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School board approves five-year Fortinet cybersecurity and voice package to update district firewalls, phones and phishing protection
Summary
The Levy County School Board approved a negotiated five-year, six-payment Fortinet renewal to update firewall hardware, endpoint protection, a phishing simulation program and IP phone hardware; board approved by voice vote.
The Levy County School Board approved a five-year cybersecurity and voice infrastructure package with Fortinet to update the district firewall, endpoint protection, a phishing-simulation and training component and new voice-over-IP hardware for phones.
A technology director (name not specified) told the board the package combines hardware and software to meet federal E-Rate filtering requirements, replace end-of-life phone hardware and add phishing-simulation training. The director said vendors and district staff "worked to downsize hardware" where possible and eliminated software components judged noncritical to reduce cost. The director also described bundled training and…
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