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	Competitive lab test: Fortinet FortiMail-4000A vs. Cisco IronPort C350 e-mail se Service providers and enterprise network architects can benefit from the adoption and deployment of integrated tools that offer protection from E-mail abuse. This Tolly Competitive Lab Test focused on anti-spam/anti-virus. 02-01-2008

	One Solution Aims to Secure Multiple Systems Managing IT security software and appliances isn't getting easier. Most companies operate under what seem to be ever-changing, ever-growing risks to their IT systems - whether it's denialof- service attacks choking network and application availability or a teenager from Estonia using MPack to crack their defenses. 02-01-2008

	Phishing scam uses AOL address to target eBay users Unknown phishers are using a widely recognized name, AOL, to disguise a false eBay sign-in site, according to the security research team at Fortinet. 02-01-2008

	How well are we protecting ourselves? In part two of this three-part cyber crime cover story package, Fortinet is included as author Ryan Blitstein explores what individuals and companies alike are doing to protect themselves against internet-borne threats. 02-01-2008

	Fortinet announces security virtualization strategy Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management solutions, has announced its strategy around providing virtualization to the security space, thanks to some recently approved patents for network inventions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 02-01-2008

	Laptop Security: Covering the Bases Through FortiManager, an integrated monitoring and management solution, the district receives active reporting from all laptops, regardless of whether they are on or off campus. 02-01-2008

	Virtualizing The Network For Fun And Profit Forget software and hardware upgrades, the hassle of provisioning new users and the pain of taking endpoints off line for patches and system management. 02-01-2008

	Adobe Flaw Lets In The Phishers Security vendors say a recently exposed vulnerability in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader applications is being exploited by a Russian phishing network spreading a fairly old Trojan virus. 02-01-2008

	TSA Laptops With Hazmat Driver Info Stolen The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is in hot water again for losing sensitive data, and this time around it has national security implications: Two laptops were reportedly stolen from a TSA contractor that contained personal information about commercial drivers who transport hazardous materials across the U.S. 02-01-2008

Peace (of Mind) in Our Time WiFi isn�t the only wireless security challenge facing today�s universities, however. Increasingly, university technologists and administrators are discovering they also must understand how to safeguard smart phones that rely on the GSM (global system for mobile communications) standard, notes J. Keith Fowlkes, vice chancellor for information technology and CIO for The University of Virginia College at Wise. 02-01-2008

	Antivirus & Security Issues It's a story that's been told time and time again, but for good reason, antivirus and security issues are still being preached to the IT masses. Believe it or not, you still hear grumblings of small to midsized enterprises that get hit hard because their end points have no active or installed antivirus or security programs. 02-01-2008

	Experts Flag 10 Emerging IT Security Trends Security threats and defenses must constantly evolve to keep up with developing threats. We asked security experts to identify the top information security trends that will affect small and midsize businesses over the next three to five years. 02-01-2008

	Cybercriminals on Your Doorstep Cybercriminals are now even willing to go right to their victim's front door: In a new so-called "pay on delivery" scam, the bad guy poses as a delivery service, delivers a bogus package, and collects the victim's COD payment. 02-01-2008

	ABN Amro suffers p2p data breach A former employee of Citi's ABN Amro Mortgage group leaked the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of more than 5,000 customers via a peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing network. 02-01-2008

Fortinet in the Leaders Quadrant of Leading Industry Analyst Firm's 2H07 Enterpr Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewall Magic Quadrant, 2H07" report. According to the Gartner report, the enterprise network firewall market is driven primarily by the requirement to provide network policy enforcement and intrusion prevention at trust boundary points. Also, as the report's authors state: "There are many viable firewall providers, but the leading vendors provide a path to more inspection and blocking capabilities at higher speeds and at lower price points." 20-09-2007

	Mobile Operator 3 Protects its 700,000 Subscribers with Fortinet Solutions Fortinet® today announced that 3 Scandinavia, a leading mobile operator in Sweden and Denmark, has implemented Fortinet's FortiGate™-5020 carrier-class security systems and FortiGuard™ Anti-virus and Anti-spam subscription services to secure its mobile network of 700,000 mobile subscribers in Scandinavia. 20-09-2007

