Jon's Network

(Link: Fortinet) started out about 10 years ago as a small company making this new-fangled thing dubbed later by IDC a UTM device. They have been the market leader in the UTM market for a while now and offer appliances for every size network. They offer a variety of solutions beyond firewalls including endpoint security, antispam, database security, vulnerability management and web application security.

(Link: Fortinet)

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Fortinet went public in November 2009 and it went well. The ticker is FTNT. There is a press release here. Cramer spent a whole segment teaching everyone about the UTM market.

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In November 2007 I predicted that Fortinet would add SSL inspection to their Fortigate appliances to catch up with Palo Alto Networks. I was wrong by 4 months. FortOS 4.0, with SSL inspection, was released today. It boasts: Application Control SSL Inspection Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) WAN Optimization The first three are to catch up [...]

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When you download UltraSurf 9.3, you get a file called u.exe. This file was submitted to Virustotal on 2/26/2009 and the results are here. Only 3 out of 38 companies identified Ultrasurf 9.3 as malware. Fortinet, Prevx1 and Quick Heal of India. Contrast that with this Virustotal scan of UltraSurf 8.8 from 3/13/2008 where 9 [...]

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Selker Leadership interviewed Fortinet CFO Ken Goldman. Here’s his outlook on the coming year: In terms of ’09, the conventional wisdom says it’s going to be a horrible year – but I never believe conventional wisdom. I think Q1 will be a horrible quarter – a really horrible quarter actually. But that could become a [...]

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Fortinet’s Fortiguard Web Filtering Service is a hosted service consisting of two parts, the FortiGuard Rating Server and the FortiGate multi-threat security system. The FortiGuard Rating Server is a master ratings database that consists of billions of web page addresses. The FortiGuard Web Filtering service can be activated on all FortiGate security systems to regulate and block access to harmful, inappropriate and dangerous websites which may contain Phishing attacks and/or malware such as spyware. (Link: Fortiguard Web Filtering Service)

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A customer recently evaluated Brightmail, Fortimail 400 and Barracuda 600. They said Barracuda would have been great had it been the only one they tested, since the reporting impressed them, but they noticed the poor catch-rate once they tested Brightmail and Fortimail. Fortimail ended up winning the deal. Spam filtering – Barracuda detection rates were [...]

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When I found out that Fortinet and Riverbed were forming an alliance to “uniquely” address security and acceleration, I immediately thought of Blue Coat, who has been taking this WAN-optimization and security approach for about two years now. The Fortinet/Riverbed alliance just validates the Blue Coat approach in my eyes. If you watch the Office, [...]

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