Case Study: UNITE HERE Health safeguards member data and maintains network integrity and availability with Fortinet

Unite Here Health - Customer Case Study

UNITE HERE Health, a benefits provider and direct-care network serving more than 200,000 unionized hotel, casino and restaurant workers and their families, faced scalability and compliance challenges after rapid growth. Supporting 500 employees, two data centers and over 2,000 endpoints, the organization needed a security redesign to meet HIPAA, PCI DSS and PII protection requirements — but during vendor bake-offs most firewalls could not run full threat protection without unacceptable performance degradation.

UNITE HERE deployed Fortinet’s Security Fabric — led by FortiGate and supplemented with FortiWAN, FortiWeb, FortiClient, FortiAuthenticator, FortiSandbox, FortiSIEM, FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager — enabling full threat inspection, segmentation and traffic shaping without throughput loss. The integrated solution stopped a large, distributed 19‑hour email attack, reduced PCI audit scope by isolating card data, improved VOIP and BYOD performance and visibility, and delivered faster remediation, stronger compliance and enterprise‑grade protection at a compelling price.

Unite Here Health

Odoric Wilson

Senior Security Architect