Case Study: Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) achieves 43% lower security management costs and immediate threat response with Fortinet Security Fabric

Enterprise-class Security That Municipalities Can Afford

The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) represents hundreds of cities, towns and villages across Alberta and provides services such as insurance and employee benefits. After a vulnerability assessment, AUMA found its IT estate fragmented across three vendors, leaving poor visibility into security events, compliance risks around sensitive data, slow incident detection and high management overhead — prompting a needed firewall and infrastructure overhaul.

AUMA consolidated to the Fortinet Security Fabric (FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP) and added FortiSIEM and FortiEDR, managed by MSP Stratejm. The integrated solution delivered near‑immediate automated threat response (hours vs. months), cut security management costs by 43%, eliminated redundant hardware and enabled AUMA to launch a new managed-security service for members that generated five-figure revenue in its first year and is easily scalable.

Alberta Urban Municipalities Association

Shaun Guthrie

Senior Director