Global Crossing Selects Fortinet for CPE-Based Managed Security Services Offering
06 Junho 2011 - 10:00AM
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Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) -- a leading network security provider and
the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions
-- today announced that Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC), a leading
global IP solutions provider, has selected Fortinet's UTM appliance
for its new managed services offering, Global Crossing Security
Solutions. As part of the offering, Global Crossing is using
FortiGate®-80C, FortiGate-200B, FortiGate-620B, FortiGate-1240B and
FortiGate-3950B appliances to help provide firewall, application
control, intrusion prevention service, web content filtering
protection, and antivirus and anti-spam capabilities.
Global Crossing is a leading global IP and Ethernet solutions
provider with the world's first integrated global IP-based network.
Offering a full range of data, voice and collaboration services,
Global Crossing delivers converged IP services in more than 70
countries around the world.
The Global Crossing Security Solutions offer is targeted at
Global Crossing's enterprise customers who prefer to local network
security appliances at their premises, yet do not want to manage
the appliance. Global Crossing's Security Operations Center will
provide incident handling, event correlation and remediation of
threats for customers using Global Crossing Security Solutions.
"Working with Fortinet, Global Crossing is giving customers a
highly comprehensive and capable information security solution that
alleviates the burden of managing and enforcing business and
information security policies in the network," said David Siegel,
vice president of IP/Data Services Product Management at Global
Crossing. "In our efforts to deploy leading technology for all
solutions in our managed portfolio, we are pleased to have Fortinet
play a key role in the superior technical underpinning of the
Global Crossing Security Solutions offer."
Dimension Data, a Fortinet strategic partner and a $4.7 billion
global IT solutions and services provider, will support Global
Crossing's team to deliver a world class service to their
customers.
"We are thrilled to be the network security standard for Global
Crossing's new managed security offering," said Matt Pley, Vice
President of carrier sales at Fortinet. "The combination of Global
Crossing, Dimension Data and Fortinet is a powerful one that will
offer end users the ability to have easy-to-use enterprise level
network security protection with the benefit of remote
management."
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com) Fortinet
(NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security
appliances and the market leader in unified threat management
(UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad,
integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security
threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our
customers include enterprises, service providers and government
entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune
Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers
ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of
security designed to help protect against application and network
threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help
secure the extended enterprise -- from endpoints, to the perimeter
and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the
world.
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affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to,
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