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Overview

Founded in 1953 and headquartered in Texas, McCombs Enterprises comprises automotive dealerships, an energy company, and an investment arm. The company needed to consolidate its complex multi-vendor networking and security infrastructure and was looking to increase endpoint security and network visibility.

Meeting Networking and Security Needs with Fortinet

Starting with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), McCombs Enterprises now leverages a consolidated Fortinet Security Fabric solution to meet its networking and security needs. The solution includes FortiSwitch Ethernet switches, FortiAP wireless access points, FortiManager for centralized network management, and FortiAnalyzer for reporting, logging, and analysis. In addition, the company uses FortiXDR extended detection and response to correlate endpoint and network data to rapidly identify and remediate potential threats. McCombs Enterprises has been able to dramatically reduce the time its small security team spends investigating potential threats while increasing network visibility and improving end users’ experience.

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“What we were really looking for was more and more convergence to try and get both the security aspect [and] the functional aspect of the network into a single pane of glass. And Fortinet…really helped us. We have just about Forti-everything.”

– Don Aten, Enterprise Networking and Security Manager, McCombs Enterprises

Business Impact

Networking and security enabled through a single management pane

Increased security protection including from ransomware

Increased visibility of network and security events

Correlated network and endpoint intelligence to better identify potential threats across approximately 1,300 employees and 4,000 devices

Significant time savings for the small security team

Better network experience for end users

 


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