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Educational institutions face a myriad of IT challenges and typically must solve them with limited budgets. With ever-increasing bring your own devices (BYOD) by students, faculty, and administrators, educational organizations need to scale bandwidth and provide secure access. Sensitive information must be secured and compliance standards protecting students, such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), must be met. While it’s key for educational institutions to have the latest security and networking technologies, limited budgets can make it seem impossible to purchase and then find the resources to manage them.
Fortinet understands challenges educators face in delivering engaging, relevant, and meaningful learning opportunities to students while maintaining a high level of network security to protect data and meet compliance standards.
To aid educational institutions with their network security, the Fortinet Security Fabric supports a highly resilient cyber program for digitally transforming schools. As schools adapt their IT infrastructure to enable digital transformation, they must also undergo a security transformation to protect against the constantly expanding attack surface.
The Security Fabric provides educational institutions with a proactive and transformative approach to their cybersecurity plan. It integrates security solutions, allowing them to share threat intelligence and deliver fast, automated responses to threats anywhere in the network while providing IT staff full visibility of security events throughout the borderless network.
Fortinet’s key capabilities include:
- Rapid, easy deployment via automatic discovery and provisioning when cameras are added to the network
- Priority and quality-of-service-based queuing of traffic
- Integrated SD-WAN capabilities built into FortiGate NGFWs that auto-provision and deliver least-cost routing and highest-priority routes.
- Decision-making at a network level rather than at a camera level
- Camera-policy enforcement
Conclusion
Every year the vast majority of K-12 and higher educational institutions experience at least one incident of violence, which ranges across a wide spectrum. With incident detection and response time critical factors in mitigating the potential implications of safety incidents, an integrated physical and cyber security solution is pivotal.15 Off-the-shelf camera and recording solutions are inadequate, failing to provide the requisite scalability, ease of deployment, intelligence, and cybersecurity protections. Unless all components can be easily integrated and managed—and are compliant with CIPA and other laws and regulations—it becomes nearly impossible to focus on one of the critical roles that educational institutions must play today: protecting students and staff from acts of violence on schools and campuses.
FortiCamera and FortiRecorder, combined with FortiGate NGFWs, FortiSwitch devices, and FortiAP wireless access points, integrate physical and cyber security for a high-performance, easily accessible surveillance camera system. The Fortinet Security Fabric lets educational institutions keep an eye on the distributed network to detect advanced threats and quickly adapt to the evolving network architecture and threat landscape. Fortinet provides a powerful, scalable, reliable, and highly secure solution that helps meet the aggressive, evolving requirements of school safety issues to detect and minimize violence in the school environment.
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