The FortiGate-1000 series of high-performance security appliances integrates all-in-one multi-threat protection into cost-effective plug-n-play security platforms that effectively block today's blended network attacks. Point-products providing security solutions for specific purposes may provide adequate protection against specific single-threaded threats, however a new breed of blended threats and attacks utilize a multitude of attack vectors. Furthermore assembling an array of point products is costly and requires significant expertise to engineer, maintain and manage. Fortunately cost-effective, evergreen multi-threat protection against the latest blended security threats including viruses, worms, phishing, spyware, spam and many other types of malware are now available in a cost-effective, yet high-performance appliance.