Fortinet is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It develops and sells cybersecurity solutions, such as physical firewalls, antivirus software, intrusion prevention systems and endpoint security components.
Fortinet was founded in 2000 by brothers Ken Xie and Michael Xie. The company's first and main product was FortiGate, a physical firewall. The company later added wireless access points, sandbox (computer security) and messaging security. The company went public in November 2009.
