When H3G Austria was informed that its current anti-spam solution wasreaching end of life, it was faced with the challenge of finding a newsolution that would help ensure that Service Level Agreements (SLA) withits customers would still be met. With a typical rate of three infectedemails per second, an effective solution for catching malicious content wasessential to help ensure the high performance of the operator's Exchangeservers and maintain SLAs. In addition, with a fast growing volume of emailtraffic, H3G needed a scalable solution.

After carrying out a thorough analysis of various anti-spam solutions, thecompany decided to place Fortinet's FortiMail multi-layered email securityplatform in an extensive test scenario. H3G tested the capacity ofFortinet's security platform to deal with a large amount of emailscontaining complex malware to mirror the increased sophistication ofInternet threats. After four months of testing by H3G, FortiMail met allH3G Austria requirements, catching around 99% of spam and viruses accordingto H3G's tests.

"Not only is the volume of email traffic rising but with it, the complexityof malware with the presence of blended threats combining spam, viruses,worms and spyware. To help ensure optimum service and security for ourcustomers, we needed an effective multi-layered solution that combinedantivirus, anti-spam and anti-spyware technologies in one appliance," saidGünther Fischer, head of Product and Service Enabler for the IT & Networksbusiness unit at H3G Austria. "FortiMail met our performance requirementswhile providing ease-of-use and management to our IT team which isessential as we do not have the time or resources to deploy and maintainseparate point solutions."

In addition to providing high levels of security performance andmanageability, FortiMail was the only solution on the market that offered aper-system licensing model. This was a decisive factor for H3G Austria,which provides all its new customers with an email account and enjoys afast-growing number of mobile subscribers.

H3G Austria has deployed two FortiMail-2000A appliances in highavailability mode for antivirus and anti-spam protection as well as MMSscanning. The FortiMail appliance acts as a gateway in front of theoperator's Exchange server, stopping spam and viruses before they enter thenetwork. FortiMail-2000A is a multi-layered email security platform thatremoves unwanted spam and provides maximum protection for blendedemail-related threats. FortiMail enables enterprises to increaseproductivity by reducing unwanted spam messages and facilitates regulatorycompliance through advanced email content archiving and routing.

"The increased adoption of email and multimedia services represent a bigopportunity for cybercriminals, creating new security challenges for mobileoperators," said Patrice Perche, Fortinet's EMEA vice president. "In a verycompetitive market, telcos must address those risks while controlling theircosts. The high performance, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of ourFortiMail appliance make it a perfect solution for mobile operators. WithH3G Austria, we are pleased to increase our footprint in one of the world'slargest telco carriers."

Fortinet offers FortiMail updates through the FortiGuard Antispam andAntivirus Subscription Services, which leverage Fortinet's reputationdatabase and signatures to identify and block spam, phishing attempts,viruses, spyware and other email-borne threats and deliver automaticreal-time updates to FortiMail appliances located around the world.

About Hutchison 3G Austria (www.drei.at)

Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH started in May 2003 with the brand 3 as the firstsole mobile multimedia provider in Austria. 3 offers multimedia productssuch as video calling, music videos and mobile television on theUMTS-handset and in addition provides the classic ways of communication(voice calling, SMS and MMS). At the beginning of September 2008, P3Solutions, an impartial telecommunications consulting company, tested themobile networks in Austria and certified Hutchison 3G Austria the largestUMTS network and excellent voice quality in the 3G network in Austria. 3disposes of 40 mobile TV and radio channels which are available for free(excl. erotic channels). In 2007, 3 has started HD mobile TV as the firstmobile network provider in the world on special handsets as a new standardfor better picture quality. Besides, 3 has enriched its offer with the"X-Series" in May 2007: Popular internet services such as Skype, WindowsLive Messenger, Google, eBay, Yahoo! Go, Sling and Orb are available onselected 3mobile phones. Thus, 3 presented the 3 Skypephone together withSkype at the end of October 2007. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona2008, the 3 Skypephone received a Global Mobile Award in the category "BestMobile Phone." Moreover, 3 has been the first mobile network operator whooffered DVB-H devices already in May 2008 commercially. Additionally to theexisting mobile TV portfolio via UMTS streaming 20 more and mainly newchannels (15 mobile TV, 5 radio channels) are available over DVB-H. In theShowTime XL tariff DVB-H is included for free a 3life long. Hutchison 3GAustria GmbH counts more than 577,000 customers (as per August 2008), 19million customers worldwide and is wholly owned by Hutchison WhampoaLimited in Hong Kong.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unifiedthreat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprisesand service providers to increase their security while reducing totaloperating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up tointegrate multiple levels of security protection -- including firewall,antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam --designed to help customers protect against network and content levelthreats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutionsoffer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office tochassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinetsolutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the onlysecurity 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 Sunnyvale, California.

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