Case Study: Wodonga Institute of TAFE secures 2.5 million student contact hours and reduces operational overheads with Fortinet

Fortinet secures 2.5 million hours of student contacts per year at Wodonga TAFE

Wodonga Institute of TAFE (WIOT), a regional tertiary provider on the Albury–Wodonga border delivering over 2.5 million student contact hours annually and supporting multiple remote sites, faced an aging security infrastructure that lacked visibility, struggled to handle exponential traffic growth and imposed heavy operational management overheads on a small ICT team.

WIOT deployed Fortinet FortiGate firewalls (including 600D and 60D/90D models), FortiGuard services and a FortiAnalyzer managed service delivered by The Beachhead Group. The more affordable, better-supported Fortinet solution brought single‑pane management, proactive threat visibility and distributed operational responsibilities across the team, drastically reducing downtime and admin effort while delivering faster, more consistent and secure network services for campus and remote users.

Wodonga Institute of TAFE

Gus Terry

Network Engineer