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John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions, Fortinet
"The combination of high-value patient data, an unparalleled attack surface and vulnerable technical architecture makes healthcare the preferred target for cybercriminals. Only Fortinet delivers a seamless, end-to-end platform with internal segmentation and intelligent security built to address the most advanced threats plaguing healthcare. Healthcare organizations look to Fortinet to protect against cyber threats inside and outside the network, while providing high-performance and secure access to the borderless healthcare ecosystem."

News Summary
Fortinet® (FTNT), a global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions will demonstrate its leadership in the healthcare industry and will be exhibiting in Booth 438 at HIMSS16 on February 29 - March 4 in Las Vegas.

Fortinet Delivers End-to-End Security Without Compromising Patient Care for Leading Organizations
Criminal attacks in healthcare are up 125 percent since 2010 and are now the leading cause of data breach.ⁱ Healthcare organizations are under pressure to address the rapidly changing cyber threat environment and lack the resources and processes to protect patient data. And the current wave of advanced threats are getting increasingly better at slipping past perimeter security to reach the unprotected internal network. It's apparent that these medical organizations need multiple layers of security, including internal segmentation to manage and mitigate these rising threats. While edge firewalls do an excellent job of protecting the network border, internal segmentation helps protects critical patient data and limits damage if a breach occurs.

Healthcare organizations of all sizes, with a variety of security needs, are implementing Fortinet solutions to keep business and patient information safe.

• Barnabas Health

• Riverside Healthcare

• UTHealth School of Public Health

Fortinet Demonstrates Latest Security Solutions for Next-Gen Healthcare at HIMSS16
Fortinet's broad portfolio of solutions for healthcare can seamlessly extend network security to protect sensitive data and resources, comply with regulations and standards such as HIPAA and PCI, and enable secure care delivery. Fortinet internal segmentation firewalls (ISFWs) are specially adapted for the performance needs inside a healthcare network, providing intelligent segmentation and multiple layers of security. With ISFWs, healthcare customers can segment key assets, such as medical devices and clinical databases, to dramatically improve visibility into possible attacks.

Fortinet will demonstrate its latest network security technology and solutions including next-generation distributed healthcare, intelligent network segmentation, advanced threat protection and advanced cybersecurity for software defined data centers at HIMSS. Additionally, Fortinet will participate in a variety of speaking sessions alongside its customers, including:

• Straight-Talk on Securing Your Data: Real-World Healthcare IT Experiences

• Cybersecurity: Vulnerabilities, Attacks and Mitigating Against Threats

The 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition will take place at the Venetian-Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas from Monday, February 29 through Friday, March 4, 2016. For more information, visit http://www.himssconference.org/.

About Fortinet
Fortinet (FTNT) protects the most valuable assets of some of the largest enterprise, service provider and government organizations across the globe. The company's fast, secure and global cyber security solutions provide broad, high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT infrastructure. They are strengthened by the industry's highest level of threat research, intelligence and analytics. Unlike pure-play network security providers, Fortinet can solve organizations' most important security challenges, whether in networked, application or mobile environments -- be it virtualized/cloud or physical. More than 200,000 customers worldwide, including some of the largest and most complex organizations, trust Fortinet to protect their brands. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog or FortiGuard Labs.

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ⁱ Ponemon Institute, Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data -- May 2015