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and so they’ll do what’s easiest and what’s convenient, but not necessarily what’s most secure. Striking the right balance among ease-of-use, access and security will always be something that districts struggle with.
Fourth, choose providers that can help you lessen the work burden. For example, HPE’s GreenLake Central provides a front end that operates between the district and its various cloud providers — both the public clouds operated by Google, Amazon and Microsoft and the private clouds running virtually in your own data center or externally. GreenLake is built on the world’s most secure servers. We are responsible for securing all the virtual machines, the containers, the hypervisors and everything else that’s related.
To further enhance this security, HPE has added Aurora to its Greenlake Managed Services. Aurora extends the security of the “Worlds Most Secure Industry Standard Server” to all of the hosted applications and workloads, including VMs and containers. With this service enabled, the ability to detect malicious activity has been greatly enhanced and automatic recovery allows a hosted server, application or workload
to be restored in minutes. In addition, this detection is not limited to boot: Applications are monitored while the server is running and any unwanted activity will allow the application
to restored immediately.
The benefits are many. GreenLake uses a consumption-
based model, which helps avoid heavy upfront costs and pricey over-provisioning; scaling is simple; and you maintain self-service agility for deploying resources, reviewing spend and forecasting capacity. Or you can choose to offload the effort with GreenLake management services, which handles the routine IT work: monitoring, operations, administration, optimization and nearly continuous improvement.
Don’t Let Your District Be the Next Victim
School leaders need to be cognizant of the fact that their own district could easily be the next ransomware victim. It’s time for them to open their eyes to the risks the district faces and start moving in increments to provide a safer online environment for the school community. There are plenty of sources for getting the help that’s needed.
James Morrison is a distinguished technologist in cybersecurity for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to working with HPE, he served 22 years in the U.S. government, including a lengthy period with the Federal Bureau of Investigation working as a computer scientist, among other roles.
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