Case Study: De Heus achieves rapid global site launches and enhanced cloud security with Fortinet

De Heus - Customer Case Study

De Heus is a Netherlands-based, family-owned global animal feed company with more than 7,500 employees that needed to scale IT as it expanded worldwide. Rapid growth and acquisitions left a patchwork of local infrastructures and strained WAN capacity, driving up costs, slowing site rollouts, and exposing the business to security gaps and repeated cyberattacks—especially as critical applications moved to the cloud.

To address this, De Heus deployed Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN and Security Fabric (including FortiGate, FortiClient, FortiCASB/CWP, FortiAnalyzer/FortiSIEM, and FortiSandbox) to centralize management, secure cloud and endpoints, and enable fast local internet breakout. The result was faster, simpler site deployments, improved global connectivity and application performance, stronger automated threat protection and oversight, and reduced infrastructure complexity—positioning the company for continued secure growth.

De Heus

Dirk Van Gelderen

Group Security Officer