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Fortinet
Fortinet is the pioneer and world's leading provider of Unified Threat Management (UTM) security systems that enable secure business communications and deliver the best security, performance and total cost of ownership available. Our award-winning security systems and subscription services protect the networks of more than 20,000 customers worldwide - including telecommunications carriers, service providers and enterprises of all sizes.
 
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) and is led by a strong and seasoned management team with deep experience in the networking and security arenas. Fortinet's position as the leading privately-held network security company has been validated by more than $100 million in funding from the industry's leading venture capital firms. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Fortinet sells its system and subscription service products through a network of channel partners worldwide.

Fortinet Solutions Deliver Unmatched Security, Performance and TCO
Fortinet offers an array of multi-threat security solutions that help businesses of all sizes meet their security challenges and enable a safe and clean communications environment. Fortinet built its comprehensive security platform from the ground up to provide multiple layers of threat protection and management. This translates into increased deployment flexibility and better security through integration, a "future-proof" solution that can easily scale with business requirements. 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. FortiGate systems integrate the industry's broadest suite of security protections - including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, antispam, and traffic shaping - that can be deployed individually or combined for a comprehensive unified threat management solution.
 
 
We utilise Fortinet products in our hardware security offerings.
 

Other information...
 
If a Linux based system is implemented, in some cases we will use firewall facilities of the software.  However, if budgets allow we will recommend the use of a hardware firewall from the Fortinet range..
 
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Security Summary
 
Security: 
Fortinet integrate many security technologies, providing them in purpose-built, hardware-based devices optimized to security tasks they perform. Key technologies include:

VPN: 
VPN solutions offer resilient, secure connectivity between headquarters locations and remote offices, mobile workers as well as business partners, in lieu of frame-relay or private lines. 

Denial of service protection: 
In order to mitigate the affect of brute force and other network-based attacks, customers deploy Fortinet's high-performance products to secure their Web infrastructures.

Firewall: 
Fortigate firewalls provide robust network access control and attack containment features that let customers protect the perimeter and core network infrastructures. 

Intrusion prevention: 
The Fortigate intrusion prevention appliances go beyond traditional intrusion detection products by accurately detecting network, application and hybrid attacks and offering customers the ability to drop the attack to stop it from compromising vital resources.

 

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