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eIQnetworks Announces More than 1,500 Licenses Shipped of OEM Fortinet’s FortiReporter

Milestone Achieved as Fortinet Reaches Two Year Mark in OEM Agreement with eIQnetworks

ACTON, MA and SUNNYVALE, CA – October 10, 2006 – eIQnetworks™, Inc., a global leader in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market, today announced that Fortinet, the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security systems, has shipped more than 1,500 licenses of FortiReporter, a co-branded version of eIQ Network Security Analyzer. This milestone is the result of a strategic OEM relationship that was established between eIQ and Fortinet more than two years ago to enable Fortinet customers to meet their IT security and compliance management requirements.

“Customers value a centralized, heterogeneous security event management solution to control day-to-day IT security operations,” said Chris Roeckl, vice president of corporate marketing for Fortinet. “With FortiReporter, Fortinet is able to offer customers a software-based option for gaining useful intelligence of their network security environment through the collection, monitoring and reporting of security events from their Fortinet FortiGate™ multi-threat security appliances and other solutions.”

Available now, the latest version of FortiReporter, version 4.6, delivers a 100 percent performance increase over the previous version, as well as feature and usability enhancements that include:

  • Comprehensive SIEM Capabilities: Delivers multi-vendor centralized log management, real-time event monitoring, correlated alerting, reporting, and forensics, all in a single solution.

  • Measurable ROI on Security Investments: Provides a mechanism to measure the ROI of security infrastructure investments.

  • Simplicity: Easy setup and configuration enables users to install and begin using in under an hour. Pay as you go model allows for easy expansion without large upfront capital commitment.

  • Scalability: Multi-tiered architecture scales to meet largest enterprise needs.

  • Oracle and MS-SQL Support: Includes IT security and compliance management for leading business database applications.

For more information on FortiReporter and other Fortinet solutions, visit www.fortinet.com.

About Fortinet
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat 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, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended 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 eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

About eIQnetworks
eIQnetworks, Inc., a global leader in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market, provides results-driven solutions to help enterprise, government and MSSP customers improve security operations while reducing costs. With over 1,800 organizations relying on the power of eIQ to centrally manage information risk and protect IT assets, security professionals worldwide are able to take proactive steps to minimize security breaches and meet compliance mandates. eIQ customers include Avaya, BT, Casio, Citibank, Celgene, Fujitsu, Hess, KPMG, Sprint, Malaysia Telecom, Singapore Telecom, Nuspire, Rackspace, US Army and US Navy. eIQ products are sold worldwide through strategic OEM partners Astaro, Fortinet, Intoto, IPolicy Networks, Mirapoint, NEC, NetContinuum, Secure Computing, Top Layer Networks, and a global network of distributors and resellers. For additional information, please visit www.eIQnetworks.com or call +1 877 564 7787.

eIQ Press Contact:
Mariah Torpey
Davies Murphy Group, Inc.
781-418-2404
eIQ@daviesmurphy.com

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