Fortinet a global leader in high-performance network security, today announced that the FortiGate-1500D and FortiGate-3600C demonstrated best value for performance, with the lowest price per protected Mbps of throughput in real-world comparative analysis conducted by third party testing firm NSS Labs. Both products exceeded all benchmarks, earning a “Recommended” rating from NSS Labs.

An NSS Labs “Recommended” rating indicates that a product has exhibited strong performance and deserves serious consideration by end user customers. As an independent, third-party testing firm, NSS Labs reserves its “Recommended” rating for only the top technical products, regardless of vendor market share, size or marketing efforts.  In comparative tests against other vendors’ products, both the FortiGate-1500D and FortiGate-3600C earned these designations for stability and reliability, application control, firewall policy enforcement, identity awareness, malware evasion detection, throughput performance and TCP connections.