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absolute.com Endpoint Security 101: How Wichita State University Secures Devices and Data CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY BACKGROUND Wichita State University (WSU) is a public post-secondary institution serving more than 15,000 students. The university has experienced significant growth in recent years, creating IT and security challenges. Managing the IT infrastructure for the entire campus and keeping the university’s device population secure are top priorities. RESULTS Track and Manage Assets Secure Endpoints and Enhance Data Meet and Maintain Compliance INDUSTRY EDUCATION PLATFORM CHALLENGE A recent audit of WSU by the State of Kansas put a spotlight on a number of potential data security policy and procedure improvements that would need to be implemented to better protect the school’s device population. The IT team needed a solution that would help them: • Better manage the university-owned endpoints in their fleet • Gain visibility into where devices went once they left the university network perimeter • Track lost or stolen devices and wipe data stored on them • Verify regulatory compliance standards are met and maintained WSU gains endpoint visibility and control to identify sensitive information and maintain compliance. SOLUTION By activating Absolute on thousands of its devices, the IT team could see their entire device population to remove blind spots, track and trace missing laptops, and take immediate action to remediate issues.
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Endpoint Security 101: How Wichita State University Secures Devices and Data
C U S T O M E R S U C C E S S S T O R Y
BACKGROUND
Wichita State University (WSU) is a
public post-secondary institution
serving more than 15,000 students.
The university has experienced
significant growth in recent years,
creating IT and security challenges.
Managing the IT infrastructure for
the entire campus and keeping
the university’s device population
secure are top priorities.
RESULTS
Track and Manage Assets
Secure Endpoints and Enhance Data
Meet and Maintain Compliance
INDUSTRY EDUCATION
PLATFORM
CHALLENGEA recent audit of WSU by the State of Kansas put a spotlight on a number of potential data security policy and procedure improvements that would need to be implemented to better protect the school’s device population. The IT team needed a solution that would help them:
• Better manage the university-owned endpoints in their fleet
• Gain visibility into where devices went once they left the university network perimeter
• Track lost or stolen devices and wipe data stored on them
• Verify regulatory compliance standards are met and maintained
WSU gains endpoint visibility and control to identify sensitive information and maintain compliance.
SOLUTIONBy activating Absolute on thousands of its devices, the IT team could see
their entire device population to remove blind spots, track and trace missing
laptops, and take immediate action to remediate issues.
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Absolute’s Application Persistence® allows the IT team to fortify existing
security controls and demonstrate that the university is meeting and
maintaining compliance standards with the Office for Civil Rights, Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard (PCI DSS) standards.
In addition, WSU harnessed the automation capabilities of Absolute to help
create efficiencies for their own team, their device population and security
program.
RESULTSAbsolute gives WSU’s IT team the ability to manage and secure their entire
endpoint population and visibility into devices regardless of location.
They can identify and remediate sensitive data (PHI and PCI) on endpoints
with automated response, device freeze, and containment. Absolute’s
Persistence technology also ensures the ability to self-heal applications.
Absolute is used to deploy and confirm full disk encryption which has helped
WSU gain and maintain ongoing compliance. They have also achieved
efficiencies with automated, ongoing validation of data protection.
Learn how to protect your students and staff by safeguarding your assets
with Absolute, visit: absolute.com/compliance
C U S T O M E R S U C C E S S S T O R Y : ENDPOINT SECURITY 101 : HOW WSU SECURES DEVICES AND DATA
“We’ve had success with detecting
laptops that have ‘walked off’ of
campus, and using Absolute to detect
and remediate [those potential security
threats].”
STEVE WILL IAMS,
MANAGER, IT OPERATIONS, KCOM
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