CASE STUDY
Hear from a Peer: Protecting Student and Staff Data in Schools
"Just being able to hit ‘compose’ on your email and type away as you normally would, or send attachments as you normally would, and then just hit the little radio button to encrypt your message… That's what I think made it attractive to us."
Sylvi Joseph
Director of Technology
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Background
Schools are stewards of immensely valuable student, faculty, and staff data—much of which falls under regulations like HIPAA, FERPA, and state regulations like New York Ed Law 2-d.
In this conversation, Sylvi Joseph, Director of Technology Operations for Cohoes City School District in Upstate New York, shares with Virtru's Brett McCrae, Senior Director of Customer Success, how he manages data and technology for his school district, and why he chose Virtru.
If you'd like to explore how Virtru can support your school data security posture, contact our team for a demo. We'd love to show you what Virtru can do.
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Brett McCrae: What was it about Virtru, Sylvi, that made it the choice that you decided to go with?
Sylvi Joseph: I think just ease of use more than anything, Virtru was seamless. The other platforms had a separate portal that you would have to log into or it would open up a separate email window, not necessarily within your Outlook client or in this case, it's Gmail, just being compose on your email and type away as you normally would, or send attachments as you normally would, and then just hit the little radio button to encrypt your message.
That's what I think made it attractive for us. And it's something that we put out to our users, at least a few key stakeholders in the beginning, testing the different platforms and Virtru was, by far, the winner.
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