Fortinet announced that Shriram Group has deployed its FortiGate network security platform, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer centralized management and reporting appliances and FortiClient endpoint security client to help secure its data center and 400 branch offices across India. Shriram Group chose Fortinet over several other next-generation firewall vendors for this project based on the company's ability deliver high performance, low latency and easy-to-manage solutions, as well as its strong partner and support ecosystem. To improve network performance, Shriram Group worked with Fortinet to define common policies for users to access applications by enabling a broad range of security features including antivirus, antispam, Web filtering, VPN and application control.

By providing separate firewalls for its Internet gateway and MPLS connection, which included deploying a FortiGate-3040B cluster at the data center, FortiGate-1000A, FortiGate-600C, FortiGate-310B and FortiGate-300C appliances at the corporate offices and more than 400 FortiGate-60C and FortiGate-40C boxes at the branch offices, Shriram Group has been able to greatly reduce network and application latency.