Case Study: American Manufacturer achieves CMMC compliance and faster device management with Fortinet

Manufacturer Turns to Fortinet to Achieve Security Compliance in the Demanding Defense Sector

A global manufacturer that supplies the U.S. government, major prime contractors and large vehicle-makers faced heightened exposure to criminal and nation-state threat actors and needed to prove strong cyber hygiene to meet CMMC and NIST-aligned compliance requirements. The company embarked on a network and security overhaul across its manufacturing sites to achieve segmentation, real-time logging and resilient remote access while supporting rapid pandemic-driven shifts to remote work.

The company deployed a Fortinet Security Fabric—FortiGate NGFWs with FortiGuard UTP, FortiSwitch, FortiClient, Secure SD-WAN, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM with UEBA, and FortiAuthenticator—to centralize management, logging and threat detection. Results included the ability to meet defense-sector compliance needs, dramatically reduced device-management time (switch provisioning cut from ~1 hour to 15 minutes each), improved network performance and visibility, resilient VPN access for ~1,000 remote users, and faster detection and response through centralized logging and SIEM.