Colorado’s Largest High School Uses Absolute to Reduce Total Device Loss by 50%, Expand Security, Visibility and Cyber Resilience in Fleet of Hybrid Lenovo Devices
SEATTLE, April 4, 2024—(BUSINESS WIRE)–Absolute Software, a global leader in enterprise cyber resilience, today announced that GOAL High School, a multi-district public charter school, has selected Absolute Cyber Resilience capabilities to achieve visibility, deploy security and expand cyber resilience across its fleet of endpoint devices serving more than 6,000 hybrid and remote students.
GOAL is the largest high school in Colorado. Every year, he delivers the devices to each of his students across the state. After previously using Chromebooks and transitioning to Microsoft Windows devices, the facility needed to find a solution that would allow them to monitor, manage, control and freeze devices when needed. After evaluating recommended vendors from their vendor, GOAL High School decided that Absolute Secure Endpoint would be the best solution to address this challenge.
“Modern education requires schools to provide compelling opportunities for students who need to learn through a hybrid model that relies on digital tools that span distance and on-site learning. This new paradigm presents cybersecurity and compliance challenges that all educational institutions must address ,” said Jamie Truillo, Chief Information Officer (CIO), GOAL High School. “We chose Absolute over competitors to give us the visibility, control and resiliency needed not only to protect our investment in thousands of distributed laptops, but also to provide the security and resiliency needed to deliver seamless engagement for our students.”
Along with the benefits of security, compliance and resilience, Absolute has provided GOAL High School with:
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Reduction of device losses from 15% to 5%, with a total loss reduction of 50%.
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Track and locate missing devices, inside or outside campus networks
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Remote wipe and freeze capabilities for at-risk devices
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Monitoring the behavior of critical applications
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Visibility across the entire device fleet
“Schools have accelerated technology programs to support hybrid learning during the pandemic, but we’ve all seen the news about how management challenges have resulted in device loss rates of up to 30 percent,” said Warren Young, vice president of education, Absolute Software. “Schools using the Absolute experience have significantly improved device retention rates, which can result in millions of dollars worth of returned devices for districts.”
As a partner of more than 28 of the world’s leading device manufacturers, the Absolute Cyber Resilience platform is embedded in the firmware of 600 million endpoints, trusted by more than 21,000 global business and government customers, and licensed to more than 14 million users. With Cyber Resilience integrated into the foundation of their digital enterprises, customers ensure that their mobile and hybrid workforces connect seamlessly and securely from anywhere, security controls work as intended, and business operations can quickly resume full operational performance after cyber incidents. attacks. Our award-winning Cyber Resilience capabilities have earned recognition and leadership status in multiple technology categories, including Endpoint Security, Security Services Edge (SSE), Firmware-Embedded Persistence and Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA).
To learn more about how Absolute is helping GOAL High School, read the case study.
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