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Barnes Group

How ZTNA Is Taking Flight at a Precision-Equipment Manufacturer

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Business Impact

Challenges

  • Minimize the group’s cyberattack surface
  • Meet the demands of numerous compliance regimes worldwide
  • Manage 8,500 endpoints globally

Solution

  • Modernize with cloud-first networking and security
  • Secure and simplify access with Fortinet Universal ZTNA
  • Standardize security controls across solutions

50%

less time to integrate new businesses

Results

  • Cost-effective deployment of zero-trust network access (ZTNA)
  • Strengthened security for Barnes assets around the world
  • Elimination of expensive firewalls in small offices with just a handful of employees
  • Efficient deployment and ongoing endpoint management reduce staff time spent on security administration
  • Improved performance and resiliency of the network and security infrastructure
  • Seamless user experience via single sign-on for ZTNA and other apps
Barnes Group

Products used

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FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall

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Fortinet Universal ZTNA

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FortiClient

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FortiAuthenticator

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Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

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FortiManager

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FortiAnalyzer

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FortiCare Professional Services

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FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services

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Panoramica

Headquartered in the United States, Barnes Group, Inc. (Barnes) is a global industrial and aerospace manufacturer operating in 116 locations. Users access the Barnes corporate network from 8,500 endpoints, located in diverse regulatory jurisdictions. To minimize the attack surface of its growing network, manage compliance, and unify network-user experience, Barnes’s IT team looked to zero-trust network access (ZTNA).

How a Leading Manufacturer Leveraged ZTNA

Accelerating ZTNA with Fortinet

Working with Fortinet Professional Services, Barnes is implementing ZTNA confidently and cost-effectively. Fortinet Universal ZTNA, integrated with robust endpoint and network protection, and FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services, provides consistent and easy-to-manage security policy enforcement. At the same time, the solution streamlines audits, reduces the group’s IT hardware and administrative costs, and is expected to shorten new business IT integration time by more than 50%.

Guarda ora

 

“Knowing that we…have these controls in place, our technologies [are] in place, [and that] these other table stakes are taken care of, we know that we are in a good and secure position, and I sleep great.”
- Hugh Cauthers, Global Director of IT Infras. & Service Delivery, Barnes Group

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