Case Study: Millard Public Schools achieves stronger data protection and 24/7 threat detection with Fortinet Managed Endpoint Protection

Fortinet Managed Endpoint Protection Efficiently Safeguards School District Information

Millard Public Schools, a 35‑school district in Omaha, Nebraska serving 24,000 students and supported by a six‑person IT team, needed to protect roughly 30,000 endpoints and sensitive student/staff data with limited staff and budget. The district was especially concerned about ransomware and disruptions to cloud‑based classroom tools and essential services, but had no capacity to add dedicated security personnel.

Millard deployed Fortinet solutions—FortiClient EMS on client devices, FortiEDR on servers, FortiGate firewalls, FortiMail, FortiAnalyzer and FortiGuard MDR—to strengthen endpoint protection and monitoring. Fortinet’s managed detection identified and helped stop an active attack (requiring rebuild of 10 servers), improved patching and email defenses, boosted IT confidence and visibility, and delivered security expertise and time/cost savings without hiring additional staff.

Millard Public Schools

Joe Kuehl

District Technology Manager