Intelligent CISO Issue 06 | Page 52

COVER STORY provide threat detection, prevention and response capabilities. It had to allow for internal segmentation, complete end-to-end visibility and superior protection from advanced threats,” said Ali Mohamed Aljeadi, Head of IT Infrastructure and Security (CISO), at Abu Dhabi City Municipality. After evaluating several solutions from vendors such as Cisco and Palo Alto Networks, ADM selected the Fortinet FortiGate range of next-generation firewalls as it met its stringent selection criteria while providing a single-pane- of-glass management and reporting system, flexible features and integration capabilities with third party vendors via the Fortinet Security Fabric’s open architecture, high performance and 52 unmatched third party validation. The fact that Fortinet offered local technical assistance centre (TAC) support also had a significant impact on ADM’s decision. “Fortinet has provided us with a suite of solutions and a single-pane-of-glass approach for monitoring, managing and reporting. The solution is easy to manage, allowing the security administration staff to focus on critical tasks, therefore reducing time to identify and mitigate threats. We also need fewer resources to manage the appliances,” added Aljeadi. A combination of Fortinet’s solutions have been deployed including FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (three high-end FortiGate 3200D, 24 FortiGate 300D, 45 FortiGate 81E, four FortiGate 30E), FortiSandbox 3000E and FortiAnalyzer 1000E, across ADM’s headquarters and 45 branches within Abu Dhabi City to secure close to 9,000 users. FortiGate Next-Gen Firewalls provide ADM with Intrusion Prevention Systems, VPNs, URL Filtering, Web Antivirus, Anti- Spam, Anti-X, Antivirus and Sandboxing. ADM has also subscribed to Fortinet’s services, while utilising the FortiAnalyzer to generate periodic reports for both c-level executives and the security team. The implementation took place in two phases with the data centre and ATP being completed in Q1 of 2018, while the SD-WAN implementation for the Issue 06 | www.intelligentciso.com