Case Study THE CHALLENGE With classrooms increasingly depending on computers, online lesson plans and other resources going off-line can disrupt teaching. Newport News Public Schools (NNPS) was learning this the hard way as their Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection and Windows Defender Antivirus solutions were not consistently keeping out ransomware and other threats. Supporting 42 schools at NNPS, a lean technology team faced a monthly work list of about 100 security issues. Teachers would lose their affected workstations for up to a week. Endpoint reporting also was limited, making it difficult to develop a proactive cybersecurity stance. NNPS consulted with analyst firm Gartner to help evaluate solutions offered by Trend Micro, Symantec, Bitdefender, and other security v

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