Best Western Hotels and Resorts (BW) is an internationally recognized hospitality chain, with 2,200 properties in the U.S. and about 4,000 around the world. Because each BW property operates independently, managing network security was a challenge. After noticing an increase in social engineering at the hotels—and varying levels of success in combatting the issue—BW directed all hotels in North America to deploy the Fortinet Security Fabric. In doing so, the affiliate hotels gained a host of additional threat protection features, alongside the traditional firewall protection.
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“We require [affiliates] to be compliant, but we have to be more proactive, making sure we enforce it, as opposed to just auditing it. Also, we need to be able to talk to our executive management board to make sure they understand the business impact, not just the technology.” -- Harold Dibler, Vice President of Technology, Best Western Hotels and Resorts
Watch NowBusiness Impact
Reduced risk of data privacy compromise
Expanded threat protection for individual hotels
Increased ability to enforce compliance with security standards
Improved insight into security posture for corporate management
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