Case Study: Origo achieves rapid, secure remote access and boosted productivity with Fortinet (FortiClient & FortiGate)

New VPN Teleworking Solution Brings Big Gains To Iceland’s Leading IT Services Provider During COVID-19 Lockdown

Origo, Iceland’s leading IT services provider with 450 specialists serving roughly 30% of the country’s workforce, faced a sudden surge in remote-access demand when COVID‑19 lockdowns drove daily VPN usage from about 20 to over 1,000. Their legacy VPN was unstable and help‑desk workload rose 30–40%, so the company urgently needed a fast, scalable and secure teleworking solution.

Origo rolled out FortiClient VPN with FortiGate NGFW termination and centralized deployment via FortiManager; within six days 57% (and 70% in eight days) of employees had switched, enjoying home broadband speeds up to 1 Gbps and a drop in help‑desk cases to below pre‑lockdown levels. Adding FortiToken Mobile and FortiAuthenticator provided two‑factor authentication and improved visibility, boosting remote security, employee satisfaction and IT team productivity.

Origo

Gunnlaugur Th. Einarsson

Chief Information Officer