Bellevue School District

Industry: Education/ Government

Location: United States

Products used: Websense Web Security

Bellevue School District Safeguards Student Web Access and Boosts Productivity with Websense

 

 

It’s nice to be able to fire up the Websense dashboard and quickly glance at which services are down, what’s working, or whether there’s a huge spike in traffic, and to be able to see that very, very quickly.

Mark Choi, Manager of Instructional Technology, Bellevue School District

Challenge

  • Bellevue School District needed to efficiently manage a network of interconnected server farms, databases, centralized applications, and telecommunications infrastructure for a school system with more than 16,000 students and 2,000 staff.
  • They needed to monitor student activity and run productivity groups while efficiently protecting computer systems from external and internal risks.
  • They had limited security and very technically oriented kids with a lot of time on their hands who were going everywhere and doing everything on the network.
  • They wanted to have control over the networks so they could make sure that inappropriate material and malicious content was kept out.

 

Solution

  • Bellevue School District contacted other districts to see what they were using and hear of Websense solutions, so they got a demo of the product and said, ‘That’s it, it’s perfect.’
  • They deployed Websense Web Security, consolidating their 27 computers into one streamlined, comprehensive security system.
  • Using the Websense Web Security simple interface, detailed traffic logs, and reporting, the school district kept student web indiscretion to a bare minimum.
  • Websense Web Security also protected their 18,000 users from spyware, malicious mobile code, phishing attacks, bots, and other threats, within minutes of discovery.

 

Results

  • Bellevue School District has dramatically improved productivity by extending their security policy management and administrator controls to additional IT staff members.
  • "It was very reassuring that I could just pick up the phone and call someone at Websense to get help right away and get a problem resolved within a reasonable amount of time. Everyone I spoke with was very knowledgeable of the product and had an intelligent answer,” said Choi.