Case Study: Cloud hosting and services company stops massive ransomware attack and secures enterprise infrastructure with Fortinet

It Solutions Provider Stops Massive Ransomware Attack with Next-Generation Firewall

The company, a fast‑growing cloud hosting and services provider that also offers VOIP, ran a large environment of 30,000 mailboxes, 50,000 websites, 5,000 virtual machines and 300 physical servers across two data centers. It suffered a massive CryptoLocker ransomware breach that blocked 4,000 access points, locked out more than 14,000 users for days, generated about 20,000 support calls in 48 hours and caused over $3 million in damage.

An employee-provided FortiGate appliance proved effective immediately, and the firm purchased a FortiGate 1500D with FortiAnalyzer and later added FortiManager, FortiADC and FortiDDoS. The new stack—deployed in about 30 minutes with no re‑architecture—provided intrusion protection, antivirus, geo‑location blocking, multi‑factor authentication and analytics, which stopped the attack, pinpointed its origin, restored control and delivered scalable, enterprise‑wide protection.