Case Study: Major European Bank achieves enhanced security, efficiency and cloud-ready micro-segmentation with Fortinet FortiGate

Major European Bank Reengineers itself to Enhance Quality, Efficiency and Security

A major European bank’s infrastructure team—responsible for developing and deploying the group’s application portfolio—faced a large-scale migration from legacy data centers to a cloud-centric environment. The challenge was to overhaul IT infrastructure and dramatically improve security, quality and efficiency of service delivery while maintaining continuous application availability.

The bank implemented Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) with the Fortinet FortiGate Connector and FortiGate 3000D firewalls, integrated via APIC across two datacenters. This delivered automated, attribute-driven micro-segmentation, stateful traffic inspection, reusable security-policy libraries and service chaining, resulting in a substantially stronger security posture, faster and higher-quality deployments, greater workload visibility, improved performance and uninterrupted operations.