Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) -- a world leader in high-performance
network security -- today announced that Ariston Thermo Group, the
worldwide leader in thermic comfort manufacturing, has deployed
FortiGate® network security appliances to protect a network of
2,000 employees across 70 locations around the world. The
manufacturer has also implemented Fortinet's FortiMail® secure
messaging solution to protect 3,500 mailboxes from spam and other
malware targeting emails. Fortinet products were chosen primarily
for their features, performance and ease of management.
Ariston Thermo Group offers a full range of products, systems
and services that provide heating and hot water and are designed
for maximum comfort and minimum energy consumption. With 6,700
employees worldwide and total revenues of 1.25 billion euros,
Ariston Thermo Group is present in over 150 countries and annually
sells 6.4 million products that are manufactured in 19 production
sites spread across 10 countries.
Ariston Thermo Group decided to make changes to its security
infrastructure to achieve greater flexibility, performance and
centralized management. For firewall protection, the company
selected Fortinet's FortiGate-620B over competing products from
Cisco, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks because of its breadth of
integrated security functions, virtualization capabilities and
configuration flexibility. For secure messaging, Ariston Thermo
Group selected Fortinet's FortiMail-400B because of its superior
anti-spam functionality and reporting capabilities.
"The virtualization environment provided by Fortinet allowed us
to simplify the firewalling configuration. The new implementation
has made the infrastructure more manageable, more flexible, more
robust and reliable," said Laura Laici, team leader of the
Technological Competence Center at Ariston Thermo Group. "And
FortiMail provided us with a strong anti-spam service and
streamlined reporting. Fortinet's appliance also simplifies our log
search, which saves time and results in fewer calls to our help
desk."
In order to consolidate all the branch offices' Internet
accesses into one centralized access, Ariston Thermo Group has
implemented a centralized Internet architecture from its global
headquarters in Fabriano, Italy. At the network perimeter, the
implementation of a cluster of FortiGate-620B appliances in
redundant configuration provides broad network security and, thanks
to virtualization, enables the routing functionality required for
the Internet access consolidation across Europe. Ariston Thermo
also deployed FortiGate-111C devices, in order to benefit from the
same security functions -- including firewall, IPS, application
control, anti-virus and Web filtering -- in Vietnam and India local
networks.
In a second stage, for messaging security, Ariston Thermo Group
has deployed a cluster of FortiMail-400B appliances to protect
against malware coming from Web and mobile traffic. The solution
helps protect email traffic across Europe, Russia and Vietnam. It
processes 75,000 emails per day and allows for centralized Internet
access, standardization and increased reliability.
"Ariston Thermo is a long-standing customer of ours that has
taken advantage of our broad product portfolio to standardize their
network security worldwide," said Patrice Perche, senior vice
president of International Sales & Support at Fortinet. "We
help many global manufacturing organizations reduce the complexity
of securing their network by providing solutions that allow
scalable and broad protection against network-level and
content-level threats without degrading performance of critical
applications or network availability."
For more information on Fortinet's FortiGate products, please
visit: http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortigate/index.html
For more information on Fortinet's FortiMail products, please
visit: http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortimail/index.html
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About Ariston Thermo Group
(www.aristonthermo.com) Ariston Thermo is one of the world's
leading company in heating and water heating. In 2011 the Group
achieved a total turnover of EUR 1.25 billion and turned out 6.4
million products from 19 production sites in 10 countries; it has
6,700 employees and 47 companies in 30 countries, with a
distribution network covering more than 150 countries. The Group
offers a full range of products, systems and services, mostly under
the Ariston, Elco, Chaffoteaux and Racold brands. Ariston Thermo's
commitment to energy efficiency is expressed through its constant
stream of new solutions based on renewable energy sources such as
solar thermal systems and electric heat pumps as well as
improvement of the efficiency of traditional products (such as
boilers and water heaters) and investment in new projects for the
future, including micro-cogeneration systems. The underlying
objective is to offer an optimal combination of comfort, energy
savings and care for the environment.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com) Fortinet
(NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security
appliances and a market leader in unified threat management (UTM).
Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated
and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats
while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers
include enterprises, service providers and government entities
worldwide, including the majority of the 2011 Fortune Global 100.
Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated
performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to
help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's
broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended
enterprise -- from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core,
including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.
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