In the U.S. K-12 schools are suffering the brunt of ransomware cyber-attacks. While larger districts have resources to purchase, deploy or outsource their firewalls and other cyberinfrastructure defenses, smaller schools are left out, lacking budget, IT network, and cyber expertise to affordably protect their student connections and data privacy. To help, Fortinet and Exclusive Networks are now introducing new ways to enable their channel and end users access to funding and technical resources to finally protect this vulnerable segment which represents most of the U.S. K-12 market.