Case Study: Heartland Dental achieves enhanced protection and lower total cost of ownership with Fortinet Security Fabric

Major Dental Support Organization Enjoys Enhanced Protection with a Lowered Total Cost of Ownership

Heartland Dental, the largest dental support organization in the U.S. supporting over a thousand dentists across 750+ offices, faced scaling and security challenges as its legacy firewall solution could not provide efficient device management or cross-network visibility. Rapid expansion made centralized monitoring, simplified administration, and stronger threat protection urgent priorities.

Heartland implemented a phased rollout of the Fortinet Security Fabric — including FortiGate, FortiWifi, FortiAP, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiSandbox — using pre-staging and a hub-and-spoke architecture to simplify deployment and threat containment. The result was improved cross-enterprise visibility and resiliency, streamlined management with reduced staffing, superior wireless performance, and a lower total cost of ownership while delivering stronger protection to the offices it supports.

Heartland Dental

Ross Petty

Senior Network Security Engineer