Case Study: Maine Township High School District 207 achieves secure, segmented wireless access, blocks inappropriate content, and 40% lower latency with Palo Alto Networks

School District Goes to Head of Class in Wireless Network Security

Maine Township High School District 207 serves more than 7,000 students across three award‑winning high schools and needed to secure a campus-wide wireless environment without impeding productivity. The district’s priorities were preventing student access to inappropriate content, protecting faculty and administrative privacy, offering safe guest Wi‑Fi, simplifying policy management, and stopping disruptive denial‑of‑service attacks.

District 207 consolidated onto the Palo Alto Networks Next‑Generation Security Platform integrated with Aruba ClearPass, deploying three PA‑3020 firewalls and subscriptions for Threat Prevention, URL Filtering, and WildFire to segment users and enforce granular policies. The deployment secured all internet traffic, blocked inappropriate content, reduced DoS incidents and downtime, saved hundreds of IT hours through easier policy management, and improved internet latency by about 40%.

Maine Township High School District 207

Jon Urbanski

Network Manager