Customer Stories Global Medical Device Company Deploys FortiSASE to 7,000 Users
Fortinet News, Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
A leading medical products and technologies company, which provides solutions for managing chronic conditions in nearly 100 countries, was struggling with its security service edge (SSE) solution. The business has remote users worldwide and greatly emphasizes enabling those workers to connect to its cloud-based resources securely.
While the company had been using the same SSE solution for more than three years, providing zero-trust network access (ZTNA), secure web gateway (SWG), and firewall capabilities in the cloud, it was lacking in some key areas.
For example, the company needed its cloud security solution to provide bidirectional connectivity to push policies from its domain controller and troubleshoot remote devices. Unfortunately, its legacy SSE solution only enabled monodirectional traffic flows. As a result, some of the systems its remote workers relied on to do their jobs, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and peer-to-peer applications, required a combination of SSE and a VPN to achieve bidirectional flows. This significantly increased the cost and complexity of cloud security management for the medical device provider.