Case Study: Large Regional Hospital System achieves rapid breach protection and automated threat blocking with Fortinet's FortiDeceptor

Large Regional Hospital System - Customer Case Study

A regional hospital system in the rural Southwest U.S. faced a high-stakes cybersecurity challenge: a lean IT team had to keep critical services—including EMR systems and IoT medical devices—available for a dispersed patient population while defending against ransomware and other targeted attacks that could trigger HIPAA consequences and service outages.

The organization deployed Fortinet’s FortiDeceptor as part of a broader Fortinet Security Fabric (including FortiGate, FortiSOAR and other Fortinet products), standing up deception decoys that mimic real services and devices. FortiDeceptor was operational within 30 minutes, detected brute‑force and lateral‑movement attempts, automatically quarantined threats and pushed blocks to edge firewalls, reducing risk with minimal ongoing management and delivering fast return on investment and improved threat visibility.