Case Study: Waiyan Online achieves robust cloud security and high-performance application delivery with Fortinet

Delivering Robust Security With Effective Application Performance for One of China’s Largest Online eLearning Providers

Beijing Waiyan Online Digital Technology Co., Ltd.—the operator of the Unipus platform used by over 70 million students and 1,700 colleges—runs its entire education service in the public cloud but faced growing security and continuity challenges. With massive peak traffic, a large threat surface, and limitations in its cloud provider’s native threat prevention, Waiyan needed a scalable, automated security solution that would protect users and let its teams upgrade and operate applications without downtime.

Following a successful proof of concept, Waiyan deployed Fortinet’s FortiWeb Web Application Firewall and FortiGate Next‑Generation Firewalls to deliver a high‑availability, cloud‑integrated security architecture. The solution automatically mitigates most attacks, improves threat detection accuracy, and reduces false positives, freeing the applications team to focus on development while ensuring robust, scalable protection and continuous service availability for millions of users.

Waiyan Online

Qikun Shang

Chief Executive Officer