Fortinet Joins the S&P 500 Index

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced that Standard & Poor’s has added Fortinet to the S&P 500 Index just prior to the market open on Thursday, October 11, 2018.

“We are honored to be included in the S&P 500,” said Ken Xie, founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fortinet. “This milestone is an important recognition of Fortinet’s consistent profitability and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth in every quarter since becoming public in 2009. Our broad global footprint, commitment to innovation and Security Fabric platform set us apart to solve our customers’ toughest issues and enable their digital transformation in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.” 

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About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 360,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.    

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