Fortinet names InfosecPartners as their first ever Partner of Excellence in the UK

LONDON, 30 April 2014 – Infosec Partners is recognised as a leading partner, experienced in providing the full suite of security and compliance solutions from Fortinet. The London and Hampshire based cyber security and compliance consultancy passed all of the required specific Fortinet certifications earlier this April, enabling them to become the UK's first 'Partner of Excellence' in its inaugural year.

This achievement reconfirms Infosec Partners' capability and knowledge not only of the FortiGate next-generation firewall solutions, but also the advanced technologies including:

• FortiMail Email Security & Encryption

• FortiWireless Secure Wireless and BYOD control

• FortiWeb Web application and XML firewalls

Why is Fortinet promoting this new status?

Fortinet recognises the critical nature of the products it provides. The company wants to ensure the partners accredited to deliver the wider portfolio are experienced in not only technical IT security and firewall deployments but are also industry experts in compliance and enterprise risk management. Fortinet is keen to ensure clients get the best protection from the products through trusted and accredited security professionals, helping customers achieve optimum protection from their Fortinet investment.

What does this mean to the customer?

For the customer, this means they receive the advice and guidance from skilled practitioners, such as Infosec Partners, that are fully versed in the complete life-cycle of a compliant and secured environment. The customer will find that future audits are more straightforward as the solutions will have been designed and implemented with the auditor and compliance in mind and that ultimately, risk is greatly reduced through the improved protection and visibility of true security incidents affecting the client’s specific data.

Francisco Ordillano, Commercial Director at Infosec Partners commented: “This is a fantastic achievement for everyone here at Infosec Partners, as this partnership with Fortinet allows us to offer our customers the best in network and data security that actually reduces risk and enables compliance”.

In Infosec Partners’ experience, some of the benefits enjoyed by our customers include:

• Increased security Simplified audits Costs aligned with business risk

• Better compliance Improved visibility of threats Lowest operating cost and TCO

About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) helps protect networks, users and data from continually evolving threats. As a global leader in high-performance network security, the company enables businesses and governments to consolidate and integrate stand-alone technologies without suffering performance penalties. Unlike costly, inflexible and low-performance alternatives, Fortinet solutions empower customers to embrace new technologies and business opportunities while protecting essential systems and content.

The Fortinet portfolio of products is unrivalled and Infosec Partners utilises this technology suite to provide ultimate protection and certified secure computing environments to some of the world’s largest and most sensitive businesses and also to some of the world's high profile individuals and families.

Press Contact:

Virginia Phillips

+44 (0)845 257 5903 Virginia.Phillips@InfosecPartners.co.uk