Case Study: Defensoria Pública da União achieves 99% reduction in email cyberthreats and improved SD‑WAN reliability with Fortinet

Brazilian Government Institution Mitigates Cyberthreat Attempts with Fortinet Solutions

Defensoria Pública da União (DPU) is a Brazilian government institution with 72 units nationwide and more than 4,000 employees that provides legal assistance and human-rights protection. DPU relied on a centralized MPLS link that made branches vulnerable to outages and had limited endpoint protection, facing about 520 security incidents a year and receiving roughly 120 million suspicious emails per month.

DPU deployed Fortinet solutions—FortiGate Next‑Generation Firewall with Secure SD‑WAN, FortiMail VM, FortiXDR, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer—across its environment (73 SD‑WAN locations and FortiXDR on over 6,000 devices). The integrated platform centralized monitoring and policies, stabilized branch connectivity, enabled personalized access, and reduced spam and email threats by 99%, delivering faster detection, automated response, and stronger overall security.

Defensoria Pública da União

Flávia Paz

Secretary of Information Technology