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Securing OUSD’s Cloud Mission: Enabling Digital Citizenship and Compliance

CloudLock (Cisco)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Human Resources
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) aspires to “focus on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity.” They recognized cloud technologies as the means to make their vision a reality. However, when looking to adopt cloud applications, OUSD faced four primary cloud cybersecurity challenges: Compliance and Student Privacy Protection, Inappropriate Behavior and Cyberbullying, Suspicious User Behavior and Security Breaches, and Cloud Malware. They needed to protect a high volume of sensitive data, as dictated by a range of compliance regulations, and ensure students are not using digital platforms to engage in inappropriate activities. They also wanted to ensure any potentially anomalous behavior was rapidly identified and addressed. Read More
About Customer	The Oakland Unified School District is a public education school district that operates 100 elementary, middle, and high schools in Oakland California, serving over 37,000 students and nearly 3,900 staff. They serve a high volume of students from a range of economic backgrounds and aspire to “focus on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity.” The Chief Technology Officer, John Krull, recognized cloud technologies as the means to make their vision a reality. Read More
Solution	After evaluating the market, Oakland Unified School District quickly narrowed in on Cisco Cloudlock as the product of choice to realize their vision of a cloud-first organization. Cisco Cloudlock was able to deliver K12 Specific Policies, Next-Gen Cloud DLP, Threat Protection, Superior Time-to-Value, and Extensibility and Scalability. It was able to secure multiple cloud environments and integrate with IT and security tools. It also provided out-of-the-box value in the form of education-specific policies, such as objectionable content and student record detection. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Human Resources

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) aspires to “focus on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity.” They recognized cloud technologies as the means to make their vision a reality. However, when looking to adopt cloud applications, OUSD faced four primary cloud cybersecurity challenges: Compliance and Student Privacy Protection, Inappropriate Behavior and Cyberbullying, Suspicious User Behavior and Security Breaches, and Cloud Malware. They needed to protect a high volume of sensitive data, as dictated by a range of compliance regulations, and ensure students are not using digital platforms to engage in inappropriate activities. They also wanted to ensure any potentially anomalous behavior was rapidly identified and addressed.

About Customer

The Oakland Unified School District is a public education school district that operates 100 elementary, middle, and high schools in Oakland California, serving over 37,000 students and nearly 3,900 staff. They serve a high volume of students from a range of economic backgrounds and aspire to “focus on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity.” The Chief Technology Officer, John Krull, recognized cloud technologies as the means to make their vision a reality.

Solution

After evaluating the market, Oakland Unified School District quickly narrowed in on Cisco Cloudlock as the product of choice to realize their vision of a cloud-first organization. Cisco Cloudlock was able to deliver K12 Specific Policies, Next-Gen Cloud DLP, Threat Protection, Superior Time-to-Value, and Extensibility and Scalability. It was able to secure multiple cloud environments and integrate with IT and security tools. It also provided out-of-the-box value in the form of education-specific policies, such as objectionable content and student record detection.

Impact #1	Superior Digital Citizenship: Using Cisco Cloudlock to detect the usage of objectionable language and evidence of questionable behavior and cyberbullying in real time gives school administrators a considerable advantage in combating malicious student behavior.
Impact #2	Improved Security and Compliance Posture: Being able to instantly surface excessively exposed sensitive information is a huge advantage for the team. Account-level security capabilities afford OUSD the ability to detect compromised accounts, while geolocation based anomaly detection alerts security staff to the use of proxy-anonymizer tools.
Impact #3	Control Over Third-Party Cloud Applications: With Cisco Cloudlock’s Community Trust Rating, the largest peer-driven security assessment of cloud apps, OUSD security staff can efficiently evaluate student- and staff-enabled cloud applications, and subsequently exercise control over them.

Impact #1

Superior Digital Citizenship: Using Cisco Cloudlock to detect the usage of objectionable language and evidence of questionable behavior and cyberbullying in real time gives school administrators a considerable advantage in combating malicious student behavior.

Impact #2

Improved Security and Compliance Posture: Being able to instantly surface excessively exposed sensitive information is a huge advantage for the team. Account-level security capabilities afford OUSD the ability to detect compromised accounts, while geolocation based anomaly detection alerts security staff to the use of proxy-anonymizer tools.

Impact #3

Control Over Third-Party Cloud Applications: With Cisco Cloudlock’s Community Trust Rating, the largest peer-driven security assessment of cloud apps, OUSD security staff can efficiently evaluate student- and staff-enabled cloud applications, and subsequently exercise control over them.

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Securing OUSD’s Cloud Mission: Enabling Digital Citizenship and Compliance

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