Central Utah Educational Services supports seven independent rural school districts with limited local IT resources and varying network configurations. Overly permissive firewall policies, encrypted traffic, distributed systems, and inconsistent controls created security risks and operational complexity. CUES deployed FortiGate firewalls across all districts, using SSL inspection, application control, intrusion prevention, and automated response workflows to identify and block suspicious activity. FortiAnalyzer centralizes logging, reporting, investigations, and automation, serving as a reliable source of truth for network events. FortiAuthenticator adds identity-based access, RADIUS authentication, and MFA for administrators, while FortiAP and FortiSwitch simplify secure connectivity. The

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