Fortinet Completes its Largest Web Content Filtering Deployment, Protecting More Fortinet® today announced the completion of its largest Web content filtering deployment to date, securing more than 800,000 students and school staff at HEAnet, Ireland's National Research and Education network. Fortinet's FortiGate™-5140 multi-threat security systems and FortiGuard™ Web Filtering and Antivirus services have been deployed in HEAnet data centers to protect 4,000 primary and secondary schools across Ireland. 20-09-2007

Fortinet Maintains No. 1 Worldwide UTM Revenue Position According to Leading Mar Fortinet® today announced that new IDC research data confirms that the company ranked No. 1 for worldwide UTM revenue for Q1 2007, ahead of Check Point, Cisco, Crossbeam, Juniper and SonicWall. Additionally, IDC data confirmed that Fortinet experienced significant quarter over quarter growth in both factory revenue and units shipped in a key enterprise UTM price band segment, further acquiring market share from its competitors. 20-09-2007

	Users Should Be Wary When Web Sites Ask For Too Much Info Fortinet is warning users to ignore even legitimate sites' requests for e-mail and IM login information because handing it out is a bad habit to get into. 20-09-2007

	Confusion 2.0: Keep a Tight Grip on Personal Data In a report, Fortinet researchers warn that respected sites are lowering users' security defenses. 20-09-2007

	Security: All in One vs. Best of Breed In June, the FBI announced the results of an investigation it dubbed "Operation Bot Roast," and the findings were sobering. 20-09-2007

	Take A Crash Course In Security Risks There's no such thing as a business too small to worry about information security; moreover, if you're big enough to network two computers and connect them to the Internet, you're big enough to have to think about protecting the network as well as the individual computers. 20-09-2007

	IDC: SCM is Hot Spam is one way hackers get into your computer, to use it as a launch pad for criminal activity. According to research firm IDC, the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Secure Content Management (SCM) appliance market all posted double digit revenue gains in the first quarter of 2007. 20-09-2007

	FBI Warns Of New Email Scams Spam is one way hackers get into your computer, to use it as a launch pad for criminal activity. The FBI says it's identified over a million computers taken over by bad guys, unbeknownst to their owners, and there may be millions more. 20-09-2007

	Secures what ails you Unified threat management sounds like a miracle cure. Have security problems? Just use UTM for fast relief! Supports your security seven ways! 20-09-2007

UTM or flexible security platform? The unified threat management bucket is starting to show signs of age. So many products and vendors have been jammed into that bucket that you have the strange situation of hardware platform vendors sharing the same space with Frankenstein monster collections of security applications bundled into Linux platforms. It is time to rethink the actual directions that the gateway security space is taking. 20-09-2007

	Suddenly Swindled: Thieves Turn To Instant Messaging When a telecommunications equipment supplier fired an employee two years ago for stealing product information, it wasn't the act alone that proved worrisome - it was how it occurred. 20-09-2007

	Microsoft Speech Hit by Serious Flaws Microsoft's speech-control engines have been hit by major security flaws, according to researchers. June 13, 2007 22-06-2007

	Fortinet To Launch Enterprise Security Appliances Fortinet this week is unveiling a pair of new hardware platforms designed for large enterprises and data centers. June 12, 2007 22-06-2007

	Fortinet Discovers Critical Vulnerability Fortinet today announced that its Fortinet Global Security Research Team was key in discovering one of the latest Microsoft™ critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-2222), called the "Speech Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability," which impacts users of Microsoft Speech™. June 12, 2007 22-06-2007

	Fortinet boosts security platforms The two new devices, the FortiGate 3810A and FortiGate 3016B, are based on fresh versions of the company�s custom network processors called FortiASIC, as well as its existing FortiASIC content processor. In combination, these chips support 26Gbps firewall throughput. June 12, 2007 22-06-2007

	Fortinet Adds New Appliances Fortinet today expanded its FortiGate™-3000 Series of multi-threat security appliances with the introduction of two new products - the FortiGate-3810A and the FortiGate-3016B - and a series of expansion modules that meet or exceed the throughput requirements of enterprise and MSSP applications. June 11, 2007 22-06-2007

Takahashi: Organized Crime 2.0 missing from 'Sopranos' The world of Tony Soprano is about to come to an end with Sunday's final episode of "The Sopranos." Over seven years, the award-winning HBO TV series offered insight into the business of the modern mafia, albeit based on a fictional crime family in New Jersey. we got glimpses of garbage contracts, sonstruction scams, protection rackets, illegal gambling, track hijacking and credit card fraud. June 7, 2007 22-06-2007

