Case Study: Lael Varella (Empresas Lael Varella) achieves a unified, secure network and 60% connectivity cost reduction with Fortinet

Brazilian Business Group Optimizes Its Network and Security Infrastructure With the Fortinet Security Fabric

Empresas Lael Varella is a Brazilian holding with businesses across transportation, real estate, manufacturing, education and health. The group faced complexity in securing and managing diverse networks, ensuring stable access for large educational campuses and a major oncology hospital, and protecting sensitive data across multiple locations and data centers.

They implemented the Fortinet Security Fabric—FortiGate NGFW, Secure SD‑WAN, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer—to centralize management, automate threat blocking, and optimize WAN performance. The deployment delivered unified visibility and control, improved availability and speed for online learning and telemedicine, proactive threat detection, and an estimated connectivity cost reduction of at least 60%.