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Fortinet
About company
Worldwide company Fortinet was founded in 2000 by KenXie, the former president and CEO of 
NetScreen. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Fortinet has branches in Europe, Asia and North America and sells its system and subscription service products through a network of channel partners worldwide.
Among the products of Fortinet Inc. belong ASIC-accelerated UTM firewalls FortiGate providing antivirus, antispam, IPS, web content filtering, VPN gateway (IPSEC, SSL), Instant Messaging and P2P filtering, VoIP support, reporting and management appliances FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager, special SMTP gateways FortiMail a client desktop software FortiClient combining personal firewall, antivirus, antispam, antispyware, IPS, web content filtering and IPSEC client.
The firewalls have been awarded by many prestigious awards in the field of virus protection. They can detect and eliminate the most dangerous attacks hidden in the data transmitted by email, sent by mobile service MMS or downloaded from web sites (content-based threats) - viruses, worms, inappropriate web content without network performance degradation.
Key benefits
Fortinet offers a new generation of all-in-one security devices - FortiGate which is equipped with special ASIC processor for real time network traffic scanning and also with own operation system FortiOS. It belongs among complete network protection systems against external threats (Unified Threat Management - UTM). These firewalls have received many prestigious awards in the field of antivirus protection. They are able to detect and eliminate the most dangerous threats hidden in data transmitted by e-mails, sent by MMS or downloaded from web pages (content-based threats) - viruses, worms, improper web page content, without decrease of network performance. FortiGate UTM system offers complete solution for all levels of security services - firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), antivirus and antispam protection and web content filtering. It could be complemented by other additional products for logging, monitoring or real time reporting.
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Leading provider of ASIC-accelerated UTM solutions.
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Automated PUSH updates of antivirus databases – up-to-date signatures in a minute.
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HW is not licensed on a “per user” basis but on a “per box” basis.
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Full virtualisation, 10 virtual engines are included in the price of purchased HW.
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FortiClient – latest security technology without requiring complex user involvement.
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8 ICSA certifications (only network security vendor).
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USA administration certification (FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria EAL4+).
Better value
Fortinet´s security systems management and company reporting offer best in class choices for seven key security components. Fortinet products are the only security solutions which are certified in 8 ICSA categories, dispose of government certifications (FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria EAL4+) and are certified by Virus Bulletin (2005, 2006). By offering enterprises the ability to eliminate multiple security devices and collapse them into an inline network capability, Fortinet decreases TCO. Fortinet offers single licensing “per box” so the costs for maintenance, device updates and technical support are greatly reduced compared to competing products licensed on a “per user” basis.
Fortinet can show off more than 200 thousands of UTM innovative devices installed around the world, and therefore it is called the fastest growing vendor of security solutions. Fortinet products are always recognized by professional public e.g. FortiGate 60B and FortiWifi 60B have got the opportunity to use a logo „IT product 2008“. Product FortiGate 224B had achieved the same award in the competition in the year 2007.
SkyVera s.r.o. has acquired two FCNSP certifications (Fortinet Certified Network Sec urity Professional) and two certifications FortiMail Specialist.
