reduction in staff hours for solution maintenance and operations
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The Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB) in Canada needed to protect its 40,000 staff and students across a distributed environment with a large number of devices. Given the thousands of endpoints in circulation, UGDSB found certificate management a considerable challenge. As a result, the district had started to consider a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture as a solution. The search for such was given added urgency when Ontario’s Ministry of Education issued a reference architecture to school boards requesting a cloud-based endpoint protection strategy.
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With Fortinet, UGDSB could meet the Ministry of Education’s requirements by adding a security layer. The school board’s SD-WAN solution has evolved to integrate FortiSASE, which provides a full set of networking and security capabilities delivered from the cloud. The result is improved security, visibility, performance, and management efficiency.
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“We needed more protection for our students because we are really good at protecting them on-premises with the UTM on the firewalls. But we needed that functionality to move with them wherever they went anywhere, anytime. We moved to SASE because it was an evolution for us...it was moving away from the concept of, ‘we teach in the school,’ to allowing them to learn from anywhere in the world.”
- Ryan Buhrow, Enterprise Systems Engineer, Upper Grand District School Board
