Perimeter Internetworking Named Fortinet Partner of the Year.

MILFORD, Conn. -- Perimeter Internetworking(TM), the leading provider of multi-threat managed services for community financial institutions and other businesses with high data availability and security requirements, announced it has been awarded Fortinet's 2005 Eastern Region Partner of the Year Award. Fortinet, the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and the only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection, awarded Perimeter Internetworking this honor at its annual U.S. partner conference, recently held in Lake Tahoe, NV.

"I am pleased to present Perimeter Internetworking with Fortinet's 2005 Eastern Region Partner of the Year award," said Chris Andrews, Fortinet's vice president of sales, Americas. "One of our original and most valued MSSP partners, Perimeter Internetworking has substantially grown its business with Fortinet and a great example of how MSSPs can effectively and cost-efficiently leverage the multi-threat security functionality of our FortiGate integrated security appliances to provision and deliver an array of different security services -- including antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, content filtering, antispam and more."

The goal of Fortinet's Partner Program -- known as the "FortiPartner Program" (FPP) is to build a global network of high-quality distributors and resellers committed to the same objectives as Fortinet -- providing world-class products, service and support to our customers. Fortinet's leading products and innovative partner programs provide an extraordinary opportunity for high-quality channel partners worldwide.

"Our clients have come to expect us to play an ever increasing role in their security strategies," said Richard Dobrow, COO of Perimeter Internetworking. "Fortinet's FortiGate unified threat management (UTM) systems allow us to deliver a number of services through a single appliance. Fortinet's solution combined with more than 50 managed services offered through Perimeter's Security-in-the-Cloud delivery model creates an environment in which we can offer protection for almost every security challenge our customers are facing. Being identified as a comprehensive security solutions provider has helped strongly position us in this market."

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate(TM) series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine, and 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. Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified six times over by the ICSA (server antivirus, client antivirus, firewall, IPSec, SSL, NIDS), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

About Perimeter Internetworking(TM)

Perimeter Internetworking(TM) is the leading provider of multi-threat, managed "Security in the Cloud" services to financial institutions, telecommunications/Internet service providers, healthcare providers, and other firms with high data security and regulatory requirements. Perimeter offers over 50 managed network security services On Demand, including Intrusion Defense, Malicious Code Defense, Secure Email Services, Secure Access, Automated Compliance, and Network Services. Perimeter's unique centralized architecture offers best-in-class, pre-integrated technology with complete redundancy, continuous upgrades, complemented with a 24/7 engineering staff of trained subject-matter experts. Perimeter ranked 9th on The Connecticut Technology Fast 50 in 2005 & 5th in 2004. In addition Perimeter ranked 121 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 & has been profitable for the last three years.

Headquartered in Milford, CT, with three geographically distributed technical operations centers and two redundant datacenters, Perimeter's secure network services are validated by TruSecure and guaranteed for current and future regulatory compliance. For more information about Perimeter visit www.perimeterusa.com