Fortinet Launches New Regional Solution Centre In Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 (Bernama) -- Fortinet, a world leader in high performance network security, on Wednesday launched its new regional solution centre in Kuala Lumpur. The company has also launched its security consulting services for enterprises in the region to help meet the demand for such services. In a statement here Wednesday, Fortinet said the service would be backed by a team of highly skilled networking and security professionals, manning state-of-the-art testing and simulation facilities at the solution centre. The security consulting services was the first service offered by a network security vendor in the region, it said. Among the services offered are security assessment, vulnerability assessment, wireless security status verification, and firewall policy and configuration assessment. Fortinet Vice President of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, George Chang said, "The new services are an extension of Fortinet's efforts in providing advanced threat response platforms to enterprises over the years. "That's exactly what we are putting in place with our solution centre and our threat intelligence partnerships, which are built on top of our global research and development (R&D) capabilities. "Through this portfolio of new services, which will be expanded over time, we want to raise the bar in the network security industry and properly help enterprises reap the business benefits of good security practices." CyberSecurity Malaysia, the national cyber security specialist agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, is an early Fortinet partner for this initiative. Fortinet said it planned to forge more alliances with the various local cyber security authorities in the region in the coming months. --BERNAMA