Fortinet has announced that the company’s appliances have been deployed throughout its core network of Rural Wisconsin Healthcare Cooperative (RWHC). With the help of Fortinet appliances, RWHC will try to reduce the amount of spam hitting the network.
Apart from helping with certain requirements of the Rural Health Care Pilot Program (RHCPP), Fortinet appliances were selected to help RWHC with compliance with Federal regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). The Cisco solution did not meet all RWHC Information Technology Network needs in a single termination point, the company stated.
Fortinet offers models to satisfy any deployment requirement from the FortiGate-30 series for small offices to the FortiGate-5000 series for very large enterprises, service providers and carriers.
“RWHC is a great example of a healthcare organization taking full advantage of Fortinet's breadth and depth of products because they realize that network security is more than just a firewall or a single functionality,” said Pete Brant, vice president of enterprise sales at Fortinet. “The combination of FortiGate appliances and FortiMail makes a powerful security solution for an industry that is so tightly regulated by safeguards to protect data.”
FortiGate-200B appliances and FortiGate-30B appliances located at different hospitals and clinics are deployed in the network are FortiGate-310B appliances. Apart from providing firewall protection and various VPN services, the appliances are helping to provide antivirus and intrusion prevention protection. The appliances are helping to protect eight different email domains consisting of roughly 2,000 employee email addresses, the company stated in a press release.
Recently, Warmia-Mazury, a popular touristic region in Poland selected Fortinet's FortiGate, FortiWiFi and FortiAP appliances for this purpose. Warmia-Mazury opted for the deployment of one FortiGate-620B network security appliance in its main office, to help secure its wireless network infrastructure. The company also deployed 246 FortiGate-80C, 289 FortiWiFi-80C and 383 FortiAP-220A integrated wireless security appliances throughout its 640 access points.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
Jennifer Russell
