As high-value targets, financial services institutions are continually being attacked, making it difficult to move from a reactive cybersecurity stance to a proactive one. The Fortinet Security Fabric provides an integrated cybersecurity mesh platform that covers all aspects of the business, from the trading floor, to the data center, to the branches, to the cloud. This ensures consistent security across the entire organization.
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Financial services institutions face mounting challenges from several directions at once. The Fortinet Security Fabric offers a solution that includes leading-edge machine learning and AI technologies, providing timely and consistently top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence.
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Fortinet uniquely converges networking and security features in FortiOS, the industry’s most mature and prolific operating system. Delivering convergence via a single operating system enables efficient operations and ensures that user experience and security are consistent no matter where users or applications are distributed.
To address today’s complex financial services environments, an open cybersecurity ecosystem that unifies multi-vendor solutions is required. Fortinet has the largest ecosystem in the industry with more than 500 partners. These include technology partners, threat Intelligence partners, tools for DevOps, and partners for automation.
Improving End-user Experience
Customers expect a seamless and personalized experience
Complex Networks
Non-integrated security products operate in silos and cannot effectively respond to threats
Cloud Adoption
Forced acceleration to cloud results in a variety of amplified security risks
Expanding Attack Surface
Executive teams need to ensure resiliency, compliance, and security effectiveness
Ineffective Application and Network Segmentation
Current segmentation approaches fall short, enabling threats to spread
Cost Reduction
Limited cybersecurity budgets require strategic financial and human resource allocation
The company needed a high-performance, scalable solution that could empower the networking operations group to deploy hundreds of teleworking devices concurrently."
- U.S. Multinational Financial Services Institution
Scalability was a big concern for the company, as was the ability to integrate with the team’s chosen automation platform—Red Hat Ansible. Fortinet’s robust representational state transfer (REST) API enabled a deeper and more robust Ansible integration than other solutions that were considered, and FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) delivered superior performance and scalability. Additionally, the Fortinet team was very responsive to requests for support and new features. An internal analysis projects $100 million in cost savings and efficiency gains in five years from deployment of FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFWs).
- One of the World’s Largest Financial Institutions
With Fortinet, we were able to achieve 30% CapEx savings on cybersecurity investments against comparable solutions, a notable figure as we strived to achieve agility and cost-efficiency in our IT operations.”
- Director of IT and Strategic Infrastructure, Vietnamese Bank
We have effectively cut our outages in half. The proof is in the pudding that Fortinet Secure SD-WAN does what it is supposed to do.”
- Joe Mogelinski, Senior Network Engineer, USI Insurance Services
Take a self-guided tour to experience how the Fortinet Security Fabric addresses the cybersecurity challenges in financial services.
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In our 2024 threat predictions report, our FortiGuardLabs team looks at a new era of advanced cybercrime, examines how AI is changing the (attack) game, shares fresh threat trends to watch for this year and beyond, and offers advice on how organizations everywhere can enhance their collective resilience against an evolving threat landscape.
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the financial sector demands not just security but transformation. As high-value targets, financial services institutions are continually being attacked, making it difficult to move from a reactive cybersecurity stance to a proactive one. The Fortinet Security Fabric provides an integrated cybersecurity mesh platform that covers all aspects of the business, from the trading floor, to the data center, to the branches, to the cloud. Join us on an exclusive journey as we unveil Fortinet's advanced cybersecurity solutions, empowering financial institutions across EMEA to thrive in the digital age.
The financial services sector is a high-value target for cyberattacks and highly regulated by jurisdictions around the world. Facing constant intrusion attempts and other attacks, IT solutions for financial services often find it difficult to move from a reactive cybersecurity stance to a proactive one. Achieving this goal is complicated by a continually expanding attack surface brought about by new technologies launched through digital innovation initiatives.
