Case Study: Mississippi Department of Employment Security achieves secure, efficient network management with Fortinet

Mississippi Department of Employment Security avoids major security incidents for nearly a decade with Fortinet

The Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES) needed to securely protect highly sensitive citizen data while building an efficient on-premises network across nearly 40 locations that a single IT employee could manage. They also required protection for a cloud-based development environment. To meet these challenges, they turned to Fortinet for a security solution.

Fortinet implemented a solution including a high-availability pair of FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls for the on-premises network and FortiGate virtual machines for the cloud environment, supported by additional solutions like FortiAuthenticator and FortiClient. The results for MDES included zero major security incidents over nearly a decade and zero hardware failures over three years. This created a low total cost of ownership, as the Fortinet Security Fabric's simplicity allows one person to manage the entire network with no daily maintenance required.

Mississippi Department of Employment Security