New viruses, worms and other forms of unwanted and often malicious network
traffic attack networks, from small offices to large enterprises and carriers,
everyday.  In fact, 90 percent of 500 companies responding to a 2004
FBI/Computer Security Institute survey said they had suffered a security
breach, and 80 percent said they had suffered financial loss as a result of a
network attack.  Fortinet's FortiGate(TM) systems reside at the Internet
gateway and serve as a network security platform to prevent these threats
before entering customers' networks.
    With Fortinet's FortiProtect Premier Service, customers are protected from
viruses appearing "in the wild," new viruses, worms and malware, and viruses
that are currently spreading in customers' networks through email.  Within
three hours of receiving the related 'hot' virus sample from the customer, the
geographically diverse Fortinet antivirus team residing in North America,
Europe and Asia analyzes the sample and provides updated antivirus signatures
that will stop the threat from entering their networks.
    "Never underestimate the disastrous damage caused to networks by today's
mixed bag of cyber-threats," said Joe Wells, Chief Antivirus Scientist at
Fortinet and Founder of the WildList Organization International. "Users must
protect against network attacks as new threats spring up and spread daily. It
is therefore critical that users keep their antivirus software as up-to-date
as possible."
    All Fortinet customers can also choose to receive automatic updates for
antivirus signatures via the global FortiProtect Network, including 'hot'
virus updates for threats with an impact level greater than or equal to two,
false positive updates and regularly scheduled updates.  This new service
offering, FortiProtect Premier, allows Fortinet customers to receive hot virus
updates within three hours of the virus submission.
    "Unwanted and malicious network traffic has evolved with the Internet from
viruses to sophisticated blended content threats and imminent zero-day attacks,
while increasing in potential network damage," said Richard Hanke, Vice
President of Product Management for Fortinet. "Fortinet's FortiProtect Premier
Service leverages Fortinet's expertise in the antivirus industry and best-in
class home-grown antivirus technology to mitigate any potential network damage
and protect small office to large enterprise businesses' online data from
today's increasingly harmful network threats."
    FortiProtect Premier Service is available immediately.  A free trial of
the service is available until the end of February 2005 for customers with
valid support contracts.  For more information, or to register for Fortinet's
FortiProtect Premier Service, please visit:
http://www.fortinet.com/products/premier.html

    About Fortinet (http://www.fortinet.com)
    Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management market.
The company's award-winning FortiGate(TM) series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus
firewalls, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network
Computing Magazine and the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of
the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They
detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and
Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and
more in real time -- without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems
are the only security products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA
(antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level
and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named
to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and
based in Sunnyvale, California.