Magazine Editors and Senior IT Professionals Among the Influential Judges for the Annual Award Galas
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 12, 2014 − Fortinet® (NASDAQ:FTNT) − a world leader in high-performance network security − today announced that its FortiGate® platform won two 2014 Network World Asia (NWA) Information Management Awards in the categories of Best Firewall & Network Security, and Best Unified Threat Management and two 2014 Computerworld Customer Care awards (one for Malaysia and one for Singapore) for excellence in Customer Service.
Network World Asia Wins
The Network World Asia awards are judged by NWA editors and 100 Asia Pacific CIOs and IT heads who read NWA or its sister publications Networks Asia, Security Asia and Storage Asia. Judging criteria used by both editors and IT leaders include reputation of vendor in the marketplace; features of the solutions; market acceptance of the technology and brand; users’ feedback on the solutions/deployments; and the solutions’ durability, scalability and quality of service. The award ceremony was held at The Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel in Singapore on June 12.
The FortiGate Advantage
Fortinet’s flagship FortiGate platform delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. To help secure wireless LANs, the platform offers a broad, flexible end-to-end solution that incorporates wireless and wired access, security, authentication, switching and management, in an easily managed system that allows system-wide policy enforcement. With it, administrators gain a broad, unified solution that provides unmatched protection, superior TCO and granular control through user authentication and device visibility across the entire network. Fortinet’s secure WLAN solution uniquely integrates security into the fabric of the network to help organizations effectively address enterprise mobility. With it, Fortinet offers one of the broadest solutions on the market for consistently helping protect enterprise wired and wireless networks.
Computerworld Customer Care Awards
The Computerworld Customer Care Awards were presented to IT providers that garnered the most end-user votes for quality of service. End users in Singapore and Malaysia were polled on vendor service levels pertaining to implementation and ongoing customer service. Areas covered by the survey included on-time and on-budget delivery of projects, ability of the deployment to meet multi-party needs, expertise of vendor employees, quality of end-user training and responsiveness of service staff. The Malaysian award ceremony was held at The Apartment at Suria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur on June 12 and the Singapore award ceremony was held at The Loof on June 11.
About FortiCare
FortiCare provides global support for all Fortinet products and services. End-users have multiple options for FortiCare contracts so that they can obtain the right level of support for their organization’s needs. Attractively priced options include 24×7 support with advanced hardware replacement, 8×5 support with enhanced Web features, premium support with technical account management and premium RMA support with enhanced service levels. In addition, Fortinet Professional Services can be engaged for projects with critical deadlines, projects that are large in scope or initial deployments.
FortiCare is closely tied into the company’s FortiGuard Services, which offers broad threat intelligence and updates including antimalware, intrusion prevention, application control, Web content filtering, anti-spam capabilities and more. These services help protect against threats seeking entry from network through endpoints, as well as those that attempt to persist and move laterally within organizations. FortiGuard Services are updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a correlated set of multi-layered security intelligence and zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. For customers with a subscription to FortiGuard, these updates are delivered to network and application security offerings, including FortiGate®, FortiMail™ and FortiClient™ products.
“We are proud to be recognized today by such influential and esteemed enterprise publications as Network World Asia, Computerworld Singapore and Computerworld Malaysia,” said Patrice Perche, senior vice president of international sales & support for Fortinet. “These accolades, and others like it, highlight the broad industry recognition we have received on the many facets of our global business − from vision to strategy, to enterprise products and customer service. We’ve come a long way in the last few years and look forward to engaging our customers even more strategically in the years ahead.”
