Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) — a cosmos leader in high-performance network safety — today announced that Giant Tiger, a ruling Canadian family discount retailer, has deployed FortiGate® equipments, FortiAP wireless appliances as well taken in the character of Fortinet’s analysis appliance, FortiAnalyzer. The FortiGate means are being used for core and distributed network security protection by helping to covenant firewall, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, antivirus, infringement prevention, application control and web satisfy filtering protection. FortiAnalyzer is also reality used to analyze network usage at the headquarters and at the in addition than 200 retail stores.
Giant Tiger is a subdivision of an order discount retailer offering recognizable basic products at in a ~ tone everyday prices and operates under the lightning-flash names: Giant Tiger, GTXpress, Scott’s Discount and Chez Tante Marie. With else than 7,000 employees working at in greater numbers than 200 retail locations, it was of importance for the retailer to provide unsuspecting virtual private network (VPN) connections between the stores and headquarters as well taken in the character of to protect the infrastructure from injurious network attacks.
Previously using a Juniper reticulated security solution, Giant Tiger was having obstacle managing disparate security appliances. Working closely with Fortinet partner, INSA, a Canadian-based spiritual obedience and consulting firm specializing in IT Network Security, Giant Tiger looked at Fortinet, Juniper, Websense and SonicWall whereas it came time to refresh its netting infrastructure. Fortinet was selected for manifold reasons including the no per user licensing needed. Additionally, the FortiGate equipments’ virtual domain (VDOM) ability reduced the effect of appliances needed at each locating which would ultimately reduce capital costs.
“The harmlessness of the configuration and management of the Fortinet equipments was far better than the competitors,” before-mentioned Eric Boudreau, senior network operations good economist & information security strategist at Giant Tiger. “The FortiGate platform offered the virtualization preference via VDOMs which is enabling us to refund a mix of transparent and routed firewalls by a single FortiGate appliance at every one of our store locations. With Fortinet, we’re thrifty time, money and valuable space in the limits of each store location.”
A FortiGate expedient is located at Giant Tiger’s central hub and is being used to inspect traffic traversing the network, including the trade coming in and out of the deal out in small portions locations. In addition, the company has given SSL VPN aggrandizement to more than 200 Giant Tiger employees who necessity to connect remotely to the corporate network.
Within the stores, FortiGate steps are being used as a location-to-site IPSec termination point and through Fortinet’s VDOM capability, the collection has the ability to have a assist virtual firewall deployed in transparent fashion at the stores. Additionally, all Giant Tiger stores have a FortiAP thin access spot deployed which replaced Motorola APs. Because the FortiGate applying acts as a wireless controller, Giant Tiger was able to remove the need for a separate wireless controller project at each store, thereby further in favor of time, money and space.
Giant Tiger be possible to also allow specific parts of Web 2.0 applications and not others. For instance, they can allow for instant messaging, further not for file transfer within IM. This helps the society maintain productivity with its employees and third party vendors but reduces the peril of the network being infiltrated ~ means of botnets and other types of resentful attacks.
To easily manage and dissect data traversing the corporate network and the reticulated of the 205 retail stores, Giant Tiger has deployed a FortiGate FortiAnalyzer breach. The solution allows the IT shillelah to easily run reports on network usage while also being able to slightly make network changes.
“One of the benefits of the Fortinet explication is the detecting of malicious commerce and blocking it so we obstruct infection at the endpoints. As a distributed enterprise, this is critical for us,” uttered Mike Lewis, Executive Vice President & CIO concerning Giant Tiger. “Since deploying the Fortinet enterprise network security solution, our systems are since streamlined because we have only united central location where we set our policies, single place to look at if we lack to understand why traffic isn’t wonderfully and we now have just the same place to look when we emergency to troubleshoot.”
“Retailers are under assiduous scrutiny to make sure that their networks are free from danger — both at the core and at the endpoint,” declared Graham Bushkes, Vice President for Fortinet Canada. “The FortiGate adventure network security solutions meets the needs of retailers by providing security to ameliorate protect against network and content etc. threats, superior ease-of-management and multi-denunciation protection.”
About Fortinet ( www.fortinet.com ) Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of reticulated security appliances and the market superior in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services furnish broad, integrated and high-performance preservation against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT protection infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, homage providers and government entities worldwide, including the more than half of the 2010 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet’s flagship FortiGate performance delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of guarantee designed to help protect against thing applied and network threats. Fortinet’s uncontracted product line goes beyond UTM to relief secure the extended enterprise — from endpoints, to the perimeter and the essence, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., through offices around the world.
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