Case Study: Major Northern European Bank achieves agile, secure cloud-based application and service delivery with Fortinet Security Fabric

Northern European Bank’s Transformation to Agile and Responsive Cloud-based Application and Service Delivery

A major Northern European bank with a century-long history needed to modernize its IT to stay competitive: replacing legacy mainframes with a cloud-based data center that could deliver on-demand resources, rapid reconfiguration, and vendor-neutral, API-driven orchestration. The bank’s priorities were microsegmentation, high performance, strong security and compliance, and a reasonable ROI while enabling faster service delivery for its growing DevOps teams.

The bank implemented the Fortinet Security Fabric—including FortiGate NGFWs (42 appliances), FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiAuthenticator—integrated with its SDN framework to enable automated orchestration, granular policy assignment, and zero-touch provisioning. The result: service launch times shrank from weeks to hours, supporting new services and revenue streams, increasing DevOps productivity, and strengthening security and compliance.