Messaging Security Appliance Earns Comparative VBSpam Certification Based on Improved Spam Catch Rate
SUNNYVALE, Calif., February 6, 2012 - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a world leader in high-performance network security – today announced the company’s FortiMail™ messaging security appliance has been awarded its 16th Virus Bulletin certification in the VBSpam Awards.
Virus Bulletin staff tested FortiMail along with 21 other antispam products from multiple countries for spam catch rates and false positive rates. In addition to winning its 16th consecutive award, the report noted that FortiMail had zero false positives out of 5,934 legitimate emails and zero false positives out of 181 email newsletters.
“Because cyber criminals continue to target enterprises, service providers and government agencies with email-based attacks, these organizations need to deploy a robust yet flexible antimalware/antispyware solution that meets rigorous third-party standards,” said Patrick Bedwell, vice president of product marketing for Fortinet. “The FortiMail solution enables organizations to implement granular policy enforcement at an individual user level while achieving extremely high throughput.”
The FortiMail family of messaging security appliances delivers proven, powerful messaging security features for any size organization, from small businesses to carriers, services providers and large enterprises. Purpose-built for the most demanding networks, the FortiMail appliances utilize Fortinet’s years of experience in helping protect networks against spam, malware and other message-borne threats.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2011 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.
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