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