Fortinet® — the pioneer and leading
provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announced
that DJO Incorporated has deployed Fortinet FortiGate® multi-threat
security appliances to scale its growing and distributed network as the
company expects sales for 2008 to approach $1 Billion, close to doubling
the actual net sales from 2007. The Fortinet solution has been deployed at
DJO’s sales and distribution offices located in Germany, France, Denmark,
the U.K., Canada and the U.S. to help provide firewall, intrusion
prevention (IPS), antivirus, virtual private network (VPN) and Web
filtering protection. DJO Incorporated is a global provider of medical
devices that provides solutions for musculoskeletal and vascular health and
pain management.
Previously using a solution for firewall, Web filtering and antivirus
protection, DJO’s IT staff quickly realized that they needed a more robust
network security solution that would provide easy management and high
availability in case of network interruption. According to DJO, the
deficiency of the previous solution was evident each time a network change
needed to be made, which would cause the device to be rebooted resulting in
a major network interruption.
After evaluating network security vendors, DJO selected Fortinet for three
reasons: the consolidated approach to network security with multiple
functionalities contained within one system, easy-to-use graphical user
interface for managing the network and the ability to integrate with
Microsoft’s Active Directory so that access levels can be associated with
different users.
Two FortiGate-500A appliances are deployed in high availability mode at
DJO’s California headquarters and are being used to help provide firewall,
IPS, antivirus, VPN and Web filtering security. DJO’s ability to add
advanced network security functions to its initial firewall, antivirus, VPN
and Web filtering requirements is due to Fortinet’s integrated and scalable
multi-threat security solution. DJO was able to easily implement IPS
security functionality to its network without adding additional hardware
and without exceeding its security budget.
In addition, DJO’s five international offices have either a FortiGate-100A
appliance or a FortiGate-60 appliance to connect the location to corporate
headquarters, depending on the size of the office and amount of bandwidth
traversing the network. The FortiGate integrated security platform enabled
DJO to provide the same security services at their remote locations as they
do at its main headquarters.
Also located at the California headquarters are the FortiManager™-400 and
FortiAnalyzer-800 central management and analysis systems. FortiManager and
FortiAnalyzer allow the IT staff at DJO to remotely manage all FortiGate
appliances, analyze network data and create daily reports for management.
Prior to the deployment of FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, the IT staff had
to manually log in to each firewall and make individual changes and did not
have the ability to easily report on network usage.
“Since deploying Fortinet appliances, our IT staff has been spending
significantly less time managing our network security,” said John Iraci,
vice president of Enterprise Infrastructure at DJO. “We can now easily make
global and regional network changes from a central location rather than
having to log in to each device.”
DJO has quickly grown from a $200 million company to a nearly $1 Billion
business with almost 5,000 employees worldwide. Being geographically
distributed increases the challenges of managing and delivering secure
services to branch offices and mobile workers. In addition, performance
issues are common with a highly distributed network. To solve this problem,
DJO deployed Riverbed Steelhead products for WAN optimization behind the
FortiGate systems at each location. The combination of Fortinet and
Riverbed makes the DJO network a world-class secure and
application-optimized network.
“Distributed and growing networks such as DJO’s require a network security
solution that is easy to deploy, manage and analyze and, above all,
scalable and fast,” said Karl Soderlund, vice president of Americas sales
and business development for Fortinet. “These requirements fit perfectly
into the strengths of the FortiGate appliances, which use dedicated ASICs
to accelerate a hardware platform and consolidate the critical security
functions required to help protect the complete network.”
Fortinet provides ASIC-accelerated security appliances, which are used by
enterprises and service providers to enhance and consolidate their security
needs while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built
from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection –
including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, Web filtering,
spyware prevention and anti-spam — designed to help customers protect
against network and content level threats. Delivered via its flagship
FortiGate family of appliances, Fortinet provides a flexible and extensible
platform of security applications and services that enable customers to
deploy and centrally manage the same comprehensive level of protection at
remote locations as they have for headquarters and data center
environments.
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