Case Study: Options (financial services IaaS provider) achieves secure, low-latency, compliant services with Fortinet

Security and Performance Drive Financial Services Clients to Choose Options

Options is a global provider of managed services and IaaS for financial institutions, operating from London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Facing intense regulatory scrutiny and the need to support ultra-low-latency, high-throughput trading environments, Options needed to strengthen multi‑factor authentication, multi-tenant virtual firewalling and clientless/site-to-site VPNs without increasing operational complexity.

Options chose Fortinet FortiGate next‑generation firewalls (and FortiMail) for their ASIC-based performance, dynamic load balancing and simple administration. The deployment reduced IPS/IDS false positives, improved overall security effectiveness, enabled a series of fully compliant new services, sped up service rollout, lowered operational overhead, and helped Options win more clients while maintaining compliance.

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John Bryant

Chief Technology Officer