Fortinet FortiSandbox Catches Zero-Day and Advanced Threats Hidden in IE, MS Office Files, PDFs, Web Page URLs, Zip Files and Network File Share Locations

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - February 24, 2015) - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) -- a global leader in high-performance cyber security -- today announced the launch of FortiSandbox 2.0, delivering enhanced features to their top-rated FortiSandbox Advanced Threat Detection Appliances and FortiSandbox Cloud solutions with the power to discover and isolate more advanced threats from more places than ever before. Integrated with FortiGate, FortiSandbox Cloud offers the ability to quarantine compromised users and end points with one-click, delivering additional mitigation against zero-day and advanced threats. When used together with FortiMail, previously unknown email threats are proactively and automatically blocked. FortiSandbox 2.0 combined with Fortinet's Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Framework ensures a new level of protection from sophisticated cyber threats.

Protection from Advanced Threats
In today's cybersecurity landscape, what you can't detect can hurt you; with highly targeted and tailored attacks increasingly bypassing traditional security defenses disguised as innocuous files constantly exchanged in an organization's day-to-day workflow.

Combatting these advanced threats, Fortinet's FortiSandbox enhances its independently rated and NSS Labs Recommended 99% breach detection rating with new features that scan more file types including Microsoft Office, PDFs, Internet Explorer, web URLs, shared file repositories and can even unzip and scan archived files so IT departments have confidence that they are protected from malicious code no matter where it tries to hide.

"The number one most exploited vector for attacks within an enterprise has consistently been through organizational emails," said John Maddison, Vice President, Marketing Products at Fortinet. "Our updated FortiSandbox 2.0 and overhauled Advanced Threat Protection Framework were engineered to shine a light on the dark places, like emails and attached documents, where many other security solutions just can't see. This provides Fortinet customers with the peace of mind that they are protected from the most nefarious threats out there."