers Like Swisscom and Others Leverage the Fortinet and Splunk Alliance to Respond More Rapidly to the Most Critical Cyber Threats Posing Risk to Their Businesses SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 09/17/15 -- Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced an alliance with Splunk designed to significantly increase the ability for enterprises and service providers to protect themselves from cyber attacks that threaten their networks. As part of the alliance, Fortinet will provide customers around the globe, like Swisscom and others, a method for facilitating better response times and mitigation capabilities, as part of their Splunk® software deployments, designed to thwart fast-acting cyber threats.  With the growing sophistication of cyber attacks companies must now assume attackers have already compromised their systems at some level. Siloed security solutions are not adequ

SANTA CLARA, Calif., SUNNYVALE, Calif., and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortinet (FTNT), Intel Security (INTC), Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Symantec Corp. (SYMC), co-founders of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), today announced the publication of research examining the evolution and global impact of the aggressive CryptoWall ransomware.  "Lucrative Ransomware Attacks: Analysis of the CryptoWall Version 3 Threat," is the first published report using combined threat research and intelligence from the founding and contributing members of the CTA. This whitepaper provides organizations worldwide valuable insight into the attack lifecycle of this lucrative ransomware family, which is associated with over US$325 million in revenue for the malicious actors behind it, as well as recommendations for prevention and mitigation. The CTA further discovered: The $325 million in revenue that went to the attackers included ransoms paid by victims to

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SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - October 26, 2015) - Fortinet® (FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, announced that Michael Xie, founder, president and CTO, will participate in today's first annual Cybersecurity Thought Leadership Forum sponsored by Israel's leading cybersecurity foundry Team8, along with Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and Nasdaq. This invitation-only event will bring together cyber security experts and executive leaders from financial services, technology and consumer companies. Xie will speak on a panel titled "Innovating for the Enterprise." The Thought Leadership Forum on Cyber Security is part of a series of events Nasdaq has sponsored in October, Cyber Security Awareness Month. The Forum will focus on cyber security challenges and opportunities facing organizations of all sizes, as well as the importance of elevating cyber security to the Boardroom. Additional speakers at this exclusive event include: Eric Sch

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - October 19, 2015) - Fortinet® (FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions -- today announced details of its new Secure Access Architecture. This new framework expands Fortinet's innovative Internal Segmentation cybersecurity strategy, enabling organizations to seamlessly segment devices and the access layers across wired and wireless networks. The Secure Access Architecture provides a broad platform of integrated, high-performance cybersecurity solutions that span from the client to the cloud and everything in between. Access Layer Demands Are Expanding, Make Sure Security Can Keep Up Gartner predicts that there will be 33 billion connected endpoints by the year 2020 with a majority comprised of new "headless" device types driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). The proliferation of devices and applications is posing serious challenges for organizations that need to ensure the protection of their entire

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - October 12, 2015) - Fortinet® (FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced their FortiGate VMX next-generation and internal segmentation firewall (NGFW/ISFW). The FortiGate VMX with the VMware NSX® network virtualization platform enables organizations to automate advanced cybersecurity in the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).  Advanced Security for Dynamic Data Centers Working in collaboration with VMware, Fortinet developed the FortiGate VMX to fully leverage the capabilities of the VMware NSX network virtualization platform, enabling customers to automate the insertion, deployment and orchestration of FortiGate VMX for threat protection inside their data center environments.  "NTT Com Security has been working closely with our clients and industry leaders like Fortinet to leverage the security benefits of network virtualization," said Dave Polton, chief technology architect at N

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - October 07, 2015) - Fortinet® (FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced the integration of the Fortinet FortiGate firewall solution into the Cisco® Application Policy Infrastructure Controller™ (APIC). APIC is the controller for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the industry's most comprehensive SDN architecture, which dramatically reduces TCO, automates IT tasks and accelerates data center application deployments. The new FortiGate Connector for Cisco ACI is designed with the security needs of software-defined data centers in mind, enabling physical and virtual networks to deploy policy-driven application services across Layer 4 - 7 fabrics. This integration further extends the Fortinet Software-Defined Network Security (SDNS) Framework, a first of its kind offering designed to provide advanced threat protection through the integration of security into modern, agile data center e

Testing is top of mind for many of us - both IT experts looking for the right solution and our developers here at Fortinet to keep an eye on how we are doing compared to other solutions in the industry.   In a recent Forrester survey, IT professionals who had NGFWs were asked what they would do differently if they could purchase an NGFW all over again. The number one answer, at 71%, was a desire to do more extensive testing before making a selection decision. No one has the time to test every possible solution so a great way to get a vendor neutral review of how a product actually performs is by looking at the latest NSS Labs test results.  You can get all the latest NSS Labs reports that include Fortinet by visiting the NSS Labs Reports page on Fortinet.com. 

PARIS, FRANCE--(Marketwired - October 01, 2015) - Capgemini  (EURONEXT PARIS: CAP), one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced a global alliance partner relationship with Fortinet® (FTNT), a leader in high performance cybersecurity solutions. Through this relationship Capgemini will further reinforce its cybersecurity services portfolio leveraging Fortinet products to help reduce customer cybersecurity costs and increase the resilience of clients' infrastructure and applications. This alliance allows enterprise organizations to benefit from the combination of Fortinet's expertise in innovative and effective security products and Capgemini's cybersecurity services, on a global scale. Together Capgemini and Fortinet will provide new packaged cybersecurity services such as web application security, security for new generation datacenters SDDC (software-defined datacenters1), and Security Operation Centers&

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - September 28, 2015) - Fortinet® (FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions -- today announced that Gary Locke joined Fortinet's Board of Directors effective September 22, 2015.  Locke is a former Governor of the State of Washington, serving two consecutive terms, from 1997 to 2005. In addition, from 2009 to 2011, Locke ran the U.S. Department of Commerce as the Commerce Secretary, and he served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2011 until 2014. With more than 20 years of public service leadership, he brings a wealth of experience and knowledge on a broad range of corporate and global issues, related to cybersecurity challenges of different government organizations.  "We are pleased to have Gary join the Fortinet Board of Directors," said Ken Xie, founder, chairman and CEO of Fortinet. "Gary is a strong business and cybersecurity advocate and, during his long career as a public servant, demo

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - September 22, 2015) - Fortinet® (FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced it will host three Xtreme Team technical partner conferences in 2015, adding an inaugural event in the U.S. to the already successful Latin America and Canada stops. The events bring together premiere systems engineering talent from across the U.S., Latin America and Canada to review industry best practices and develop new approaches to cybersecurity. These exclusive events will provide Fortinet partners with interactive, hands-on training sessions designed to help them expand their technical skills on the Fortinet end-to-end platform and increase their ability to design best-in-class solutions to help protect customers from cyber crime.  In 2006, Fortinet launched its annual Xtreme Team events in Latin America and more recently, in 2010, added an event in Canada. Since that time, the company has provided Fortine