Case Study: Major Midwestern Electric Power Station (large electricity provider) achieves minutes‑level incident response and 99% reduced security workload with Fortinet Security Fabric

Broad Fortinet Security Fabric Implementation Secures Electricity Provider’s Critical Infrastructure

A major Midwestern electric power station—a coal‑fired plant with a seven‑person IT team—faced constant cyber threats to its critical infrastructure, daily attacks from activism and foreign actors, and the need to protect both IT and OT environments while avoiding a costly expansion of staff. The lean team required integrated visibility, faster incident investigation, and stronger network segmentation and access controls to prevent outages or data theft.

The station implemented the Fortinet Security Fabric—including FortiGate NGFWs, FortiSwitch, FortiExtender, FortiEDR, FortiNAC, FortiAuthenticator/Token, FortiSandbox, FortiDeceptor, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, FortiManager, and FortiGuard SOC‑as‑a‑Service—to centralize logs, automate detection and response, and simplify management. Since deployment there have been no successful attacks; investigation/remediation times fell from 18–20 hours to under five minutes, security workload dropped by as much as 99%, the IT team saves 10–20 hours weekly, and the company avoided hundreds of thousands of dollars in SOC and staffing costs.