Case Study: Axfood achieves robust data-center security and improved performance with Fortinet

Swedish Food Retail Group Prepares for Digital Transformation Through Fortinet Data Center Firewall Upgrade

Axfood, one of Sweden’s largest food retail groups with 1,200+ stores and 10,000+ employees, is pursuing digital transformation—rolling out digital receipts, a proprietary shopping app and multi-cloud services—while protecting a complex estate that includes SAP, AWS and Azure. By 2019 the company recognized its data-center defenses were falling behind evolving cyber threats and needed a scalable, application- and user-aware solution that could deliver high-throughput inspection, segmentation and prioritization without degrading performance.

Axfood chose a Fortinet stack—two FortiGate 2200E NGFWs plus FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSandbox and Enterprise Advanced Support—which provided AI-powered threat intelligence, TLS inspection and centralized management. The deployment delivered stronger protection against advanced and unknown threats, improved throughput and application response times, better visibility and control across traffic, and the flexibility to adopt SD‑WAN and extended cloud protections as the business grows.

Axfood

Mats Serneholt

Technical Area Manager