Case Study: IFB Certus achieves a secure, centralized network and 60% less firewall administration with Fortinet

IFB Certus - Customer Case Study

IFB Certus is a Peruvian technical and professional education institution (founded 1995) serving about 25,000 students across 10 offices in Lima, Arequipa and Chiclayo. The school needed stable, secure network services to support growth, but a complex, fragmented infrastructure with multiple control devices created bottlenecks, degraded performance, high administrative overhead and downtime.

IFB Certus implemented a centralized Fortinet architecture using a high-availability FortiGate 1500D and FortiAnalyzer 300D to consolidate firewall, IPS, application control, antivirus and web filtering. The change simplified management, improved security and performance, cut firewall administration time by 60%, eliminated $4,000/month in equipment rental costs (about $48,000/year) and reduced downtime.

IFB Certus

Omar Lira

Assistant Manager for IT