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Ivanti leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to be able to synthesize a vast amount of data from sensors, scanners and other software. Our solutions remediate ever-evolving threats, detect anomalies and react to policy violations in components or hardware about to fail or showing signs of failure. Then we’re able to remediate those possible problems through an automated service management platform — long before a human would know to intervene.
One outcome is that schools with constrained IT resources can do more by becoming as efficient as possible. More importantly, the “now everywhere” district gains the ability to secure itself and be protected against ransomware and other threats while still allowing the teaching and learning to continue. And after all, that is the ultimate end point.
Bill Harrod is the Public Sector CTO at Ivanti, joining as part of the MobileIron acquisition. He is an accomplished information security executive and cybersecurity professional with experience managing cybersecurity risk and designing and delivering security solutions to higher education, federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies.
Endpoint Protection in Action
Like so many other districts in the country, a big school system in Texas had a large number of students who lacked access to the internet. To fill the gap when those kids were sent home for their learning, the district acquired a multitude of inexpensive Android phones to use for mobile hotspots. Using Ivanti MobileIron Mobile Device Management, IT locked down the phones to prevent them from being used for any other purpose. Thus, the district was able to get a lot of kids online quickly and cost-effectively. Every time one
of those phones begins to connect, Ivanti’s tool confirms that the devices connecting to it haven’t been tampered with and that they’re in compliance with the district usage policies.
Another district rolled out iPads early in the pandemic, but without any way of managing those devices. IT adopted Ivanti MobileIron Unified Endpoint Management, which helped ensure the devices are up-to-date, that the applications are approved, and that the data and resources being used remain secure. The tool provides native management of Apple technologies and enables IT to preconfigure iPads for elementary and middle school students and teachers, with the appropriate permissions, applications and folders. This eliminates downtime in the classroom stemming from configuration hassles.
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