	Experts: Botnets add fault tolerance Security experts contend that a growing number of operators of compromised computer networks (or "botnets") are finding new ways to grow their networks and make them immune to potential shutdowns, including sophisticated fault-tolerance planning to help ensure that their networks can't be easily wiped out. June 7, 2007 22-06-2007

	MessageLabs: Image spammers use non-registration websites to their advantage Levels of image spam held steady last month at 15 to 20 percent of all junk mail, but phishing emails were at their highest levels this year, according to just-released research from MessageLabs. June 4, 2007 22-06-2007

	Security Intelligence As it becomes clear that the new wave of information security breaches is coming by way of financially motivated, targeted attacks, IT departments must adjust their practices to meet stealthy hackers head-on. June 1, 2007 22-06-2007

	SonicWall Channel Exec Valentine Jumps To Fortinet Fortinet has tapped a seasoned channel hand to lead its channel program. Mike Valentine, formerly vice president of Americas sales and channel sales at SonicWall, on Tuesday took over as vice president of Americas channel sales at Fortinet, Sunnyvale, Calif. May 7, 2007 22-06-2007

	Image spam levels fluctuating, say vendors Image spam accounted for 27 percent of all captured April spam, a 10 percent drop from March, according to the report. Spam accounted for 65 percent of all email at the SMTP layer. May 7, 2007 22-06-2007

	HOW-TO A look inside next generation Unified Threat Management--Part II Today's UTMs are the first step on a journey from a collection of discrete security applications to a true unified barrier. Apr 17, 2007 22-06-2007

	Fortinet Finds Akamai Vulnerability Fortinet® today announced that its Fortinet Global Threat Research Team discovered a remote buffer overflow vulnerability in Akamai Download Manager (CVE-2007-1891). Apr 17, 2007 22-06-2007

	Fortinet Joins Forces With HP ProCurve Fortinet on Tuesday unveiled a partnership with Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve Networking division that highlights the growing integration of networking and security technologies. Apr 17, 2007 22-06-2007

	UTM: Ten Questions Before you Buy The notion of combining the various security devices to protect your network isn't new, but lately the market has become more competitive with the entry of CheckPoint Software's UTM-1 product. Apr 13, 2007 22-06-2007

	Designing network security: Inside Unified Threat Management This article looks at the broad issues of Unified Threat Management. Part I concentrates on what several companies, from large enterprise and service provider down to SMBs, are doing to design in a consolidated security platform. Apr 10, 2007 22-06-2007

	Experts say Microsoft should consider change in patching process Several security experts criticized Microsoft this week for not releasing a fix earlier for the Windows ANI flaw, calling for the company to reassess the way it handles critical patches. Apr 5, 2007 15-05-2007

	VARBusiness Top MidMarket Awards Recognizes FortiGate-500A (May 2005) In a review of vendors delivering products that do right by midmarket customers and partners, the Fortinet FortiGate-500A was recognized for delivering content protection by integrating seven essential security applications onto a single platform. 09-05-2007

	Phishing for Bloggers The proverbial "big fish that got away" has been found on Google's Blogger. Last week, Fortinet reported that cyber-criminals are using blogs for phishing expeditions - users that access such blogs are redirected to fraudulent sites. Phishing is the cyber-version of the classic "bait and switch." Mar 20, 2007 09-05-2007

	Headline should be : 25 Channel Executives You Need to Know Karl Soderlund, vice president of Americas sales for Fortinet, was No. 6 on this list of cutting edge channel executives Mar 20, 2007 09-05-2007

	Blogger.com Infested With Malware And Scams According the security firm Fortinet, Google's Blogger.com is being used extensively in both phishing attacks and to propagate malware. In some cases the traffic to the sites is being driven by "a variant of the Stration mass mailer" worm a Fortinet security note warns. Mar 19, 2007 09-05-2007

	Shine The Spotlight: 5-Star Partner Programs Fortinet was named a Five-Star Partner by VARBusiness for the second consecutive year. Mar 19, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet spots malware, phishing on Google Blogger.com pages Hundreds of weblogs on Google's Blogger.com platform are being used in phishing attacks or to disseminate malware, according to research released this week by Fortinet. Mar 19, 2007 09-05-2007

