Case Study: Diversified Energy achieves cloud-scale security and major cost savings with Fortinet

Digital Transformation Focused on Enhancing Scale, Security, and Standards for Operational Excellence

Diversified Energy, an independent natural gas producer operating across multiple U.S. basins, needed a way to rapidly integrate hundreds of acquired well sites while keeping costs low and strengthening security across IT and operational technology. The company’s challenge was to scale infrastructure quickly, standardize systems and processes, and protect legacy OT devices that lack built-in security—all with a minimal total cost of ownership.

DEC implemented a cloud-first Azure architecture combined with Fortinet solutions (FortiGate VMs and Cloud, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiNAC) and private LTE connectivity to create a zero-trust, segmented environment and a single pane of management. The result: greatly improved visibility and incident isolation, displacement of MPLS/VPNs and physical hardware for significant cost savings, seamless IT/OT convergence with near–real-time analytics across ~70,000 wells, and fast, scalable onboarding of new assets with no latency issues.

Diversified Energy

David Myers

EVP & Chief Information Officer