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Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic forced Canada’s school districts to rip up the rulebook on teaching practices and deploy comprehensive remote learning capabilities. Following the publication of a reference architecture by Ontario’s Ministry of Education, school districts in the province were challenged to protect staff and students outside of school locations by adopting cloud-based Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions.

Fortinet Helps School Board Provide Consistent Security to Users Everywhere

Having already deployed Fortinet Security Fabric solutions throughout its facilities, including the Fortinet Secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), the Wellington Catholic District School Board once again turned to Fortinet for help. Today, the company uses FortiSASE to enable consistent security policies and management, on-premises and in the cloud, with zero-trust network access (ZTNA) to school resources. The school district benefits from a seamless, easy-to-use platform that delivers a secure, exceptional user experience with low TCO.

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"Fortinet came out on top. FortiSASE seamlessly integrates with our existing products while protecting our previous Fortinet investments. And, it was easy to extend FortiClient to FortiSASE, which freed us from needing to train our people on a new SASE solution. FortiSASE was really the next step in our network evolution."

– Peter VanDorp, Cybersecurity Analyst, Wellington Catholic District School Board

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Business Impact

30% reduction in overall TCO through integration

2,000 hours saved annually in training with faster user onboarding

Flexibility and security across on-premises and cloud systems

Consistent security across schools, staff, and students, wherever their location

 


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