MASAN GROUP CHOOSES FORTINET TO SECURE ENTIRE WAN.(Company overview)

Fortinet(R), a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions has announced that MASAN Group, a large and well-diversified homegrown success story in Vietnam, has deployed Fortinet's suite of security solutions across its WAN infrastructure supporting the food manufacturing business. To date, all the security functions that are offered through Fortinet's network security appliances -- including firewall, antivirus, VPN, IPS, anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping -- are being utilized to protect MASAN Group's network.

According to Vo Anh Chuong, MASAN Group's network infrastructure manager, "Fortinet's solution presents a cost-effective, high-performance security solution with the FortiGate's ability to operate in intra- and inter-zones to achieve redundancy through IPSec VPN across the company's WAN infrastructure." To further underscore the solution's value proposition, Vu Thanh Binh, IT director of MASAN Group said, "Fortinet's UTM approach has helped us increase work productivity by approximately 20 percent with secured gateways. This has positively impacted the company's bottom-line through the intelligent use of technology and allows us to track ROI in a transparent manner."

"We are pleased that Fortinet's network security gateway solution has provided MASAN Group with a simple, secure and scalable solution. This success reinforces Fortinet's competency and leadership in the consolidated security space and underscores UTM as sound security solution for many enterprises worldwide," added Benjamin Teh, sales director for Fortinet South Asia. "Fortinet is honored to be a vendor of choice for MASAN Group in Vietnam and we look forward to continuing to scale our security operations with them as we grow together in this region."

Products deployed by MASAN Group include Fortinet's FortiGate(R)-800, FortiGate-60B and FortiGate-100A network security appliances. In addition, the FortiManager(TM)-400A and FortiAnalyzer(TM)-800B were deployed to provide management and analysis functions.

FortiGate systems deliver real-time network protection through the integration of essential security applications and services -- including firewall, antivirus, VPN, IPS, anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping -- that can be deployed individually, or combined as a UTM solution. All FortiGate systems are kept up-to-date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard Network, which provides broad updates that help provide protection against the most damaging threats commonly found in email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, vulnerability exploit attempts and other unwanted network traffic -- around the clock and around the world.

About MASAN Group

Founded in 1996 with ten employees, Vietnam based MASAN Group has achieved exponential growth to become one of the largest enterprises in the country with more than fifteen subsidiaries and 2,000 employees. The Group's business segments are well-diversified and include food manufacturing and trading as its core businesses, bringing in about USD110M annual revenue for the company in 2007. Other business areas include investment, minerals mining, industrial and property management, which contributes another USD40M for the group annually. MASAN Group's food manufacturing arm is home to almost half of the Group's human strength and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, with four large factories across South and Central regions in the country. The division also has an additional four factories and six warehouses in the Northern Region.

For more information, visit http://www.masantrading.com.vn.

Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified in six programs by ICSA Labs (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS and Anti-Spam). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

For more information, visit http://www.fortinet.com.

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