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Fortinet/Dacom Release - 2 “Dacom is focused on leading-edge, growth-oriented markets such as e-business, information security and Internet data centers. In order to develop a solid managed security service, we needed a technology partner with a security solution that our customers would feel confident using,” says Lee Chang-woo, vice president of Dacom, who leads the company’s e-biz division. “The performance of the FortiGate systems is unmatched in the market, and the ability to deliver comprehensive security at wire speeds is absolutely critical for Internet service providers.” The FortiGate systems that will be shipped for the Secure Box service offer eight security functions: antivirus, firewall, network intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IDP), virtual private network (VPN), content filtering, traffic shaping, and e-mail filtering. All models in the FortiGate product family employ Fortinet’s unique FortiASIC content processing chip and the powerful, secure, FortiOS operating system to achieve breakthrough price/performance. The unique, ASIC-based architecture goes beyond “deep packet inspection,” which can miss many attacks, and employs complete content protection technology to reassemble and analyze content and behavior across hundreds or thousands of packets while maintaining real-time performance. The result is a combination of services and performance that cannot be matched using conventional layer 3/layer 4 networking architectures, or by deploying software applications on conventional computer systems. Says Chung Man-jin, president of Sysone, “Fortinet’s integrated security solutions support automated updates, removing the burden of constant and cumbersome management from our support staff. The FortiGate systems are also very scaleable, enabling us to quickly grow our business and add new customers without constantly having to worry about whether or not the systems can support the new workload. The Fortinet solutions are optimized for setting up security policies and handling glitches as quickly as possible when the network hosts a number of users, which is a major benefit to our customers.”
Fortinet/Dacom Release - 3 “In Korea, managed security services are gaining momentum, particularly within small to medium sized enterprises (SME’s) where IT departments are typically smaller and budgets are stretched thin,” said Richard Kagan, vice president of marketing at Fortinet. “As SME’s scale their businesses, expand operations and build out global network resources, their exposure to the growing number of Internet-borne security threats also grows. Dacom, Fortinet and Sysone have developed a security service that can eliminate damaging financial and productivity costs that result from attacks such as the most recent MyDoom outbreak.” As an initial step, Fortinet offers the FortiGate-60 solution for Dacom’s small enterprise clients with less than 50 employees. Later in the first quarter of 2004, Dacom will expand the product offering to include the whole range of security products from Fortinet. The carrier-class FortiGate 4000 platform is scheduled to be added to the Dacom service in the second half of this year. Dacom Corp. (www.dacom.net ) Dacom, established in 1982, is South Korea’s second-largest fixed-line carrier, specializing in data telecommunications. Dacom, a unit of LG Group, the country’s second-largest conglomerate, is in the forefront of the information technology industry by offering high-quality corporate telecommunications networks for corporate clients. The company also runs Chollian, a pioneering Internet portal, and powers corporate Internet networks in the Asia-Pacific region. Dacom set out offering 002 international telephone service in 1991 and joined the local telephony service in 1996, infusing fresh energy into the country’s rigid telecommunications market which had long been monopolized by KT Corp. Dacom is now playing a leading role in the fast-developing e-business, information security and Internet data center sectors, while setting a new standard for convergence technologies that piece together fixed-line, mobile and broadcasting. About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com) Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time – without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems, the only ICSA quadruple-certified security products (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS), deliver a full range of network-level services in addition to application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Fortinet,
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