Case Study: St. Louis Public Schools

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St. Louis Public Schools’ network security was being threatened by spyware and spam. The district’s IT department needed a solution offering complete protection and manageability for over 33,000 users. After evaluating a number of leading security vendors, the schools’ IT team chose Sophos to protect its IT infrastructure. Download now

"Sophos stood out with its detection rates, and the technical support before and after the purchase was fantastic"
Thomas Randolph — IT Director, St. Louis Public Schools

Fact file

Sector: K-12 Education
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Environment: 33,000+ students across 93 locations
Solution: Endpoint Security and Control 
Sophos ES4000 Email Appliance and Sophos PureMessage for Exchange, both part of
Email Security and Control

Business challenge

  • The schools wanted to keep their network safe and productive for students, teachers and administrators.
  • The schools needed to stop students, teachers and administrators from inadvertently inviting malicious malware and spam emails onto the network.

Technology solution

  • Sophos Endpoint Security and Control provides protection across the schools' entire infrastructure.
  • The Sophos email security suite comprising Sophos ES4000 Email Appliance and Sophos PureMessage for Exchange was added.

Business results

  • Randolph and his team now manage the network’s endpoint computers from one central console a significant benefit.
  • Since implementing Sophos’s email security suite, the public schools have been protected against spam and email-borne threats.

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