Case Study: AUSL Reggio Emilia achieves unified protection across 100+ facilities and secure remote access with Fortinet

AUSL Reggio Emilia - Customer Case Study

The Local Health Authority of Reggio Emilia (AUSL), which manages five hospitals and 90 branches serving over half a million residents, needed to digitize patient records and support a growing number of networked biomedical devices. Its legacy firewalls and disparate security tools could not handle the increased bandwidth, provide granular policy enforcement, or be centrally managed across 100+ sites, and the authority required secure VPN‑SSL remote access, 24/7 monitoring, and auditable access logs.

AUSL deployed redundant FortiGate 300C appliances with FortiGuard 24/7 threat intelligence and support, rolling out features like VPN‑SSL, anti‑malware, web filtering, application control, WAN optimization, and automated vulnerability scanning from a single console. The phased implementation completed without user disruption and delivered unified protection across all facilities, eliminated throughput constraints, enabled secure remote access, and sped up breach detection and response.

AUSL Reggio Emilia

Federica Gaddi

AUSL Information and Communication Technologies Team