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Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts Removes the Risk Behind Internet Browsing

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts and Education (SBH) was struggling to keep up with the integration of technology in education. As students relied more heavily on computers and the Internet, teachers and administrators noticed much of the activity wasn’t school-related. The existing security was not keeping in lock step with the way students were using the Internet. Viruses had slipped through, and non-education related sites were seeing heavy traffic. Even with URL blocking in place, a supposedly trusted site could be compromised and contain malicious code. A new and inappropriate site could fall through the cracks, not yet blacklisted. Technically-savvy students had already found ways to bypass the school’s defenses. Read More
About Customer	The Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts and Education (SBH) is a charter school located in Wilson, North Carolina, which is about a half hour east of Raleigh. The school serves many underprivileged students who have few creative outlets. The Internet is both a vital learning tool and creative one for the students. The students are doing much more than run-of-the-mill research for reports. They’re calling up reference images for art projects. They’re studying videos of modern dance, and students are using programs like GarageBand to help them compose their own music. Read More
Solution	The school decided to upgrade its security system with BeyondTrust's PowerBroker Endpoint Protection Platform (PBEPP) and Retina CS. PBEPP protects client devices by identifying behaviors, not signatures. Offering integrated multi-layered endpoint protection, PBEPP is a single, lightweight client that replaces multiple security agents, protecting against known exploits, zero-day attacks, and all other attack vectors. Retina CS acts as a central control console and correlation engine – the brains of the operation. With Retina CS in place, PBEPP agents throughout the network can report back and correlate threats, policy abuses, and attack vectors. An intuitive user interface and installation wizard makes monitoring an entire network simple and quick. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts and Education (SBH) was struggling to keep up with the integration of technology in education. As students relied more heavily on computers and the Internet, teachers and administrators noticed much of the activity wasn’t school-related. The existing security was not keeping in lock step with the way students were using the Internet. Viruses had slipped through, and non-education related sites were seeing heavy traffic. Even with URL blocking in place, a supposedly trusted site could be compromised and contain malicious code. A new and inappropriate site could fall through the cracks, not yet blacklisted. Technically-savvy students had already found ways to bypass the school’s defenses.

About Customer

The Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts and Education (SBH) is a charter school located in Wilson, North Carolina, which is about a half hour east of Raleigh. The school serves many underprivileged students who have few creative outlets. The Internet is both a vital learning tool and creative one for the students. The students are doing much more than run-of-the-mill research for reports. They’re calling up reference images for art projects. They’re studying videos of modern dance, and students are using programs like GarageBand to help them compose their own music.

Solution

The school decided to upgrade its security system with BeyondTrust's PowerBroker Endpoint Protection Platform (PBEPP) and Retina CS. PBEPP protects client devices by identifying behaviors, not signatures. Offering integrated multi-layered endpoint protection, PBEPP is a single, lightweight client that replaces multiple security agents, protecting against known exploits, zero-day attacks, and all other attack vectors. Retina CS acts as a central control console and correlation engine – the brains of the operation. With Retina CS in place, PBEPP agents throughout the network can report back and correlate threats, policy abuses, and attack vectors. An intuitive user interface and installation wizard makes monitoring an entire network simple and quick.

Impact #1	The school's infrastructure was updated and patches were deployed.
Impact #2	The workflow was streamlined with centralized administration. Updates and patches were done manually.
Impact #3	Gained visibility into each and every PC through PBEPP.

Impact #1

The school's infrastructure was updated and patches were deployed.

Impact #2

The workflow was streamlined with centralized administration. Updates and patches were done manually.

Impact #3

Gained visibility into each and every PC through PBEPP.

Benefit #1	PBEPP was priced well below the other options the school considered, while offering a much more complete feature set.
Benefit #2	The school also saves money by saving time. The process of patching PCs was centralized.

Benefit #1

PBEPP was priced well below the other options the school considered, while offering a much more complete feature set.

Benefit #2

The school also saves money by saving time. The process of patching PCs was centralized.

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Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts Removes the Risk Behind Internet Browsing

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