Case Study: East Noble School Corporation cuts $45,000 in annual security costs and strengthens network security with Fortinet

School District Decreases Security Costs While Reducing Risk

East Noble School Corporation, a rural Indiana K–12 district serving more than 3,700 students across eight campuses, faced a 2014 network-security crossroads: legacy firewall and web-filter renewals threatened steep price increases, bandwidth was constrained across three ISPs, and the district needed centralized controls for thousands of student devices and geographically distributed sites.

East Noble adopted a Fortinet Security Fabric centered on a FortiGate NGFW (with FortiClient, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, FortiAuthenticator, FortiRecorder, etc.), consolidating firewall, web filtering and endpoint management into a single console. The rollout reduced security license costs by about $45,000 annually, avoided doubling bandwidth costs, increased wireless bandwidth up to 1,000% at many locations, cut wireless costs by 35%, saved roughly 30 staff-hours per month, and delivered more granular controls and a more proactive security posture.

East Noble School Corporation

Rick Williams

Network Administrator