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As you may know, Fortinet will be at Hashdays 2012. And the reverse naM and I have designed a challenge for you. As it is a difficult challenge subtle sentence to pique your curiosity we will be opening the contest a few days ...

UPDATED Apr 17 with new information Today NSS Labs, an independent security testing organization, issued a report which states it found holes in five of six network firewalls. Fortinet was named as one of these firewalls, and ...

The recent widespread DoS attacks directed at a number of sites in the wake of l’affaire Assangehas prompted several of our customers to ask how Fortinet can help them reduce the effects of a DoS attack. The news has been full...

People frequently ask me about certifications and what they all mean. Here at Fortinet, we realize that looking at marketing specs or documentation isn’t always enough when you’re looking for the ideal security solution. After ...

When it comes to antivirus, how much coverage do you need? Everyone has different concerns when it comes to antivirus coverage. Some people want to circle the wagons and let very little into their networks, while others need so...

With all of the features available in the FortiGate operating system, such as our antivirus, web filtering, IPS and antispam, together with the newer additions such as SSL VPN, DLP, WAN Optimization, etc., it is easy to overloo...

Let’s admit, whilst IPSec VPN has traditionally been the standard for secure remote access it has never been the easiest to configure. The client software installation, pre-shared key distribution and the inevitable debug...

I’ve been asked to provide a little more information on what else we can provide in the web filtering space, particularly when it comes to service providers and how they can solve one of the main problems when considering a res...

While web filtering provides a company with the ability to limit where users visit on the the Internet, what if some users - managers, guests or whole departments - needed access to these categories or subsets of those categori...

At Fortinet, we have created an innovative approach to web filtering that combines the advantages of cloud-based services with a layered response caching option - our FortiGuard web filtering services. FortiGuard data centers ...

Today was another big milestone in the history of the company I co-founded and I’m very happy to have this opportunity to tell you about it. Fortinet has released FortiOS 4.0, the firmware upgrade for our FortiGate securi...