Back online by noon - why Spring Branch ISD went all-in on Everpure after CrowdStrike

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Spring Branch Independent School District sits in an affluent stretch of west Houston. The district educates 31,000 students across 46 campuses and 57 buildings, and employs around 6,000 full-time, part-time and contract staff. It is split by what locals call the I-10 divide - where the district is more than half economically disadvantaged with the affluent north and a poorer south on either side of the line. The District’s Executive Director of Cybersecurity and Technology, Troy Neal, said:

All schools and programs are the same, which is the best part about Spring Branch.

Neal runs infrastructure and security with a team of 12, supporting 4,000 access points, 500 switches and some 80,000 devices - from iPads and Chromebooks to Windows machines and servers. The estate runs out of a tier-four colocation facility in west Houston, with a disaster recovery site in a newly opened district building. An interesting anecdote: Michael...

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