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Orascom Telecom Blocks Spam with Fortinet

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FortiMail Email Security Platform Offers Unique Configuration Options and Superior Accuracy Rates

MIDDLE EAST - June 30, 2009: Fortinet® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions- today announced that Orascom Telecom HoldingOrascom Telecom HoldingLoading... S.A.E. ("OTHOTHLoading..."), a leading player in the international telecommunications market, has deployed Fortinet's FortiMail™ multi-layered email security platform to protect its corporate email servers and 250 users against spam and viruses. OTHOTHLoading... chose the FortiMail appliance for its superior accuracy rates and unique configuration options including high availability (HA), shared quarantine and transparent mode.

With more than 80 million subscribers as of March 31st, 2009, OTHOTHLoading... is among the largest and most diversified network operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. At OTHOTHLoading..., all the information exchanged between the corporate headquarters and OTHOTHLoading... subsidiaries and vendors is communicated by email. Email is therefore a mission-critical business application on which all corporate employees and executives rely. Unfortunately, the previous third-party security software installed on the Exchange servers could not cope with the high amount of spam received everyday and soon turned out to be ineffective both in terms of robustness and accuracy.

After a comparative evaluation of the main email security solutions available on the market, OTHOTHLoading... opted for Fortinet's FortiMail platform for the following reasons: it scored the highest accuracy rate (99.8%); it offered high availability (HA) configuration and shared quarantine for maximum up-time; and it could operate in a transparent mode, limiting the impact on OTHOTHLoading...'s other network security settings.

"Ninety percent of the 1.5 million daily emails received in our headquarters is spam. It was therefore critical for us to implement an enterprise-class security solution to maintain efficient business communications," said Mina Samir, IT security manager at OTHOTHLoading.... "Since we moved to FortiMail, our management and employees have appreciated the huge decrease in the quantity of spam e-mails they receive. From an IT perspective, FortiMail is definitely an enterprise-class email security solution, which provides us with a superior level of protection, reliability, management and reporting."

OTHOTHLoading... deployed a cluster of FortiMail-2000A email security systems to filter the entire inbound email traffic going through OTHOTHLoading...'s corporate servers with minimal downtime. OTHOTHLoading... also subscribed to the FortiGuard® Antispam and Antivirus Services powered by Fortinet's 24x7 Global Threat Research Team to get automatic and continuous signature updates and ensure its FortiMail platforms are kept up to date to help protect against the latest spam, viruses and spyware.

In addition, OTHOTHLoading... uses FortiMail's detailed logging and customized reporting functionalities to get granular information on all malicious emails received, blocked and quarantined. This information is very useful to OTHOTHLoading...'s IT department, which runs daily reports to get antivirus and antispam event logging, for analyzing the caught spam and learning about the technique they use.

"Spam has an increasingly negative effect on business by impacting corporate resources and reducing employee productivity," said Patrice Perche, Fortinet's EMEA Vice President. "In a highly competitive environment such as the telco market, communication efficiency is key. We're very pleased to see that, thanks to the high performance, reliability and flexibility of our FortiMail platform, OTHOTHLoading... employees are now virtually spam-free and can concentrate on business again."

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About Orascom Telecom HoldingOrascom Telecom HoldingLoading... (www.orascomtelecom.com)
Orascom Telecom is a leading international telecommunications company operating GSM networks in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, having a total population under license of approximately 498 million with an average mobile telephony penetration of approximately 48% as of March 31st , 2009. Orascom Telecom operates GSM networks in Algeria ("OTA"), Pakistan ("Mobilink"), Egypt ("Mobinil"), Tunisia ("Tunisiana"), Bangladesh ("banglalink"), and North Korea ("Koryolink"). OTHOTHLoading... has an indirect equity ownership in Globalive Wireless which has been granted a spectrum license in Canada. Through its subsidiary Telecel Globe, OTHOTHLoading... also operates in Burundi, the Central African Republic, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Orascom Telecom had over 80 million subscribers as of March 31st , 2009.

Orascom Telecom is traded on the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange under the symbol (ORTE.CA, ORAT EY), and on the London Stock Exchange its GDR is traded under the symbol (ORTEq.L, OTLD LI). For more information visit www.orascomtelecom.com.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified in six programs by ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, Network IPS, and Antispam. Fortinet is privately held and based in Sun nyvale, California.

Copyright © 2009 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, FortiReporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, FortiResponse, FortiDB, FortiWeb and FortiCarrier. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements herein attributed to third parties.

© Press Release 2009

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