Fresno Unified School District Secures 100,000 Devices with Absolute Resilience
February 03 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Third-largest school district in California
leverages unique geo-location technology and undeletable tether to
every school-issued endpoint to quickly locate at-risk youth
Absolute Software™ (NASDAQ: ABST) (TSX: ABST), a leader in
Endpoint Resilience™ solutions, today announced Fresno Unified
School District (USD) is using the Absolute Resilience™ platform.
With an unbreakable digital tether to all school-issued devices,
Fresno USD is equipped with complete visibility and control,
real-time insights into the state and location of more than 100,000
devices, and the ability to automatically self-heal security
controls to ensure the security and digital integrity of their
distance learning program.
As the third largest school district in California, today Fresno
USD manages and secures devices that are distributed to more than
74,000 students across 66 elementary schools, 15 middle schools,
and 9 high schools. The central California district originally
turned to Absolute Software to track and trace approximately 20,000
Windows mobile devices; the Absolute platform provided visibility
as to where those devices were at any time, and the ability to
remotely lock them if they fell into the wrong hands. But when the
district-owned fleet of devices increased, it became challenging
for IT to continue maintaining an accurate device inventory.
Even before March 2020, Fresno Unified’s sense of urgency to
account for all devices was growing significantly, since the
district had rolled out a 1:1 program that included more than
75,000 devices - 10,000 of which were for teachers and
administrators. When the pandemic hit, the district - like so many
others across the nation - needed to swiftly add another 25,000
devices to ensure every student was equally equipped with a laptop
and could securely participate in the district’s remote learning
program.
“We started using Absolute reporting as a sanity check against
our physical inventorying,” said Kurt Madden, CTO of Fresno USD.
“Some schools would say they had run out of devices, but we knew
from the Absolute report that they had hundreds of laptops. We
would go room to room at the school site and find them – saving us
from buying hundreds of devices we didn’t actually need to
purchase. Today, the Absolute report is our inventory.”
To ensure their mission-critical applications like Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs) remain healthy and working as intended, the
Fresno USD IT team relies on the self-healing capabilities enabled
by Absolute's patented Persistence® technology. And with no
physical access to remote devices, the team is able to mitigate
vulnerabilities in a timely manner and automate fixes using
Absolute Reach® - a querying tool that includes a library of more
than 130 custom workflows, and allows IT to take widespread
remedial action even when devices are off the school network.
Ensuring the safety and well-being of their 74,000 student body
is also one of the district’s highest priorities. With an
undeletable digital tether to every device, school officials are
able to help parents quickly locate runaway kids who took their
school-issued laptop with them, ensuring they are protected from
any potential harm.
“Fresno USD, like so many K-12 districts across the country, has
faced enormous challenges this school year, and we are honored to
be a key partner in helping them overcome these challenges,” said
Warren Young, AVP of Education at Absolute Software. “Their
commitment to keeping students and staff connected, secure, and
productive in the wake of a sudden and seismic transition to
distance learning has been nothing short of remarkable, and we look
forward to working side-by-side as they navigate continued
uncertainty.”
Additionally, the community knows about the undeletable tether
on school-owned devices - and that knowledge reduces theft. Many
other devices have been recovered from computer sales stores,
airports, and e-commerce websites thanks to the automated message
that pops up explaining the device’s real owner when a machine is
rebooted.
From device tracking and locating students to persisting key
applications in the era of remote learning, Fresno USD has seen
significant ROI with Absolute.
“Absolute continues to innovate and provide the services we
need,” said Madden. “It’s a long-term partnership, and we look
forward to many more years as an Absolute customer.”
To download the full case study, visit here. To learn more about
Absolute Software, visit www.absolute.com.
About Absolute Software
Absolute Software is a leader in Endpoint Resilience solutions
and the industry’s only undeletable defense platform embedded in
over a half-billion devices. Enabling a permanent digital tether
between the endpoint and the enterprise who distributed it,
Absolute provides IT and Security organizations with complete
connectivity, visibility, and control, whether a device is on or
off the corporate network, and empowers them with Self-Healing
Endpoint™ security to ensure mission-critical apps remain healthy
and deliver intended value. For the latest information, visit
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