Case Study: Riverside Healthcare achieves unified, centrally managed, high-performance security across 17 facilities with Fortinet

Riverside Healthcare - Customer Case Study

Riverside Healthcare is a fully integrated Illinois health system serving multiple counties with a 312‑bed hospital, community clinics, senior living, fitness and support services. Faced with rising ransomware and data‑theft threats, stricter HIPAA/HITECH requirements, growing BYOD use and the need for open, collaborative networks, Riverside needed a secure, scalable platform to protect patient data and enable information exchange across its distributed ecosystem.

Riverside deployed Fortinet’s integrated security fabric—including FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiMail, FortiDDOS and FortiAuthenticator—to provide application control, DLP, endpoint protection and SSL/VPN access. The implementation delivered unified protection across 17 facilities, centralized administration and monitoring, eliminated throughput and bandwidth constraints, enabled secure remote access for users, reduced TCO and helped Riverside meet compliance while focusing on new clinical services.

Riverside Healthcare

Erik J. Devine

Chief Security Officer