Fortinet/Fortigate
Overview
- Overview
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Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall platform used to protect district internet connections, data centers, campuses, and distributed school networks. It combines firewalling, VPN, intrusion prevention, malware inspection, application control, web and DNS filtering, segmentation, and software-defined wide-area networking in physical, virtual, and cloud form factors.
A firewall connects campus networks, remote access, and protected services through defined rules. Network and application teams coordinate changes because a single policy can affect many classrooms and business processes. A request may pass through several network services before reaching an application. Location, device, address, and policy context help explain where a failure or access decision occurred.
A change to routing, naming, addressing, or access policy can affect multiple schools and departments. IT teams coordinate approval, testing, maintenance timing, and response to faults with the affected service owners. Its place in the district is foundational: a healthy application can still be unavailable when the network relationship it relies on is incorrect.
Features
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Network security
- Provides stateful firewalling, intrusion prevention, malware inspection, application control, and encrypted-traffic analysis.
Web and DNS controls
- Applies category, reputation, application, DNS, and user-aware policies to internet access.
Secure connectivity
- Supports site-to-site and remote-access VPN, segmentation, and SD-WAN across district locations.
Central operations
- Integrates with FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and other Security Fabric components for policy, logs, and response.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
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Fortinet/Fortigate Privacy Policy:
https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/privacy
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
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Company News
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Interoperability
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