Case Study: Fordham University reduces firewall management time by 50% with Fortinet Security Fabric

Fordham University cuts firewall management time by 50% with Fortinet

Fordham University faced severe challenges managing ransomware, malware, and phishing risks while ensuring secure remote access for its community. Their legacy firewalls were overwhelmed by a quadrupling of remote access volume during the pandemic, leading to frequent VPN outages. To address this, the university turned to vendor Fortinet for a solution involving FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls.

By deploying high-availability FortiGate NGFWs with intrusion prevention and simplifying management with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, Fortinet provided a comprehensive solution. This implementation completely eliminated VPN connectivity outages caused by firewall overload. As a result, Fordham University reduced staff time spent on firewall management by 50% and expects to achieve over 50% in cost savings.

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