Case study · Education

Ransomware resilience for a multi-campus school group

A growing school group with several campuses ran flat networks shared by staff, students and building systems. Backups were online and reachable from the domain, and phishing emails regularly reached teachers and finance staff.

The challenge

What was at stake

A growing school group with several campuses ran flat networks shared by staff, students and building systems. Backups were online and reachable from the domain, and phishing emails regularly reached teachers and finance staff.

The organisation needed a partner that could understand its environment quickly, prioritise the risks that mattered most and deliver measurable improvement without disrupting day-to-day operations.

Our approach

What we did

  1. Ransomware readiness assessment across campuses
  2. Segmented staff, student, guest and building-management networks
  3. Deployed immutable backups and tested restores for the student information system
  4. Rolled out MFA for staff and administrators
  5. Launched age-appropriate and staff awareness programmes
Outcomes

The results

70%

reduction in phishing click rate

<4h

tested restore time for critical systems

100%

staff accounts protected by MFA

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