Case Study: Clark County School District achieves scalable protection of students' online identities and uninterrupted learning with Fortinet FortiGate

Clark County School District - Customer Case Study

Clark County School District (CCSD), the fifth-largest U.S. school district serving 320,000 students across 357 schools and more than 40,000 staff, faced escalating cyber risk as funded devices and BYOD programs pushed daily endpoints to roughly 400,000 and 120,000 unique IPs. Its legacy firewall repeatedly failed under fragmented traffic that resembled DDoS attacks, disrupting access to teaching materials, online assignments, and critical administrative systems.

CCSD’s MSSP partner Mosaic451 recommended and rapidly deployed Fortinet FortiGate 5000 series NGFWs with active/passive failover, restoring a resilient perimeter capable of handling millions of concurrent sessions. The FortiGates enable traffic shaping, VPN and cloud traffic processing, and quick identification of infected BYOD devices—resulting in reliable classroom access, protection of students’ online identities, and scalable performance without frequent hardware upgrades.

Clark County School District

Troy Miller

Director of Technical Resources