| History |
| 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 approximately $100 million in 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.
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| Product and Services |
| Fortinets award-winning FortiGate series of ASIC-accelerated Antivirus Firewalls are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They 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. The FortiGate systems deliver a full range of network-level services firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping as well as application-level services such as antivirus and content filtering, in dedicated, easily managed platforms. |
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