	Blogger System Sites Used for Phishing "In a recent security advisory Fortinet is reporting that due to Blogger's popularity, hackers have started to embed malicious scripts on some blogs. 'These scripts have shown up on hundreds of Blogger.com sites. Mar 16, 2007 09-05-2007

	Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers According to Fortinet, Genuine-looking blogs on topics as wide-ranging as "Star Wars, school, furniture, Christmas, cars and girlfriends" are now being created to host a variety of script-initiated malware. Mar 16, 2007 09-05-2007

	Blogger.com vulnerable to phishing threat Google's popular, free weblog hosting service Blogger.com appears to have been infiltrated by a spam e-mail ring that is setting up fake blogs, according to a security company. Mar 16, 2007 09-05-2007

	Security Bites Podcast Microsoft took a Patch Tuesday hiatus this week, but Apple stepped in and released two updates with fixes for 46 vulnerabilities. That's more security holes than Microsoft has repaired in the past three months. Mar 16, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet: Beware of Google's Blogger Surfing Google's Blogger Web site is dangerous, warns Fortinet. Several of the blogs on the site have been taken over by miscreants and redirect to phishing Web sites or try to load malicious software onto PCs, the security firm said in an alert Wednesday. Mar 15, 2007 09-05-2007

	Unsafe On Blogger: Star Wars, Girlfriends, Drugs Security firm Fortinet has found a lot of malicious code posted on Google's Blogger service, with a mass mailer worm directing spam recipients to it in some instances. Mar 15, 2007 09-05-2007

	Yet more vulnerabilities in major security products Several vulnerabilities have been found in McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator management tool, which could be exploited to gain remote access to systems running the software. Mar 15, 2007 09-05-2007

	Blogger.com targeted by online criminals A few weeks ago, casual surfers to the official Super Bowl XLI site were exposed to malicious exploits, not by design but rather because vandals attempted to poison a legitimate Web experience. Mar 14, 2007 09-05-2007

	What's Driving Cyber Crime? There is surprisingly little written about the underlying drivers for the rise of cyber crime. Last spring I was asked to present a Doomsday Scenario at a security trade show in Boston. Mar 12, 2007 09-05-2007

	COVER STORY: Networks Under Siege In a world where hackers are mounting ever-more harmful threats, companies are building up their arsenals by adding new types of security products Mar 12, 2007 09-05-2007

	Burger, Fries & Security Whipping out that credit or debit card at your local fast-food restaurant may be convenient, but it has also put the so-called quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector under the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard microscope. Mar 12, 2007 09-05-2007

	Malware Threat Report for February 2007 Fortinet has announced the most threatening reported malware activities and top 10 threats for February 2007. Mar 2, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet Buys the Rest of CoSine Network security vendor Fortinet Inc is about to announce that it has acquired the remaining assets of defunct carrier and MSP security developer CoSine Communications Inc whose intellectual property it bought in May 2006. Mar 1, 2007 09-05-2007

Boxed In The industry has seen a steady shift from standalone technologies like firewalls to unified threat management (UTM) appliances. These devices, which integrate antivirus, antispyware, intrusion prevention and firewall onto a single platform with a common policy engine and centralized alerts and logs, have long appealed to small and midsized businesses short on staff and budget. Mar 2007 09-05-2007

	Multifunction Security Appliances Several years ago, Marcus Ranum, security industry luminary and inventor of the proxy firewall, began talking about the emergence of a "god box" - a single appliance capable of handling all aspects of network security. Feb 23, 2007 09-05-2007

	Securing The Perimeter With IPv6 Major network and security vendors have raced against the clock to inject support for a new IP-addressing scheme--Internet Protocol version 6--into flagship firewall lines to help federal agencies meet a looming White House deadline. Feb 19, 2007 09-05-2007

Balancing Risk Against Opportunity Laws coming into effect this year expand requirements to retain e-mail and other documents, and encrypt confidential consumer data being stored. Changes to laws protecting the privacy of customer's confidential information also are on tap for 2007. Following California's lead, about 30 states have imposed rules that require organizations to disclose when data leaks have occurred. Jan 30, 2007 09-05-2007

