SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 01/14/16 -- Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced the winners of this year's top partner awards. This year's award ceremony was held at the company's Global Partner Conference, which is currently taking place in Cancun, Mexico. Fortinet'sGlobal Partner Conference awards recognizes the outstanding achievements drawn from the company's distributors and resellers around the world. This year's conference attendance was Fortinet's largest, encompassing more than 1,200 partners from over 60 countries.

This year's award winners are:

• FortiHero -- Global Partner of the Year: Dimension Data
• Partner of the Year: CDW (U.S.); ACSI Connect (Canada); CIMACOM (LATAM); Capita IT Services -- UK (EMEA); Canon System & Support Inc. -- Japan (APAC)
• Top Distributor Partners: Fine Tec (U.S.); Tech Data (Canada); Adistec (LATAM); Arrow ECS Spain and Portugal (EMEA); Redington India Limited (APAC)
• Enhanced Technology Partners: SHI (U.S.); Integra Data (Canada); Grupo Tecnocibernetica (LATAM); Point -- Poland (EMEA); Acurus -- ANZ (APAC)

"I would like to congratulate this year's winners and personally thank every one of our partners for their continued dedication and commitment," said Ken Xie, co-founder, President and CEO of Fortinet. "Fortinet's growth and success could not have been achieved without the partnership of all of our resellers and distributors working together with us to deliver security without compromise."

Fortinet's annual Global Partner Conference (GPC) provides the Fortinet partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Fortinet GPC presents an ideal setting for partners to take away valuable knowledge from their peers and from Fortinet.

For more information on Fortinet's FortiPartner Program, please visit: http://www.fortinet.com/partners/partner_program/fpp.html.

About Fortinet

Fortinet(NASDAQ: FTNT) protects the most valuable assets of some of the largest enterprise, service provider and government organizations across the globe. The company's fast, secure and global cyber security solutions provide broad, high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT infrastructure. They are strengthened by the industry's highest level of threat research, intelligence and analytics. Unlike pure-play network security providers, Fortinet can solve organizations' most important security challenges, whether in networked, application or mobile environments -- be it virtualized/cloud or physical. More than 210,000 customers worldwide, including some of the largest and most complex organizations, trust Fortinet to protect their brands. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog or FortiGuard Labs.

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