How long did the Fortinet deployment take at Toyota Material Handling?

The entire deployment process took approximately 18 months, during which Toyota Material Handling worked with Fortinet professional services to upgrade their core networking, LAN network, and implement security solutions including FortiGates, FortiManager, FortiNAC, FortiEDR, and FortiDeceptor across their campus.

How does Toyota Material Handling secure their OT environment with Fortinet?

Toyota Material Handling uses FortiDeceptor to provide visibility into their OT environment. Since OT systems are sensitive to traditional agent-based security products, FortiDeceptor acts as a decoy target for potential threat actors, giving the security team visibility they wouldn't otherwise have without deploying agents on manufacturing systems.

Toyota Material Handling Modernizes Security with Fortinet

Name: Toyota Material Handling Modernizes Security with Fortinet
Uploaded: 2026-05-08T19:18:16-04:00
Duration: 8 min 27 s
Description: Toyota Material Handling North America is an industry leader in manufacturing material handling solutions. The team faced an aging security infrastructure and needed to modernize its systems. Hear how #Fortinet increased its network visibility, reduced...

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Toyota Material Handling replaced aging, end-of-support network infrastructure with a comprehensive Fortinet security stack across their 57-acre manufacturing campus with four plants.
The 18-month deployment included FortiGates, FortiManager, FortiNAC, FortiEDR, FortiDeceptor, and FortiNDR to address east-west traffic visibility and OT security challenges.
FortiDeceptor provides critical visibility into the OT environment where traditional agent-based security cannot be deployed due to sensitivity of manufacturing systems.
The unified FortiOS management interface has accelerated team training and improved collaboration between networking and security teams through consistent tooling.

Legacy Infrastructure Challenges at Toyota Material Handling

Toyota Material Handling North America, the industry leader in forklift manufacturing, operates a sprawling 57-acre campus with four interconnected plants and two more under construction. The organization faced significant challenges with aging network infrastructure that had reached end-of-support and end-of-sale status, resulting in frequent outages, firmware vulnerabilities, and an inability to maintain support contracts. The network architecture team, led by Christopher Garcia and security architect Michael Nichols, identified critical gaps in east-west traffic visibility and the need for role-based access controls across their complex manufacturing environment.

Comprehensive Fortinet Deployment and Integration

Over an 18-month implementation period utilizing Fortinet professional services, Toyota Material Handling deployed a comprehensive security stack including edge FortiGates with IBGP configuration across five zones (plant, enterprise, data center, wireless, and DMZ), FortiManager for centralized management, FortiNAC for wireless access control across 14 VLANs, FortiEDR for endpoint protection, and FortiDeceptor for OT environment visibility. The team specifically chose FortiEDR for its ability to manage endpoints both on-network and off-network, addressing the remote workforce challenges that emerged post-COVID. FortiDeceptor proved particularly valuable for the sensitive OT environment where traditional agent-based security products cannot be deployed.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction and Company Overview
0:52 - Security Challenges and Legacy Infrastructure
1:57 - Choosing Fortinet as Solution
2:36 - Network Architecture and Deployment
3:49 - FortiEDR and Endpoint Security
4:24 - FortiDeceptor for OT Visibility
5:49 - Unified Management Benefits
7:45 - Future Plans and Expansion

Key Quotes

1:12 "Honestly, visibility. We don't know what we don't know. We can't fix what we don't see."
4:45 "As we know, OT is very sensitive on what type of security products you roll out, what type of agents you want to roll out. So being able to take FortiDeceptor and have it sit within that OT environment and provide a target for potential threat actors helps to give us visibility we didn't have before."
5:17 "With FortiEDR, there's more proactive security controls in place that will stop things from happening instead of just getting alerted after the fact."
7:15 "Being able to purchase one product and getting so many things with it included at no cost was a big driver for us."

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