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Riyadh: Fortinet a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, moved to larger office in Riyadh to better address customers’ needs and leverage the area’s diverse high-technology talent pool. The company moved from Riyadh - Business Gate C7 to the new tower in Business Gate C2. The new office space is approximately 2500 square feet, which makes it 4 times larger than the previous office and will house more than 30 employees.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the largest Middle Eastern country in this area, is now being number five from G20 countries in terms of Internet speed. In addition, Saudi Arabia is set to deploy even more emerging technologies which makes the cybersecurity a critical topic.
With its new office in KSA, Fortinet employs almost 40 Sales, Technical, and Marketing people. Fortinet also assigned a new Country Manager for Saudi, Sami Alshwairakh to lead the business operation aligned with Saudi 2030 vision. In addition, Fortinet, aims to further advance its efforts to close the cybersecurity skills gap and address the talent shortage in the country by working with academic institutions and provide them Fortinet’s NSE certification curricula to prepare students for a career in cybersecurity.
“This move reflects our commitment in the country and our continued momentum. The new office space better accommodates our team and enables us to evolve as needed to provide industry-leading solutions, support and service to our Saudi clients. We are glad to be part of this initiative by bringing our expertise in cybersecurity to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” said Alain Penel, Vice President at Fortinet in the Middle East.
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About Fortinet
Fortinet secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers our customers with complete visibility and control across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric platform can address the most critical security challenges and protect data across the entire digital infrastructure, whether in networked, application, multi-cloud or edge environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 450,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Both a technology company and a learning organization, the Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) Institute has one of the largest and broadest cybersecurity training programs in the industry. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com , the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
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