MUMBAI: Fortinet, a provider of multi-threat security solutions, today announced that CNBC-TV18 has purchased and deployed four FortiGate enterprise security appliances to protect its bandwidth-intensive network of broadcast television and news stations and online financial news portal.

CNBC-TV18's rapid growth and expansion required the need to secure more data, applications and users on its bandwidth-intensive network, which routinely handles large amounts of video and voice traffic. This, coupled with an increase in security incidents and a greater demand for failover for online sites, prompted the media company to search for a more scalable, comprehensive and higher performance security solution.

After evaluating solutions from several vendors, CNBC-TV18 chose Fortinet's FortiGate family of multi-threat security appliances. Sify, a Fortinet solutions provider partner, helped the company deploy its new security infrastructure which comprises two FortiGate-800 enterprise-class high performance security systems at CNBC-TV18's Mumbai office and two FortiGate-400A systems at its Delhi office. The FortiGate devices are also protecting 17 other bureaus of CNBC-TV18 in India and abroad, connecting to the Mumbai and Delhi offices through either leased lines or VSAT.

"Traffic on our networks is typically very high, but we cannot afford any downtime or even slow network performance because we are in the business of delivering information in a timely manner. Fortinet has helped us considerably by eliminating spam, viruses and worms that can easily clog our networks and bring operations to a stand-still," said CNBC-TV18 senior manager systems Rajesh Sharma.

Since deploying Fortinet's FortiGate platforms, CNBC has been unaffected by a security incident, such as a virus and worm outbreak. Additionally, the MIS support team has noticed that the unified threat management systems are significantly easier to administer and manage than the point solutions they used previously.

Fortinet's market-leading FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that deliver real-time network protection through the integration of a broad range of security functions -- including firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, traffic shaping, and anti-spam. All of Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ICSA-certified, easy to manage and provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection at the network gateway and edge. The systems are kept up to date automatically through Fortinet's FortiGuard Network, which delivers continuous and automatic signature 'push' updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, intrusions and other threats around the clock, and around the world.

"Media companies have very high requirements for network uptime, performance and protection. The availability of news and information cannot be risked by a security breach. The selection of Fortinet by CNBC-TV18, one of the world's most highly acclaimed media outlets, is a significant endorsement of the capabilities of Fortinet and our FortiGate products," said Fortinet Asia Pacific vice president Hansen Chang.