El Rancho Unified School District, a K–12 district in Pico Rivera, California, replaced an outdated antivirus setup that caused 15–20 minute startup delays, poorly timed scans, and user-installed freeware bloat across thousands of devices. Facing a tight summer window, the small IT team evaluated endpoint tools and chose Bitdefender GravityZone for its simplicity and centralized management, then removed legacy Symantec and Microsoft Defender deployments, reconnected 4,500+ devices into a single domain, and rolled out GravityZone from one console. Results included startup times cut to five minutes or less, an estimated 300% performance improvement, elimination of virus/malware/intrusion incidents, and trouble calls dropping from 5–10 per day to near zero, with ticket resolution reduced to u

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