Case Study: Athens Independent School District strengthens cybersecurity and improves network reliability with Fortinet Security Fabric

Athens Independent School District eliminates outages and protects five campuses with Fortinet

Athens Independent School District, a pioneering Texas school district, faced the challenge of managing network and security across five campuses with a small, two-person IT team. Their previous multivendor technology stack was causing issues, including prolonged network outages. They turned to vendor Fortinet to implement its unified Fortinet Security Fabric solution.

By consolidating on the Fortinet Security Fabric, the district eliminated network outages with transparent firewall failover, ensuring a fully reliable phone system where there were previously multiple-hours-long outages twice a week. The Fortinet solution automatically detects and mitigates cyberthreats at the source, saving significant time for the IT team who no longer need to travel from site to site.

Athens Independent School District