Fortinet releases a new version of FortiClient to protect classrooms that adopt Chromebook usage integrated into the curriculum. This adds to Fortinet’s significant investment to secure the Education segment.
FortiClient Chromebook Benefits:
- Automated updates keep defenses up-to-date with the latest website ratings.
- Fully customized policy-based access control based on categories, websites, and individual pages via granular blocking & filtering.
- Comprehensive protection - URL database with more than 75 categories, more than 43 million rated websites, and more than two billion web pages.
- Faster update times by customizable update options.
- Helps attain CIPA (US HR4577) and BECTA (UK) compliance.
It is astounding that education has more security incidents than healthcare or manufacturing as evidenced by 254 incidents recorded in 20151 and accounts for 27.4% of all attacks seen across various verticals2. Schools continue to be key targets for cyber attackers since they possess a wealth of information including PII, research, intellectual property, and many more.
Unfortunately, security is only one facet of the problem. Compliance is a forefront issue for many educators to tackle. Adherence to country, state, local regulations such as Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), British Education Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) and many others, combined with each individual school’s Internet Acceptable-use and Safety policy are challenges requiring complex security controls to implement and manage.
FortiClient’s Chromebook extension (i.e. plug-in) secures Chrome OS by blocking access to inappropriate websites with objectionable content, or harmful websites that may contain phishing/pharming attacks or malware. FortiClient’s Web Filtering lets you attain CIPA (US HR4577) and BECTA (UK) compliance by enabling highly-granular policies that filter web access based on more than 75 web content categories, and more than 43 million rated websites – all continuously updated via FortiGuard Labs.
To ease the deployment and management of FortiClients for Chromebooks within the Google Domain, FortiClient’s Enterprise Management Software (EMS) offering is integral to the endpoint solution.
FortiClient Chromebook support expands the existing FortiClient coverage for Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS and Android devices.
If you would like to learn more or evaluate FortiClient, please contact your local Fortinet representative or Fortinet Distributor.
The Fortinet Team
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- Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report
- Cyber Threat Assessment: Threat Landscape Report 2016
