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SUNNYVALE, Calif, – October 22, 2007– Fortinet® – the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions – today announced that LockNET, a Midwest-based managed security service provider (MSSP) and accredited member of the MSPAlliance, has replaced its previous SonicWall firewalls and have standardized on Fortinet’s FortiGate™ multi-threat security systems to provision its nfire™ network security management solution. LockNET’s nfire network security offering provides firewall, antivirus, Web content filtering, anti-spam, VPN and intrusion prevention functionality to its small and medium business customers.
After meeting with Fortinet and a thorough evaluation of UTM product functions and management capabilities, LockNET saw the potential to streamline deployment and centrally manage security services with an integrated platform combining firewall, antivirus, Web content filtering, anti-spam, VPN and intrusion prevention functionality into one appliance. Rather than having multiple vendors, such as SonicWall and Symantec, for different security functionalities, LockNET saw the advantage of having one integrated network security appliance provided by Fortinet. In addition, LockNET determined that management and reporting of the appliances would become much easier because of a common graphical user interface across all platforms and the use of FortiManager™ and FortiAnalyzer™.
Deployment to a wide variety of customers required flexible capabilities. LockNET has installed many different models of FortiGate appliances ranging from the FortiGate-60 family of multi-threat security appliance through the FortiGate-400A multi-threat security system, plus FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer. Many of these end users are leveraging the FortiGate appliances to help create secure and encrypted VPN connections using the Internet between locations. This in turn helps to save customers significant dollars per month in connections between locations compared to traditional dedicated point-to-point solutions. LockNET has also used multiple Fortinet installations at different locations to allow a single customer disaster recovery and business continuity in the case of a failure at the main location. For desktop security, LockNET has purchased Fortinet’s FortiClient™ endpoint security solution to be installed on each customer machine, often at much lower pricing than competitive desktop antivirus software packages.
“Fortinet has allowed us to expand our offering from a basic firewall provided by multiple vendors to a single network security solution that includes firewall, VPN, intrusion protection, Web content filtering and much more,” Steve Lubahn, vice president of sales and marketing at LockNET. “Fortinet’s robust security solution along with its high-performance ASIC processing has allowed us to help our customers’ businesses grow while ensuring their networks are secure.”