Secure remote access for students, faculty and staff at scale

Schools and universities face a number of different potential emergency situations, such as illness, flood, hurricanes and power outages. Implementing a virtual learning plan for your campus or district is essential to ensuring your systems are capable of conducting classes and lessons while maintaining the minimum days requirement for public K-12 school districts in the face of adversity.

The ability to support students, faculty and staff with the secure access and appropriate Web filtering to study and work remotely is essential to ensuring continuity and security. For Fortinet customers, our solution includes integrated support for remote access.

FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have built-in support for virtual private networks (VPNs), enabling remote students and employees to connect securely to the school or campus network when necessary or required. With secure connectivity, provided by FortiClient, schools and universities can support both cloud-based e-learning and remote work with options to split the traffic as needed and only require a secure connection to the school or university when accessing data in those environments. The majority of education customers may have no requirement to connect directly to the school or university.