You might not know it, but some of the leading work in the cybersecurity space is being done in Burnaby, B.C.

That’s because the Lower Mainland city is home to the Canadian headquarters of Fortinet, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies. While Fortinet has offices and operations in more than 150 countries and territories, its global “FortiGuard Labs” R&D campus is actually based in Burnaby. It’s perhaps a surprising fact considering the company’s massive customer base of nearly 900,000 that includes such clientele as Interpol, the World Economic Forum, NATO and MIT. In total, over 2,600 employees out of Fortinet’s 14,000-plus global workforce are spread across Canada.

But Fortinet’s Canadian ties extend to co-founder, president and chief technology officer Michael Xie’s form

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