Case Study: Home City Ice achieves a decade of zero major incidents and streamlined security with Fortinet Security Fabric

Ice Manufacturer Consolidates onto the Fortinet Security Fabric to Freeze out Attackers

Home City Ice, a Bridgetown, Ohio–based ice manufacturer with about 80 plants and 75 satellite distribution terminals, faced growing security risks as it expanded through acquisitions. Legacy firewalls were reaching end-of-life and the company needed reliable failover, perimeter and IoT protection, centralized policy management, and a security posture a small IT team could manage without disrupting operations or customer data.

Home City Ice consolidated onto the Fortinet Security Fabric—standardizing on FortiGate NGFWs with FortiGuard UTP and adding FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAP, FortiNAC, FortiEDR (with MDR), FortiSandbox, FortiSIEM, FortiWeb and Secure SD-WAN—deploying HA pairs in data centers and edge protection at remote sites. The integrated, centrally managed solution automated threat response, enforced MFA and endpoint controls, and delivered measurable results: zero major incidents in more than a decade, penetration tests that couldn’t breach the network, reduced staffing needs and lower total cost of ownership.

Home City Ice

Stuart Carlisle

Network Architect