Ali Mohamed Aljeadi, Head of IT Infrastructure and Security( CISO) at ADM
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The Abu Dhabi City
Municipality has protected its critical data and networks and reported a 72 % reduction in operating costs after implementing Fortinet’ s cybersecurity solutions.
ABU DHABI CITY MUNICIPALITY RELIES ON FORTINET TO SECURE CRITICAL DATA AND NETWORKS
ortinet, a global leader
F in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced that the Abu Dhabi City Municipality( ADM) has deployed Fortinet’ s solutions as a foundation to secure its critical networks and data across its headquarters and 45 branch locations in the city.
The ADM has selected the Fortinet Security Fabric to gain end-to-end visibility, automation and control into its network, cloud applications and IoT devices and to help protect its critical network from known and unknown attacks.
The Abu Dhabi City Municipality is an efficient municipal system ensuring sustainable development and enhancing the quality of life criteria for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Its main mission is to achieve and deliver best-inclass efficient and customer centric municipal services by engaging with the community and partners.
With ADM’ s critical network and data assets spread across its headquarters and 45 branches in the city of Abu Dhabi, most of its existing security solutions were in silos. This meant limited visibility and control over the network and devices. With an increase in IoT vulnerabilities, ransomware and enterprise application threats, it became imperative for ADM to have a single security platform to secure its network and data, which includes sensitive information on lands and proprieties ownerships, city and buildings infrastructure, but also contains PII( personally identifiable information) and intellectual property data.
“ We wanted to have a complete security strategy approach in one platform, ensuring a zero-trust model and positive security implementation. It was important for the solution to www. intelligentciso. com | Issue 06
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