Case Study: City of Kimberley achieves unified, cost‑effective cybersecurity and stronger threat protection with Fortinet Security Fabric

Canadian Municipality Upgrades and Simplifies Its Cybersecurity Infrastructure with the Fortinet Security Fabric

The City of Kimberley, a small municipality in British Columbia serving roughly 8,000 residents, needed to better protect and manage sensitive citizen data as regional ransomware attacks and breaches increased. Its existing firewall and disparate security tools were expensive, inflexible, prone to downtime, and created licensing and management headaches that left the network and endpoints vulnerable.

Kimberley deployed the Fortinet Security Fabric — including FortiGate NGFW, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiEDR, FortiClient EMS, FortiAuthenticator/FortiToken, FortiDeceptor, FortiAnalyzer and video solutions — alongside FortiGuard MDR and IR services. The integrated platform delivered centralized visibility, MFA for on-site and remote users, automated endpoint detection and response, fewer management headaches and faster vendor support, resulting in a unified, cost‑effective security posture with improved threat detection, compliance and network reliability.

City of Kimberley

Dave Hlady

Manager of Information Technology