Case Study: CB&S Bank achieves rapid branch deployments and simplified networking and security with Fortinet

Fortinet Simplifies Networking and Security for a Community Bank with a Penchant for M&A

CB&S Bank is a community bank founded in 1906 with 55 branches across Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Facing a fragmented, multi-vendor network that increased management overhead, prolonged firmware updates, and left the bank exposed to downtime and security risk—especially as it pursues frequent M&A and must rapidly bring new sites online—the IT team needed a more consistent, easy-to-manage infrastructure that would also handle challenging rural connectivity.

CB&S consolidated on a Fortinet stack—FortiGate NGFWs, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiNAC and FortiGuard services—centralizing management and visibility. The result: companywide configuration changes in minutes, firmware updates reduced from hours to about 20 minutes, branch network bring-up in roughly 30 minutes, stronger access control and threat visibility, no performance latency, and faster, more reliable M&A rollouts.

CB&S Bank

Jeremy Scott

IT Manager