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Partnership aims to strengthen company's inroads into large enterprises and financial firms
SEOUL, Korea. - October 20, 2008
- Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions,
today announced the appointment of Youngwoo Digital as a new distributor of Fortinet security appliances in South Korea. Fortinet Korea intends to reinforce its market position with large enterprise companies and within the financial sector with this new partnership. Youngwoo Digital is a solutions-focused technology partner and service provider with country-wide distribution channels for hardware, advanced technical service and network solutions. The company also partners with other leading technology vendors alongside Fortinet, who will be the key security solutions provider within Youngwoo Digital's offering.
According to Justin Lee, country manager of Fortinet Korea, "We are very pleased to partner with Youngwoo Digital, who is coming onboard with an excellent reputation in the local IT channels. Together, we believe this partnership will have a positive impact in extending both our businesses in Korea and in bringing a proven, integrated security solution to a broader set of enterprise customers in the region."
To further reinforce the partnership, Jung Myung-chul, president of Youngwoo Digital says: "In today's climate, many enterprises are demanding a secure environment upon realizing the importance of a reliable security infrastructure. With strong demand for security solutions from our resellers, we proceeded to evaluate many network security vendors before deciding to sign this strategic partnership with Fortinet, who is a leading UTM vendor in terms of revenue worldwide according to the latest IDC report."
In addition to today's news, Fortinet has recently unveiled the new enterprise-class FortiGate-5001A series, which supports 10GbE environments, as well as FortiDB, the first in a family of security appliances dedicated to database vulnerability assessment. With these new products and the partnership with Youngwoo Digital, Fortinet readies itself with a comprehensive security portfolio and strong go-to-market strategy for Korea.
Comprehensive, Integrated Security Approach
The FortiGate® appliance is the flagship product in Fortinet's network security portfolio. Accelerated by security-specific ASICs, the FortiGate appliance integrates essential security applications such as antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping. All FortiGate systems are kept up-to-date by Fortinet's FortiGuard® Network, which helps ensure protection against the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, other unwanted network traffic and more - around the clock and around the world.
FortiGate systems are complemented by FortiDB™, FortiMail™, FortiAnalyzer™ and FortiManager™ product families. For additional information about Fortinet products, please visit
http://www.fortinet.com/products.
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 six programs by ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, Network IPS, and Anti-spam. Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California. In Asia, Fortinet has offices in Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei and Tokyo.
About Youngwoo Digital (www.youngwoo.co.kr)
Youngwoo Digital, founded in 1993, is a total IT solution and service provider with nationwide distribution channels for hardware as well as advanced technical service and network solutions. Presently, Youngwoo Digital provides comprehensive IT solutions and services with partnership with global IT vendors including Fortinet, HP, Cisco, VMware, NetApp, Oracle, Symantec and FalconStor.
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