Fortinet® — the pioneer and leading provider
of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announced that the
United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company four
additional patents for network virtualization and security related
inventions. These new patents strengthen Fortinet’s growing intellectual
property portfolio, bringing Fortinet’s total awarded patents to 17.
The four new patents reflect Fortinet’s focus, as a leading UTM vendor, on
innovative methods for efficiently processing network data while applying
various security-related filtration processes within a consolidated and
accelerated platform. Three of the newly awarded patents are directed to
the routing and processing of data in virtualized environments. In addition
to these four new patents, Fortinet has more than 80 patent-pending and
in-process applications.
“These patents support Fortinet’s innovation and vision for an integrated,
multi-threat and virtualized approach to network security — groundswell
areas for the networking and security industries,” said Michael Xie, CTO
and co-founder of Fortinet. “As we continue our strong research and
development efforts, our growing patent portfolio provides momentum for
accelerating the course of innovation we are undertaking.”
Fortinet’s new patents are key in propelling some of the highest impact
technologies and business trends of the day — security consolidation and
virtualization. As enterprise companies of all sizes look for ways to
economize without compromising the safety of their networks, security
consolidation and virtualization provide a powerful approach for maximizing
both human and capital resources.
Integrated network and application security, together with virtualization
technologies, offer a powerful and synergistic approach for defending
against an increasingly dangerous cyber-criminal environment. In
combination with its extensive patent-pending applications and patents
already granted, Fortinet’s newest patents address critical technologies
that enable comprehensive network protection:
-- U.S. Patent #7,333,430 - Systems and Methods for Passing Network
Traffic Data - directed to efficiently processing network traffic data to
facilitate policy enforcement, including content scanning,
source/destination verification, virus scanning, content detection and
intrusion detection;
-- U.S. Patent #7,340,535 - System and Method for Controlling Routing in
a Virtual Router System - directed to controlling the routing of network
data, and providing efficient configuration of routing functionality and
optimized use of available resources by applying functions to data packets
in a virtual environment;
-- U.S. Patent #7,376,125 - Service Processing Switch - directed to
providing IP services and IP packet processing in a virtual router-based
system using IP flow caches, virtual routing engines, virtual services
engines and advanced security engines;
-- U.S. Patent # 7,389,358 - Distributed Virtual System to Support
Managed, Network-based Services - directed to a virtual routing system,
which includes processing elements to manage and optimize IP traffic,
useful for service provider switching functions at Internet point-of-
presence (POP) locations.
About Fortinet ( www.fortinet.com )
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 seven programs by ICSA Labs
(firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, network IPS, anti-spyware and anti-spam).
Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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Media Contact:
Kim Nguyen
Fortinet, Inc.
(408) 486-5458
knguyen@fortinet.com
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