As Security Incidents Rise at Education Facilities Nationwide, Multiple K-12 Institutions Choose Fortinet to Protect Against Cyber Attacks

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - August 27, 2015) - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) -- the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, announced today that a number of K-12 school districts and educational institutions across the country are entrusting Fortinet and its partners with the security of their students, teachers and faculty as well as their ability to take leaps forward with new technologies to enrich learning. Working with Fortinet, school districts in Hillsborough County, Florida; Merced County high school district in California; Cypress-Fairbanks ISD in Texas; as well as Central Catholic High School in Pennsylvania, are now able to launch successful technologies and tools to expand the learning environment, while protecting important student and faculty data, and monitoring online activity via multiple devices to block actions that could be harmful to students or lead to a security compromise.

Fortinet's End-to-End Network Security Platform Uniquely Addresses the Toughest Challenges in Education

Fortinet's security platform is ideally suited for educational environments, which are increasingly finding themselves the targets of cyber criminals. According to a recent Ponemon Institute report, as many as 15% of all recorded security breaches have occurred at an education institution, and the education industry has the second highest per capita data breach cost of all industries.

Fortinet's flexible and extensive product portfolio enables customers to deploy an array of security solutions that meet their specific needs -- whether in large or small, wired or wireless environments. The company's flagship FortiGate appliances integrate a broad array of security and networking functions designed to protect data, applications, and users from network- and content-level security threats. These functions include firewall, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, application control, virtual private network, web-based malware prevention, and anti-spam. Fortinet's custom FortiASIC processors and FortiGuard portfolio of integrated subscription-based security services provide customers the lowest total cost of ownership with the highest levels of performance and security. Using Fortinet solutions, educators globally can support BYOD, guard against an array of malware and viruses, and completely control application usage -- all from a single platform.