Fortinet Earns EAL-4 Certification

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Fortinet - the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management (UTM) and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection - today announced the company's FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls and FortiOS firmware received certification for Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 Augmented (EAL 4+). This certification assures customers, in and out of the government sector, that Fortinet's FortiGate systems have gone through a long and rigorous testing process, and conform to IT security standards sanctioned by the International Standards Organization. Fortinet's FortiGate-50A, 60, 100A, 200A, 300A, 800, 3000, 3600 and 5001 Antivirus Firewalls and FortiOS 2.80 firmware received Common Criteria EAL-4+ certification.

"The Common Criteria certification of Fortinet's FortiGate technology is a significant accomplishment because Fortinet has indeed met the rigorous EAL 4+ security standard regarding trust and confidence for their Antivirus Firewalls. I can say this because our lab has independently and formally proven their claims regarding the firewall related security functionality of the FortiGate family of products, as well as their security claims about their internal development and total product support processes," stated Paul Zatychec, director of the EWA-Canada Evaluation Lab.

"I am pleased for Fortinet's customers because, in addition to their technology having a significant place in the network protection space, the company has demonstrated a strategic, long-term commitment to the quality of its product development, quality assurance and formal documentation processes," said Zatychec. "The company was very aggressive in working towards this certification, and achieved it in a comparatively short period of time. Customers who buy Fortinet's FortiGate systems can rely on the products as trusted security solutions and can be assured that the company will be there to provide full support."

The Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluations, also known as ISO standard 15408, was developed by the national security organizations of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and The Netherlands. It provides a broad range of evaluation criteria for many types of commercial and nationally-sensitive government-use IT security products. EAL-4 is the highest mutually recognized certification level.

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