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Higher education institutions face unique cybersecurity challenges due to their complex networks, diverse user base and open academic environments. With thousands of students, staff and faculty members accessing resources from various locations and devices, universities must have visibility of what’s happening on their networks and robust and responsive cybersecurity protection to help safeguard them.

It’s a question we hear often - how do we use the Progress Flowmon solution to block an attack? Flowmon is not an inline appliance that stands in the path of inbound traffic, so we partner with third-party vendors who supply equipment such as firewalls or unified security gateways. In this post, we’re going to show you how to instruct Fortinet’s firewall FortiGate via Flowmon ADS to block traffic in response to a detected anomaly or attack.