Case Study: Florida Atlantic University achieves robust email security and faster delivery with Fortinet's FortiMail

Florida Atlantic University Boosts Email Performance and Enhances Security With FortiMail

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is a public research university serving over 30,000 students across six campuses in Southeast Florida. FAU faced increasing email security risks—phishing, impersonation, ransomware, and theft of research IP and student financial data—while needing to preserve open access for faculty and streamline an aging, end-of-life email security solution.

FAU ran a proof of concept and deployed Fortinet’s FortiMail (on-prem at primary and disaster-recovery sites) and later added FortiGate NGFWs and FortiClient. The new setup delivered multi-layered protection against spam, phishing, impersonation and BEC, granular controls to allow legitimate bulk mail, faster email processing and message tracing, an improved user experience, and an estimated 0.5 FTE in operational savings, supported by consistent Fortinet customer service.

Florida Atlantic University

Mehran Basiratmand

Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer