Business Impact
Challenge
- Protect IT and OT networks as the company undergoes digital transformation and faces increasing cyber threats
- Meet increasing regulatory compliance burden
- Enable lean networking and security team to monitor and control the growing network
Solution
- Integrate existing and new networking and network security technologies under centralized management
- Deploy high-availability network security architecture for perimeter security and segmented virtual LANs
- Engage FortiGuard Services to provide 24x7 security operations and managed detection and response
Results
- Increased overall visibility and control of the entire networking and security infrastructure
- Simplified operations and NIS2 compliance through convergence, automation, and managed services
- Strengthened overall security posture and accelerated detection and response capabilities
- Enhanced customer experience and trust through increased network security, performance, and resilience
概要
A nonprofit regional electricity supplier in northern Portugal, Cooperativa Eléctrica do Vale D’Este (CEVE) committed to delivering “smart grid” services throughout its region. To support these services in a challenging regulatory and political environment, CEVE needed to overhaul its networking and security infrastructure.
Integrating its networking and security technologies under the Fortinet Security Fabric umbrella and leveraging FortiGuard Managed Security Services, CEVE is able to consistently meet its obligations to customers and regulators with a lean IT team. The team even has time to optimize security operations and plan for migration to the cloud.
“Replacing the entire network and security infrastructure for an operational data center such as ours without disrupting critical services is not a trivial task, but with the help of Fortinet and our local partner, we completed the whole deployment in three months without a single incident. This has given us great confidence in our relationship with Fortinet and the technology, vision, and expertise they bring to the table.”- CEVE、IT Manager/CISO、Joel Queirós