Case Study: Large U.S. Poultry Producer achieves superior security and reduced IT workload with Fortinet

Fortinet Brings Superior Security to IndustrialScale Poultry Producer

A North Carolina–based industrial poultry producer with four processing plants and extensive OT systems faced a major security wake-up after a ransomware incident began encrypting files overnight. With its network supporting critical production, quality control, and safety systems, the company needed stronger, more visible defenses and simpler management than its mixed-vendor environment provided.

The company standardized on the Fortinet Security Fabric—deploying FortiEDR to 800 endpoints and rolling out FortiGate NGFWs, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, Secure SD-WAN, FortiClient EMS, FortiSIEM, and cloud management/analytics, plus FortiGuard SOC-as-a-Service and a managed EDR partner. The integrated solution delivered clear OT/IT segmentation, 24x7 threat monitoring, and much better visibility; it also reduced central IT workload by about 60 hours/month, cut 20–30 hours/month in management time, required fewer APs, and enabled faster, decentralized network changes.