Case Study: Oxford Properties Group achieves increased OT visibility and centralized control with Fortinet Security Fabric

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Oxford Properties Group, a Toronto-based global real estate investor managing over C$80 billion in assets, faced a growing challenge managing complex operational technology (OT) networks across its properties. With dozens of device types — HVAC, lighting, CCTV, building management systems and more — traditional IT discovery only identified about 20% of devices and provided limited metadata, driving high onsite technician costs and inconsistent security controls. Oxford needed a scalable, centrally managed baseline infrastructure that enabled zero-touch provisioning and stronger, repeatable risk-based controls.

Oxford deployed the Fortinet Security Fabric—centered on FortiGate NGFWs and managed through FortiManager, with FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiAnalyzer and FortiGuard services (IPS/IDS, URL filtering, application control). The solution delivered Layer‑7 visibility and device fingerprinting, remote zero‑touch provisioning, faster rollouts and a unified management pane, enabling Oxford to identify compromised devices, reduce administrative overhead and TCO, standardize site deployments, and offer clearer reference architectures to customers.

Oxford Properties Group

Tarun Patel

Product Director