Education
Ransomware loves
the first week of term.
Schools hold children's records on a budget that was set before anyone thought about attackers. We secure the network, prepare you for FERPA questions, and keep the Chromebooks, the classroom screens and the parent portal running.
Foothills Digital—Sentrello Premier Partner
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- On-premises Windows
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Sound familiar?
Student records are a target
Attackers know a school will pay to get report cards back before the parents call.
- A parent asks under FERPA to see everything you hold on their child, and the records live in five systems and a filing cabinet.
- A Chromebook cart comes back with three devices missing and no record of which student signed out which.
- Substitute teachers share one generic login that has worked since 2019.
- The parent portal goes down on report card night, the one evening every family logs in.
- Classroom projectors, door controllers and the HVAC all sit on the same network as the student information system.
What fits
What we'd fix first for a school
Compliance Management
Ready for FERPA questions from parents and auditors, with a record of who can see each kind of student data. We prepare schools for that scrutiny; we don't certify them.
Read moreManaged Firewalls & Network Security
Projectors, door controllers and building systems on their own segment, so a hacked smart board can't reach the gradebook.
Read moreManaged Detection & Response (MDR)
Somebody watching for ransomware overnight and over the holidays, when nobody in the building is.
Read moreAsset Management
Every Chromebook checked out to a named student, so a missing device has an owner and can be locked remotely.
Read moreIdentity & Access Management (IAM)
Substitutes get their own login for the days they cover, which switches itself off afterwards.
Read moreServer & Infrastructure Management
A parent portal that stays up on report card night, hosted to cope with every family at once.
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Illustrative work
What a job here can look like
Examples of the kind of work we do, written to show its shape. They are not client engagements.
What would a ransomware day cost your school?
Count the lost teaching days as well as the ransom.
We'll tell you how exposed you are and what we'd harden before next term. School budgets don't fit a package, so we quote yours from scratch.
- What we arePlan, create, launch, maintain
- What we areSentrello Premier Partner
- What we areEvery quote written for you