	Broken Windows: Clean-up or Rebuild? According to Brian Krebs, security blogger for the Washington Post, writes that as of Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007, Fortinet showed the best results in antivirus scanning of new malicious threats above other tested vendors. Jan 25, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet Adds NAC To FortiGate Appliance Fortinet this week took the wraps off an SMB-focused version of its flagship FortiGate appliance that marries networking and security functions. Jan 24, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet switch enforces NAC policies Fortinet this week plans to announce an enterprise access switch that enforces NAC policies as well as a host of other security functions the company is already noted for. Jan 23, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet Unifies Networking, Security Fortinet today announced the FortiGate-224B(tm), the first in a line of unified security and networking platforms that uniquely integrate multiple layers of threat protection with granular security access controls to help safeguard against both external and internal network threats without the need for multiple point solutions. Jan 23, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet Switches into NAC Fortinet Inc, known primarily as an unified threat management appliance vendor, will today unveil its take on the network access control space, releasing a UTM-switch device aimed at remote and branch offices. Jan 22, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet device steps up security support Fortinet this week is announcing an enterprise access switch that also functions as a small-office WAN router and multifunction security platform, reducing the number of devices that need to be managed in branch offices. Jan 22, 2007 09-05-2007

	IE flaws stats stark, but omit big picture That's the question Laurence Olivier's sadistic Nazi dentist asked Dustin Hoffman over and over again as he plucked out Hoffman's teeth sans Novocain in the 1976 thriller Marathon Man. Jan 16, 2007 09-05-2007

	Who's on first? Richard Stiennon, a former Gartner Inc. analyst, has joined Fortinet Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. In the newly created position of chief marketing officer. Stiennon will be responsible for driving the company's branding and go-to-market strategies. Jan 15, 2007 09-05-2007

	Feedback Abuse Happening At EBay Pumping up the feedback leads to being perceived as a better eBay seller, and that can lead to being able to command a higher selling price for items. Some people use transactions for virtually worthless items on eBay solely to mutually drive up feedback ratings. Jan 11, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fortinet Adds ASIC Booster to UTM Appliances Fortinet Inc has upgraded the hardware of its latest line of unified threat management appliances, saying it will offer up to a 200% improvement in performance in some circumstances. Jan 10, 2007 09-05-2007

Fortinet: An Alternative Security Vendor To Watch In researching a story on the troubles and challenges at Check Point Software Technologies -- the company that brought the first commercially viable firewall to market -- I expected to hear many dissatisfied solution providers opting for leading alternatives, namely Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Surprisingly, the name that kept rising to the top: Fortinet. Jan 10, 2007 09-05-2007

	Trojans target online gamers, put businesses at risk Password-stealing Trojans, malicious code contained inside apparently harmless programming, are infamous for targeting financial institutions. But there's another area that they covet -- games -- and you might be shocked to learn just how vulnerable you are. Jan 9, 2007 09-05-2007

	Microsoft Patches 10 Bugs, Omits Word Fixes Microsoft on Tuesday released four security updates to patch 10 vulnerabilities, seven of them judged "critical." But the company failed to fix multiple flaws in its popular word processor that have been exploited by attackers for more than a month. Jan 9, 2007 09-05-2007

	New flaw found in Microsoft Excel Researchers from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security vendor Fortinet Inc. and Danish vulnerability clearinghouse Secunia are warning of a new flaw in Microsoft Excel that attackers could exploit to run malicious code on targeted machines. Jan 9, 2007 09-05-2007

	Pre-Patch Tuesday flaws reported in Microsoft Excel, Internet Explorer 6 Security experts today reported two vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products - one of which likely will not be patched until next month's security update. Jan 9, 2007 09-05-2007

	New Excel Flaw Does Exist A highly critical problem in Microsoft's much-utilized spreadsheet program Excel will be formally disclosed and patched by Microsoft later today. Jan 9, 2007 09-05-2007

	Fraud on eBay: Causes and Cures EBay's success makes it a huge target on the Internet. Scammers are attracted to eBay like moths to a flame; the problem is that it's the eBay buyers and sellers who wind up burned. Jan 8, 2007 09-05-2007

	The year ahead: Juggling IT risks, opportunities In 2007, IT executives will need to clearly evaluate risk as they weigh sometimes opposing proposals to bolster security, increase wireless connectivity, extend more business processes over the Internet and address regulatory requirements. Jan 3, 2007 09-05-2007

	People on the move Richard Stiennon is to take on the role of chief marketing officer at Fortinet. Jan 1, 2007 09-05-2007