Fortinet Selected by Warmia-Mazury

Warmia-Mazury, a popular touristic region in Poland, is looking to secure communications services for the tourists and inhabitants of the region. The company has selected Fortinet's FortiGate, FortiWiFi and FortiAP appliances for this purpose.

Warmia-Mazury opted for the deployment of one FortiGate-620B network security appliance in its main office, to help secure its wireless network infrastructure. The company also deployed 246 FortiGate-80C, 289 FortiWiFi-80C and 383 FortiAP-220A integrated wireless security appliances throughout its 640 access points.

Fortinet (News - Alert) reduces the WLAN risk with a comprehensive, integrated security solution for the wireless and wired networks. The company integrates all wired and wireless traffic into a single FortiGate security platform, giving the customers visibility and control of all network threats.

“Fortinet's wireless LAN offering has been designed to allow our customers to benefit from the same broad protection we provide for wired networks through a simplified and cost-effective management platform," said Patrice Perche, senior vice president of international sales and support at Fortinet. "We are very pleased that the Polish region of Warmia-Mazury opted for our solution, proving its key attributes in terms of performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability.”

To centrally manage its security infrastructure, Warmia-Mazury purchased Fortinet's FortiManager-3000C. To provide logging, analyzing, and reporting from security events happening in the various locations, the company opted for FortiAnalyzer-1000C. Fortinet's wireless network security solution was chosen because of its strong levels of performance, functionality and cost-effectiveness, the company stated in a press release.

To provide a single platform that combines high-performance wireless networking with broad integrated network protection, the FortiAP devices work in conjunction with Fortinet's FortiGate appliances

Recently, the company announced its initial public offering of 12,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $12.50 per share.  Of the shares in the offering, 5,781,683 shares are being offered by the company and 6,718,317 shares are being offering by selling stockholders. In addition, Fortinet has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,875,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments.



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Edited by Jennifer Russell