CASE STUDY
F
ortinet, a global leader in broad,
integrated and automated
cybersecurity solutions, has announced
that the Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM)
has deployed Fortinet’s solutions as a
foundation to secure its critical networks and
data across its headquarters and 45 branch
locations in the city.
The ADM has selected the Fortinet
Security Fabric to gain end-to-end visibility,
automation and control into its network,
cloud applications and IoT devices and to
help protect its critical network from known
and unknown attacks.
The Abu Dhabi City Municipality is an
efficient municipal system ensuring
62
INTELLIGENTCIO
sustainable development and enhancing the
quality of life criteria for the Emirate of Abu
Dhabi. Its main mission is to achieve and
deliver best-in-class efficient and customer
centric municipal services by engaging with
the community and partners. its network and data, which includes
sensitive information on lands and
proprieties ownerships, city and buildings
infrastructure, but also contains PII
(personally identifiable information) and
intellectual property data.
With ADM’s critical network and data assets
spread across its headquarters and 45
branches in the city of Abu Dhabi, most of its
existing security solutions were in silos. This
meant limited visibility and control over the
network and devices. “We wanted to have a complete security
strategy approach in one platform, ensuring
a zero-trust model and positive security
implementation. It was important for
the solution to provide threat detection,
prevention and response capabilities. It had
to allow for internal segmentation, complete
end-to-end visibility and superior protection
from advanced threats,” said Ali Mohamed
Aljeadi, Head of IT Infrastructure and Security
(CISO), at Abu Dhabi City Municipality.
With an increase in IoT vulnerabilities,
ransomware and enterprise application
threats, it became imperative for ADM to
have a single security platform to secure
www.intelligentcio.com