Case Study: Howard Hanna Real Estate Services achieves enhanced security and rapid, centralized management with Fortinet

Nation’s Largest Private Real Estate Firm Finds Enhanced Security and Efficient Management with Fortinet

Howard Hanna Real Estate Services is the largest family‑owned real estate broker in the U.S., with 15,000 agents, more than $37B in 2023 sales and 400+ offices (about 250 supported by corporate IT). Rapid growth, aging multi‑vendor hardware, widespread BYOD and strict multi‑state compliance requirements made security and scalable network management increasingly difficult and time‑consuming for the lean IT team.

Howard Hanna standardized on Fortinet—deploying FortiGate NGFWs with FortiGuard UTP, FortiSwitch, FortiAP/FortiWiFi, FortiManager and FortiCamera—centralizing policy and visibility. Since the rollout, the firm reports no successful cyberattacks, companywide threat responses pushed in minutes instead of days, new locations onboarded in hours rather than days, and two engineers now manage ~3,000 endpoints across 250 sites with far greater efficiency.

Howard Hanna Real Estate Services

Gary Parker

Network Engineering Manager