Only Security Vendor to Hold an Unprecedented Eight ICSA Certifications
【2006年2月22日，SUNNYVALE 訊】Fortinet – the pioneer and market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection – today announced that its FortiClient? Host Security software has achieved ICSA Anti-Spyware certification. This highly-regarded certification validates the effectiveness of Fortinet’s unified threat management (UTM) endpoint security solution for protecting against insidious and malicious spyware, and also brings Fortinet’s ICSA certification portfolio to eight certifications – more than any other security vendor in the industry.
Among the most prevalent types of cyber attacks, spyware is an application that is often secretly installed on a user's computer to track and/or report information back to an external source without the user's permission or knowledge. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission recognizes spyware as a prevalent form of on-line identity theft, which in total is estimated to have cost businesses and consumers approximately $50 billion in 2004. Spyware is such a major contributor to on-line identity theft that the U.S. Congress recently passed the I-Spy and Spy acts which make it a crime to use spyware for identity theft purposes.
ICSA Labs Certified Spyware Protection
Fortinet’s FortiClient software received ICSA Labs’ Anti-Spyware certification based on its ability to effectively protect systems from spyware in real-world situations, such as cyber criminal attempts to steal personal information. The certification test suite used by ICSA Labs included traditional spyware, keyloggers, password stealers, dialers, rootkits and adware.
To achieve certification, products such as FortiClient were tested to ensure their ability to meet requirements for administrative and logging features and defend systems through real-time protection – detecting an attempt by the system to either download or install spyware objects. Additionally, products also were required to detect spyware objects placed on the system before the anti-spyware product was installed, and demonstrate the capability to neutralize the spyware threat so a system is operable and can connect to the Internet without the spyware processes restarting or reinstalling.
“Fortinet’s strong commitment to independent certification further ensures that our customers receive validated, best of breed security functionality. The addition of this ICSA anti-spyware certification for our FortiClient endpoint security software expands our comprehensive portfolio of certified security solutions that help combat all types of cyber threats to businesses, including identity theft caused by spyware,” said Freddy Mangum, Fortinet’s vice president of product management, Emerging Technologies. “A critical component of Fortinet’s multi-layered security strategy, FortiClient provides customers with premier anti-spyware protection as part of a cost-effective and complete unified threat management endpoint security solution.
Fortinet is the only security vendor to date to receive a unique and in-demand set of security certifications – an unmatched eight ICSA certifications, including five distinct security applications on its FortiGate integrated security appliances (firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware, intrusion detection/prevention, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN), and three desktop antivirus certifications for FortiClient (virus cleaning and detection and anti-spyware); VB 100% for FortiClient, and NSS certification for its intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology.
For more information about ICSA Labs’ anti-spyware certification and criteria, please visit: https://www.icsalabs.com
About FortiClient Host Security Software
Fortinet's FortiClient is an easy-to-use, unified threat management host-based security software agent that addresses the need for comprehensive endpoint protection for telecommuters, mobile workers, remote sites and partners. FortiClient is the industry’s first software solution to combine web content filtering, antivirus, anti-spyware, personal firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS) and an IPSec VPN client for complete threat protection.
FortiClient leverages Fortinet's FortiGuard Antivirus (with spyware protection), Intrusion Prevention (IPS), and Web Content Filtering subscription services to provide customers with the most up-to-date and comprehensive security on the market. FortiClient supports the most predominant Microsoft Windows operating systems and can be easily managed by Fortinet’s FortiManager system to provide security and network practitioners with a centralized means of managing and administering security to their multiple network end points.
For more information about FortiClient Host Security software, please visit: http://www.fortinet.com/products/forticlient.html
關於 Fortinet (www.fortinet.com.tw)
Fortinet 是整合式威脅管理 (UTM；Unified Threat Management) 安全設備市場的領導廠商。履履獲獎的 FortiGate™ 系列產品，為 ASIC 硬體加速式多重威脅防護安全設備，曾獲 Network Computing Magazine 2004 年度資安產品獎，以及 2003 年網路產業年度防火牆產品獎等，為新世代的即時網路防護系統。FortiGate™ 可偵測透過網路傳輸，來自電子郵件或是網站的危險資料威脅，像是病毒、蠕蟲、網路入侵及不適當的網站內容等，而且不會影響網路效能。FortiGate™ 系列產品是業界唯一通過六種 ICSA 認證 (伺服器防毒、客戶端防毒、防火牆、IPSec、SSL、NIDS) 的資訊安全設備，以整合式且易於管控的平台，提供全方位的網路層與應用層服務。Fortinet 名列 Light Reading 雜誌前 10 大私有公司，以及 Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 前 50 大快速成長公司第 4 名，企業總部位於加州 Sunnyvale。
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