Case Study: Leading Middle East Investment Group achieves 60% connectivity cost reduction and stronger security with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

Leading Middle East Investment Group Lowers Cost by 60% and Increases Security with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

A leading Middle East investment group with more than 180 sites across multiple countries migrated roughly 80–90% of its key applications to the cloud and needed fast, reliable, secure connectivity between remote locations and headquarters. Its legacy MPLS-and-central-firewall model was no longer cost-effective for cloud traffic, and the company needed stronger application control, DLP, granular URL filtering, Azure-based security, and a way to avoid expanding its attack surface while preparing for possible zero-trust access.

The group deployed Fortinet Secure SD-WAN with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer (as physical appliances and Azure VMs) and FortiGate NGFWs with SPU acceleration to combine SD-WAN and multi-layer security in one platform. The solution delivered centralized management and zero-touch provisioning, better cloud performance and resilience, full visibility for faster incident response, stronger data protection, and about a 60% reduction in annual connectivity costs.