Intelligent CISO Issue 06 | Page 53

COVER STORY The ADM is a great example of how government establishments approach cybersecurity and trust the Fortinet Security Fabric to secure their mission critical networks and data. headquarters and major branches was completed in Q2 of 2018. “We are delighted to see an almost immediate return on investment so early after implementation. Not only have we received high-end protection but have also reduced our annual OPEX by more than 72%, while increasing our latency and network capacity fourfold. We have received significant business benefits in which our annual CAPEX of ISP for MPLS has reduced from 3.5 million dirhams to less than one million dirhams,” said Aljeadi. “As we witness the convergence of IT and OT, securing tangible and intangible assets has become an important aspect of physical security. The ADM www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 06 is a great example of how government establishments approach cybersecurity and trust the Fortinet Security Fabric to secure their mission critical networks and data. We are proud to have the Abu Dhabi City Municipality as a prestigious addition to our customers in the public sector,” said Alain Penel, Regional Vice President – Middle East, Fortinet. by enabling visibility and control of network activity on a per-user basis. It has resolved a content identification challenge to prevent data leakage and stop threats with detailed, real- time traffic inspection through threat prevention, URL filtering and file and data filtering. “ADM will benefit from the Fortinet Security Fabric approach with actionable intelligence, integrated network intrusion prevention, application awareness and added firewall intelligence.” Finally, the intuitive FortiPortal web interface has reduced the learning curve for the security administration team and allowed them to efficiently manage the FortiGate appliances through a single- pane-of-glass approach. The FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls have helped ADM resolve multiple challenges such as user identification, while improving SSL performance In addition, Fortinet carried out intensive training sessions for the team, while ADM has access to Fortinet’s FortiCare services. u 53