Fortinet retains leadership in UTM security market

Fortinet has retained its worldwide leadership of the Unified Threat
Management (UTM) security appliance market for the second consecutive year,
according to an IDC report.

Fortinet said in a statement that new statistics in the IDC report,
"Worldwide Threat Management Security App-liances 2005-2009 Forecast and
2004 Vendor Shares: Security Appliances Remain a Well Oiled Machine," show
that it held 18.1 percent of the UTM market in 2004.

Fortinet delivers security applications (firewall, antivi-rus, intrusion
prevention syst-ems (IPS), VPN, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping)
that are deployed separately on its FortiGate systems, or collectively to
comprise a unified multi-threat mana-gement system.

According to the IDC report, the UTM segment of the Threat Management
Appliance category continued to be the fastest-growing segment of the security
appliance market in 2004. Strong global custo-mer demand for UTM systems, which
integrate multiple security applications into one device, generated more than
$330 million in revenues and led to a 200 percent growth rate compared to 2003.

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