Case Study: City of Centerville achieves near-100% uptime and stronger cybersecurity with Fortinet

Fortinet Makes Security Best Practices a Reality for a Small Ohio City

The City of Centerville, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton of about 25,000 residents, faced an aging, mixed‑vendor network with no redundancy and rising risk to critical services—most notably its 24×7 police dispatch center. IT Director Ryan Collins and city leaders sought to protect long‑term records, prevent downtime, and bring municipal cybersecurity up to best‑practice standards after nearby communities experienced attacks.

They engaged Secure Cyber Defense and deployed an integrated Fortinet Security Fabric—high‑availability FortiGate firewalls and FortiSwitches, FortiEDR endpoints, FortiManager, FortiSOAR, FortiClient with FortiToken MFA, and FortiGuard services—backed by managed SOC/XDR and automated playbooks. The city now has almost 100% uptime, fewer security incidents than neighboring municipalities, automated threat blocking, maintained network performance, and a lower total cost of ownership.

City of Centerville

Ryan Collins

IT Director