Case Study: Major Home Goods Retailer achieves improved network protection and performance with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN & SD-Branch

Major Home Goods Retailer Deploys Fortinet Secure SD-WAN & SD-Branch To Improve Network Protection and Performance

A major Asian home goods retailer with over 800 employees and a distributed estate of stores, POS systems, Wi‑Fi and servers storing consumer financial data needed to modernize its network to better protect sensitive information and ensure a consistent in‑store experience. The retailer faced rising cyberthreats and a growing attack surface from distributed sites and supply‑chain partners, making it difficult to meet both security and performance requirements.

The company deployed Fortinet Secure SD‑WAN and Secure SD‑Branch—built on FortiGate NGFWs and integrated FortiExtender, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer within the Fortinet Security Fabric—to provide edge inspection, encrypted‑traffic identification, dynamic multi‑path steering and sub‑second failover across MPLS, broadband and LTE/5G. The result was prioritized, lower‑latency POS and application performance, centralized visibility and management, faster zero‑touch deployments, reduced administrative overhead, improved employee experience and stronger, more scalable network security.