Fortinet to Unveil The World's Fastest Data Center Firewall at GITEX Technology Week 2013

Dubai, UAE, October 9, 2013 - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a global leader in high-performance network security – today announced that it will be present at Gitex Technology Week taking place from October 20 to 24, 2013 at the Dubai World Trade Center. The top three highlights of the company's presence during this year's edition are:

- FortiGate®-3700D, the world's fastest network firewall designed for enterprise data centers, large service providers, cloud providers and carriers. Fortinet's new compact appliance features four 40 GbE port and is able to achieve up to 160 Gigabits per second (Gbps) firewall throughput, eliminating security bottlenecks and redefining the standard for price per gigabit protected. Leveraging the latest generation of custom network processor NP6 ASIC and the industry's most advanced FortiOS 5 network security operating system, the FortiGate-3700D enables best-in-class security performance, low latency, high availability and IPv4 to IPv6 performance parity.

- Bashar Bashaireh, Senior Regional Director for Fortinet Middle East and Pakistan, will discuss on “Cyber Security – How it affects us all?”, organized by GITEX, on Sunday, October 20th at 4:30 pm in Sheikh Rashid Hall.

- Emilio Roman, Vice President International Sales Operations at Fortinet, will share his insights during the dedicated session “Enterprise Security and BYOD challenges”, organized by GITEX, on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 4:30 pm in Sheikh Rashid Hall. 

Fortinet will also present on its booth (Hall 2, Stand B2-1) its end-to-end IT security portfolio through presentations and demos on the following themes: High Performance Testing, Next Generation Firewall, Applications Security Management and Wireless LAN Security.

In addition, during the GITEX Technology Week event, Fortinet's executives Patrice Perche (Senior Vice President of Fortinet International Sales and Support) and Alain Penel (Regional Vice President of Fortinet Middle East) will be available to discuss the industry trends, the company's market vision as well as Fortinet's business strategy in the Middle East region.