Cook County, Ill., to deploy Fortinet

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Fortinet has announced that the circuit court clerk's office in Cook County, Ill. - one of the nation's largest judicial circuits - has deployed its united threat management solution to protect some 5.6 million documents. Fortinet's FortiGate-1000 and FortiAnalyzer-100 also will be used to safeguard the circuit court's “integrated cashiering system,” responsible for dispersing more than $100 million in revenue to the county and its municipalities.

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