Case Study: Major U.S. Multinational Financial Services Institution achieves rapid, secure, scalable telework for thousands with Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN

Fortinet Provides a Secure and Scalable Teleworker Solution for Thousands of Employees at Major Financial Institution

A major U.S. multinational financial services institution urgently needed to rebuild its remote‑working capability when COVID‑19 forced offices to empty overnight. With a centralized networking model and executive concerns about poor home‑working quality, the firm required a highly secure, scalable, and fast‑to‑deploy teleworker solution that preserved application performance and offered a plug‑and‑play user experience.

Fortinet was chosen after a POC to deliver a Secure SD‑WAN built on FortiGate FortiWiFi devices, FortiAP, FortiManager (zero‑touch provisioning), FortiAnalyzer and FortiCare services. The deployment enabled self‑install and remote support, provisioned 600 sites in the first phase (with a 5,000‑device target), maintained consistent app performance and threat protection, reduced support burden, and allowed the company to deploy hundreds or thousands of devices in minutes while keeping employees productive.