Fortinet was founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the visionary founder and former president and CEO of NetScreen, later sold to Juniper for more than $3.5 billion. The company is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia to ensure continuous customer success.

Our management team is unmatched in experience within the network security marketspace and has received the largest amount of industry awards from business and trade publishing organizations. The company's position as the leading privately-held network security systems supplier has been validated by more than $93 million in venture funding from the industry's leading venture capital firms. Fortinet sells its system and subscription service products through a network of selected system and distributors and resellers worldwide. Our thousands of global customers include service providers, enterprises and small businesses.

Superior Security Solutions

Fortinet Corporate Awards Using Fortinet's ASIC innovation and performance acceleration capabilities, FortiGate Systems detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. In addition to providing application level protection, FortiGate systems give users their choice of 'best in class' network-level services - firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping - delivering a complete network protection services in dedicated, easily managed platforms. These products and subscription services have won the industry's largest number of awards and certifications while continue to lead the performance benchmarks for either individual 'best in class security applications' or as an integrated Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution

Delivering Global Customer Value

Fortinet Certifications With more than a dozen patents pending, FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls employ breakthroughs in ASIC design, networking, security and content analysis. Our architecture analyzes network content and behavior in real time, enabling all key network services - including real-time Web applications - be screened for both network and content-level threats without impacting network performance. Our unique combination of FortiOS security applications, FortiGate security systems, FortiGuard Subscription services and FortiGuard Distribution Network ensures continuous network security for our global customer base.

The company also addresses key vertical markets security requirements that customers need to address their regulatory compliance needs such HIPAA/Healthcare, GLBA & Basil II/Financial, CIPA/Education, FIPS 140-2 & Common Criteria EAL4+/Government and others.