Case Study: Leading IT Solutions Provider stops mass inbound attacks and secures non-production environments with Fortinet's FortiDeceptor

IT Solutions Provider Chooses FortiDeceptor to Detect and Block In-Network Attacks

An IT systems integrator and technology reseller based in the northeastern United States that hosts many customer websites faced huge volumes of inbound traffic—including malicious scans and attacks—that generated tens of thousands of security incidents per day. The company needed a way to prevent those attacks from consuming firewall resources, protect undersecured test and nonproduction environments, and improve detection of emerging vulnerabilities without disrupting business operations.

The team deployed FortiDeceptor decoys as part of its Fortinet Security Fabric, placing deception assets in the DMZ and other segments and integrating alerts with firewall management to automatically block malicious IPs at the perimeter. Deployment was fast and nonintrusive, with passive discovery and an up‑to‑date decoy library to cover zero‑day threats (e.g., Log4j2). Within weeks the company saw incidents fall from tens of thousands daily to only a few alerts per day, reduced false positives to zero, and extended the approach to customers.