Fortinet Inc. announced that Hughes Network Systems, LLC has selected Fortinet for its new distributed enterprise Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) offering. The collaboration further strengthens Fortinet's position in the MSSP space by combining the company's high performance and award winning network security functionality with Hughes' innovative WAN optimization technology. Developed specifically to meet the demanding security and application performance needs of multi-branch organizations -- from retailers, restaurants, retail petroleum and finance, to government agencies -- the technology collaboration was designed to power the recently introduced HughesON Managed Network Services from Hughes. Fortinet's advanced hardware design and custom chipset architecture makes the FortiGate platform an ideal Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) network security device for MSSPs. From a chipset perspective, the company's engineering team consistently delivers breakthrough performance for the FortiGate UTM platform. As evidenced by the latest NSS Labs tests, FortiGate firewalls lead the industry for performance and security efficacy. The Fortinet System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture represents a significant breakthrough in hardware design and performance. With it, MSSPs can provide integrated, multi-threat protection across all points of their customers' network without sacrificing performance.

Fortinet Inc. announced the company is extending its relationship with FishNet Security through a new "Preferred" Managed Security Services (MSS) offering. The offering, which is available, utilizes Fortinet's FortiAnalyzer Virtual Appliance and FortiManager Virtual Appliance to manage and provide analysis and intelligence for Fortinet FortiGate appliances within FishNet Security's expanded Customer-Premises Equipment (CPE) reseller program. For its new managed security services offering, FishNet Security intends to use Fortinet's FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer platforms to provide its managed security services customers with central management and reporting through a Web portal. The platforms also give FishNet Security the ability to remotely manage a wide variety of FortiGate devices for every business type; from SOHO/SMB through high-end enterprise. The key security features FishNet Security will be offering their customers include firewall, intrusion prevention, data loss prevention, application control, antivirus, URL filtering and secure Wi-Fi. FortiAnalyzer features logging, analysis and reporting and securely aggregates log data from Fortinet security appliances and other syslog-compatible devices. FortiManager features the ability to centrally manage any number of Fortinet devices be it a just a few or several thousand.

Fortinet Inc. reported unaudited consolidated earnings results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. For the quarter, the company's total revenue was $135,820,000 against $117,247,000 a year ago. Operating income was $15,391,000 against $18,715,000 a year ago. Income before income taxes was $16,975,000 against $19,729,000 a year ago. Net income was $12,249,000 or $0.07 diluted per share against $14,173,000 or $0.09 diluted per share a year ago. Net cash provided by operating activities was $37,673,000 against $48,518,000 a year ago. Purchases of property and equipment were $1,534,000 against $1,624,000 a year ago. Non-GAAP operating income was $24,212,000 compared to $25,483,000 a year ago. Non-GAAP net income was $17,283,000 or $0.10 diluted per share compared to $17,488,000 or $0.11 diluted per share a year ago.