SUNNYVALE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/19/11 -- Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) -- a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -- today announced the company's FortiMail™ messaging security appliance has been awarded its 10th Virus Bulletin certification in the VBSpam Awards.

Virus Bulletin staff tested FortiMail along with 18 other antispam products for spam catch rates and false positive rates. The Virus Bulletin Report noted that "If there was an award for the greatest improvement, then FortiMail would certainly win it." According to the report, FortiMail saw improvements to both its false positive rate and its spam catch rate.

"We are extremely pleased with FortiMail's antispam enhanced performance in this most recent round of testing," said Patrick Bedwell, vice president of product marketing for Fortinet. "We are always striving to improve our products and make our customers' lives easier. This 10th consecutive VBSpam certification further validates our commitment to developing high-performance and high-accuracy messaging security solutions for networks of all sizes."

The FortiMail family of appliances delivers proven, powerful messaging security for any size organization, from small businesses to carriers, services providers and large enterprises. Purpose-built for the most demanding messaging systems, the FortiMail appliances utilize Fortinet's years of experience in protecting networks against spam, malware and other message borne threats.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise -- from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

Copyright © 2011 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, FortiReporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, FortiResponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiAP, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties, such as statements attributed to Virus Bulletin, and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. This news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. Risks and uncertainties include, among others, changes in market dynamics, changes in demand, changes in strategy, the introduction of new competitive solutions, economic risks and uncertainties, execution risks and uncertainties related, for example, to new product introductions and innovations, and other risk factors set forth from time to time in our filings with the SEC, copies of which are available free of charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or upon request from Fortinet's investor relations department . If the risks or uncertainties materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Fortinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in the event actual results differ, and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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