Nagasaki Prefectural Office of Education
Nagasaki School Leaders Choose FortiEDR to Protect Their District from Ransomware
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The Nagasaki Prefectural Office of Education oversees schools across Nagasaki Prefecture, located in western Kyushu, Japan. With digital learning on the rise, the organization has provided PCs to all staff and students. However, an expanding attack surface and stringent new policy requirements from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) meant that the organization needed to enhance network security—and within a tight budget.
FortiEDR endpoint detection and response has proved the ideal solution. Installed on over 4,000 PCs used by teachers and staff across 79 prefectural high schools and special-needs schools, as well as on the servers at each institution, FortiEDR delivers an easy-to-understand management interface, increased visibility of applications, and data recovery and rollback functions for additional protection. FortiEDR works alongside the other Fortinet Security Fabric solutions used by the organization in areas including networking security and security operations. Together, the solution is a tightly integrated security stack and a platform ready for future security and networking requirements as they arise.
“When we heard about the increasing number of ransomware attacks that were slipping past conventional endpoint protection, we felt an urgent sense that our defenses were inadequate.”
– Jun Nakao, Chief Manager, Information Technology Promotion Team, Education Policy Division, Nagasaki Prefectural Office of Education
Business Impact
Enhanced security without increasing the cost of existing antivirus software
Established visibility of security status and applications in use
Provided a smooth transition to operation with an easy-to-understand Japanese-language management interface
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