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Safe enough to say, the recently introduced Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, also known as CISPA–now making its way through the U.S. Senate–has generated enough controversy to place itself squarely int...

It’s a fact: Today’s threats have made the threats of yesterday a vision in the rear-view mirror, along with the security counterparts developed to tackle them. It’s also quite known that the legacy firewall is easily circumven...

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 ...

Fortinet is conducting a 2010 network security survey. Completing the 15 multiple choice questions automatically enters takers into a drawing for a chance to win one of three new Apple iPads. By taking this survey, you are help...

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...

A team of British eccentrics has broken the 103-year-old record for a steam-powered car, previously standing at 127mph. The record now stands at close to 140mph, but with the super heated steam being injected into the turbine a...

Earlier this week, independent analyst Richard Stiennon posted a video interview he did with Michael Xie. From Stiennon’s blog post: Michael Xie is CTO of Fortinet and drives all of their development of true “Next Gener...

I decided it was high time I changed my car, well it was either that or wash it. So not being a car-o-phile I didn’t have a specific model in mind so decided to head to that area of down where all the showrooms are locate...

We are entering (arguably we have already entered) a digitally bound world where business, service and information flow is bountiful. In parallel, threats have been very active: we have seen a constant increase in malicious cod...

Strictly speaking, it’s a wagon, with a band on it, made popular in the circus entertainment business. I imagine going round a circus ring on a wagon was preferable to walking round during the days when performing animals were ...