Fortinet Unveils New Network Security Expert Certification Program - Seite 2

Expanding Partner Opportunities
For channel partners, the new program offers additional courses and higher levels of certifications that are designed to help them sell more products and provide higher levels of support. Among other things, an NSE certification is designed to help enable Fortinet partners to:

• Leverage Fortinet's full range of network security products while consolidating solutions and reducing risk
• Validate network security skills and experience
• Accelerate sales and the ability to offer new services
• Demonstrate value and a desire to stay up to date with technical skills to current and future employers

In addition, the NSE program also offers a number of tangible benefits for partners specific to their level, which include enhanced escalation, invitations to NSE-only events and public recognition.

Fortinet also supports college students and graduates looking to pursue network or security industry professions by working with educational institutions around the world. Fortinet provides these institutions with equipment, subscriptions and curriculum, among other things, which ultimately helps prepare them to meet NSE certification criteria.

"The launch of Fortinet's NSE program gives partners like Industry Retail Group (IRG) additional resources to further validate our network security expertise to customers," said Mike Luzio, CEO & president of IRG. "This kind of industry-wide recognition represents a tangible way to demonstrate industry expertise, which will help provide a competitive advantage when approaching new customers for both IRG and Fortinet."

The Fortinet NSE Advantage
Fortinet is a leading global provider of high-performance network security appliances, serving the majority of the Fortune Global 500 companies and boasting more than 190,000 customers worldwide. In 2013, the company surpassed Juniper as the third largest network security company in the world behind Cisco and Check Point, according to IDC.

For channel partners, service providers, and other network security professionals, the new industry-wide certification recognizes Fortinet's leadership position in network security and the pervasiveness of its products around the world that serve a large and rapidly growing customer base ranging from distributed offices to large carriers, data centers and multinational enterprises.