Cerberian and Fortinet Partner to Provide Advanced Internet Filtering Protection for Businesses of All Types.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2003 Cerberian Web Manager now integrated into Fortinet's FortiGate(TM) ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls Cerberian, a leading provider of next-generation Internet management solutions for businesses, homes and schools, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Fortinet, a provider of next-generation, real-time network protection systems. As a result of the agreement, Cerberian Web Manager will provide integrated Internet content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. for Fortinet's FortiGate(TM) family of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls. Cerberian Web Manager provides users of Fortinet's antivirus firewall platforms and FortiOS 2.8 firmware with improved content filtering and centralized management of Internet usage policies The guidelines and instruction given to employees concerning the use of Internet facilities such as the Web, e-mail and chat conferences. It stipulates all prohibitions such as access to pornographic sites, conducting illegal activities and sexual harassment. and Web access. Cerberian's master database of more than 5 million ratings and domains along with its Dynamic Real-Time Rating (DRTR) and Dynamic Background Rating (DBR DBR Drum-Buffer-Rope DBR Distributed Bragg Reflector dBr Decibel (reference value) DBR Deterministic Bit Rate DBR Daily Business Review DBR Dual Band Radar DBR Disclosure-Based Regulation ) technology provide extensive layers of defense to increase the security and integrity of company networks, encourage and improve employee productivity, and reduce a company's legal liability from employee surfing and downloading of inappropriate information. "Our partnership with Fortinet provides us with an opportunity to deliver Internet content management over a product line that is quickly being recognized in the industry as the leading full-featured, complete security solution, which satisfies the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises and service providers," said Matt Mosman, chief executive officer of Cerberian. "Once again, we have demonstrated that our unique model allows us to integrate our Web Manager with virtually any network hardware or services provider without taking up valuable storage space or being unnecessarily obtrusive ob·tru·sive adj. 1. Thrusting out; protruding: an obtrusive rock formation. 2. Tending to push self-assertively forward; brash: a spoiled child's obtrusive behavior. or cumbersome like most of today's filtering solutions." Cerberian Web Manager allows individuals and organizations to monitor, filter and report on Internet activities within an organization or at home. As a value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. and combined with Fortinet's advanced firewall, virtual private network, intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. and antivirus capabilities, FortiGate systems now offer best-of-breed content filtering, offering an extraordinary level of flexibility and control. "With the addition of Cerberian Web Manager, we have significantly upgraded our content-filtering offering and can now provide our customers seamless access to a 'best-of-breed,' full-featured Internet content management solution. We see significant and increasing demand for this service, and we are pleased to be partnering with Cerberian," said Richard Kagan, vice president of marketing, Fortinet. The combined solution from Fortinet, featuring Cerberian Web Manager, is available across the full FortiGate product line and provides a cost-effective solution for small-office/home-office, small- to medium-sized business, large enterprise and service provider customers. The solution can be purchased through Fortinet's value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. network and solution integrators. About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com) Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate(TM) series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time -- without degrading network performance. FortiGate systems, the only ICSA See TruSecure. quadruple-certified security products (antivirus, firewall, IPSec, NIDS See IDS. ), also deliver a full range of network-level services -- including firewall, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. and traffic shaping Using methods to keep traffic flowing smoothly in a network. Although the term is often used synonymously with "traffic engineering," traffic shaping deals with managing the network moment to moment, whereas traffic engineering refers to the overall strategies employed in a network. -- in addition to application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Fortinet, named to the "Visionaries" category in the 2003 Gartner Enterprise Firewall Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. , is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, Calif. About Cerberian Cerberian Inc. is a leading provider of next-generation Internet management solutions for businesses, government agencies, schools, libraries and homes ensuring a safer, more productive Internet experience. Offered as an outsourced service, Cerberian minimizes initial investment and ongoing management burden by maintaining the technology and file management responsibility at Cerberian global data centers. Cerberian features a database of more than 5 million categorized ratings and an advanced patent-pending technology that dynamically rates new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. content in real time to ensure the most up-to-date database of Web sites in a constantly changing Internet environment. The Cerberian Web Manager is available as an integrated, value-added service on leading firewall and network appliances, caching devices, security software solutions and service solutions. For more information about Cerberian, please visit www.cerberian.com or e-mail info@cerberian.com. Cerberian(R) and the Cerberian logo are registered trademarks of Cerberian Inc. Cerberian Web Manager(TM), Dynamic Real-Time Rating(TM), and Dynamic Background Rating(TM) are trademarks of Cerberian Inc. 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