Lycée Louis Massignon (LLM), a plurilingual school certified by the French Ministry of National Education in Abu Dhabi, UAE, chooses Fortinet Security Fabric to improve its security infrastructure and keep its students and staff safe online. LLM educates more than 1700 pupils from pre-Kindergarten to high school.

To better meet compliance requirements, mitigate chances of data leaks, keep students safe on the web, and preserve LLM’s reputation and credibility, the school decided to improve its security infrastructure to keep up with the increase in the volume of threats and the sophisticated cyber threat landscape.

“Education institutions are amongst the most targeted sectors by cybercriminals, owning to several key factors caused by things like cost constraints, overburdened IT team, and legacy systems,” said Alain Penel, Regional Vice President – Middle East, Fortinet.

Fortinet Security Fabric approach claims to have combined protection across the entire attack surface and cycle with unified management and orchestration, market-leading AI-powered security services, granular control, and centralized compliance capabilities. FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) supporting secure sockets layer (SSL) inspection (including TLS1.3), with natively integrated FortiGuard cloud-delivered web filtering, and advanced intrusion prevention (IPS)were deployed in the LLM infrastructure, reducing complexity by consolidating multiple point products into one Security Fabric.

“Our former solution was unstable and incapable of blocking inappropriate websites,” says Christope Hammami, IT Manager at Lycée Louis Massignon.

“Right after the implementation was completed, we have experienced unified management and ease of operation. In more general terms, we have much more confidence in our security infrastructure. Fortinet’s team was supportive and attentive to understand our pain points and recommend the best solutions,” concludes Christope Hammami, IT Manager at LLM.