Fortinet Earns Top Marks in Independent Comparison of Anti-Spam Solutions

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - May 03, 2016) -

Michael Xie, founder, president and chief technology officer, Fortinet

"Email continues to be a primary source for malware, data loss, and other enterprise attacks. As this latest round of testing continues to show, Fortinet's FortiMail secure email gateway solution delivers world-class enterprise email protection. But beyond that, it is also designed to operate as a critical part of our tightly integrated Fortinet Security Fabric that shares threat intelligence to deliver coordinated responses to attacks anywhere across the distributed enterprise network."

News Summary:

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, today announced another VBSpam+ certification in Virus Bulletin's latest VBSpam comparative review. This marks FortiMail's fifth consecutive 99.9+ final score with a 99.99% spam catch rate and no false positives.

Fortinet's Secure Email Gateway, FortiMail, is integrated within Fortinet's Security Fabric which enables the sharing of both global and local threat intelligence between FortiMail and other advanced security devices including FortiSandbox. This unique approach can stop both existing and previously unseen threats the very first time they reach an organization or employee, preventing the loss of sensitive and confidential information.

• The VBSpam test consisted of 187,720 emails. Of these, 94.5% were spam, with the rest comprised of legitimate emails and newsletters.
• Fortinet's FortiMail Secure Email Gateway solution received a top score of 99.5%, blocking 99.99% of spam and a false positive rate of 0.0%.
• This was the 41st time in a row that Fortinet has participated in the VBSpam test, with the FortiMail Secure Email Gateway appliance being awarded VBSpam Verified or VBSpam+ certification each time.
• Email continues to be one of the primary sources for introducing malware into a network environment, and for the loss of critical and sensitive data. Email security appliances need to provide bidirectional inspection filtering without blocking access to legitimate email communications.

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