Case Study: Preferred Credit, Inc. prevents ransomware and preserves cyber insurance premiums with Fortinet

Fortinet Provides Simplified and Comprehensive Security to Improve a Lender’s Regulatory Compliance

Preferred Credit, Inc. (PCI) is a St. Cloud, Minnesota–based lender serving direct‑sales customers across all 50 states and Canada. Faced with rising ransomware and data‑exfiltration risks, fragmented security tools, and the need to meet diverse state lender regulations while keeping cyber insurance affordable, PCI sought better visibility and automated protection beyond traditional firewalls and signature‑based antivirus.

PCI consolidated on Fortinet’s platform—FortiGate NGFWs with Secure SD‑WAN, FortiEDR, FortiSIEM, FortiAnalyzer, FortiClient, FortiAP and FortiGuard services—simplifying web‑filtering (reducing policies from 15 to 2), enabling HA and seamless failover, and deploying co‑managed SIEM and automated EDR playbooks. The integrated solution improved threat detection and response, freed admin time, strengthened regulatory compliance, helped avoid insurance premium increases (and reduced costs), and kept the company out of the ransomware headlines.

Preferred Credit Inc.

Adam Poepping

Senior Systems Administrator