Case Study
Schenectady County Builds a Resilient, Secure Foundation for Critical Public Services with Fortinet
Schenectady County modernized infrastructure supporting 25 facilities, more than 1,100 employees, emergency management, public libraries, a jail, and a 911 communications center. A previous cyber incident exposed the risks of its flat network, limited segmentation, fragmented tools, and poor visibility. Fortinet consolidated five separate security products into one platform providing firewalling, intrusion prevention, filtering, application control, switching, wireless, and SD-WAN. Automatic failover keeps critical services operating without users noticing network outages. Centralized logging and analytics allow the IT team to investigate activity across all sites, while junior staff can resolve most access issues in under five minutes. New access points and switches can be authorized and
