MASAN Group Chooses Fortinet to Secure Entire WAN Infrastructure
HO CHI MINH CITY, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
FortiGate's Unified Threat Management Approach to Network Security Achieves High ROI for
Manufacturer
Fortinet(R) -- the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions
today announced that MASAN Group, a large and well-diversified homegrown success story in
Vietnam, has deployed Fortinet's suite of security solutions across its WAN infrastructure
supporting the food manufacturing business. To date, all the security functions that are offered
through Fortinet's network security appliances -- including firewall, antivirus, VPN, IPS, anti-
spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping -- are being utilized to protect MASAN Group's
network.
According to Vo Anh Chuong, MASAN Group's network infrastructure manager, "Fortinet's
solution presents a cost-effective, high-performance security solution with the FortiGate's ability
to operate in intra- and inter-zones to achieve redundancy through IPSec VPN across the
company's WAN infrastructure." To further underscore the solution's value proposition, Vu
Thanh Binh, IT director of MASAN Group said, "Fortinet's UTM approach has helped us
increase work productivity by approximately 20 percent with secured gateways. This has
positively impacted the company's bottom-line through the intelligent use of technology and
allows us to track ROI in a transparent manner."
"We are pleased that Fortinet's network security gateway solution has provided MASAN
Group with a simple, secure and scalable solution. This success reinforces Fortinet's
competency and leadership in the consolidated security space and underscores UTM as sound
security solution for many enterprises worldwide," added Benjamin Teh, sales director for
Fortinet South Asia. "Fortinet is honored to be a vendor of choice for MASAN Group in Vietnam
and we look forward to continuing to scale our security operations with them as we grow
together in this region."
Products deployed by MASAN Group include Fortinet's FortiGate(R)-800, FortiGate-60B and
FortiGate-100A network security appliances. In addition, the FortiManager(TM)-400A and
FortiAnalyzer(TM)-800B were deployed to provide management and analysis functions.
FortiGate systems deliver real-time network protection through the integration of essential
security applications and services -- including firewall, antivirus, VPN, IPS, anti-spam, Web
content filtering and traffic shaping -- that can be deployed individually, or combined as a UTM
solution. All FortiGate systems are kept up-to-date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard
Network, which provides broad updates that help provide protection against the most damaging
threats commonly found in email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, vulnerability exploit
attempts and other unwanted network traffic -- around the clock and around the world.
Founded in 1996 with ten employees, Vietnam based MASAN Group has achieved
exponential growth to become one of the largest enterprises in the country with more than
fifteen subsidiaries and 2,000 employees. The Group's business segments are well-diversified
and include food manufacturing and trading as its core businesses, bringing in about USD110M
annual revenue for the company in 2007. Other business areas include investment, minerals
mining, industrial and property management, which contributes another USD40M for the group
annually. MASAN Group's food manufacturing arm is home to almost half of the Group's human
strength and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, with four large factories across South and
Central regions in the country. The division also has an additional four factories and six
warehouses in the Northern Region.
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management,
or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their
security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to
integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention,
VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network
and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions
offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions
with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around
the world and are the only security products that are certified in six programs by ICSA Labs
(Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS and Anti-Spam). Fortinet is privately held and
based in Sunnyvale, California.
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subsidiaries and affiliates, including, but not limited to, the following trademarks: Fortinet,
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Media Contact:
Georgina Tan
Fortinet, Inc.(APAC)
Tel: +65-6513-3727
Email: georginatan@fortinet.com
SOURCE: Fortinet
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