Case Study: Cleveland Metropolitan School District achieves 24x7 monitoring and improved security posture with Arctic Wolf Networks

Arctic Wolf’s Comprehensive Partnership Secures School District’s 24x7 Learning Environment

Cleveland Metropolitan School District, which serves over 36,000 students and 7,500 employees, faced widening security gaps after moving to a cloud-first, always-on learning environment, lacked 24x7 monitoring, and had a time- and resource-constrained cybersecurity team. To address these challenges the district engaged Arctic Wolf, initially deploying Arctic Wolf Managed Risk to shore up vulnerabilities and map its evolving attack surface.

Arctic Wolf implemented Managed Risk, Managed Detection and Response, and ongoing support from its Security Teams (including an Incident Response JumpStart retainer), delivering continuous vulnerability remediation, 24x7 monitoring, and guided remediations. As a result, the district gained broad visibility into networks and cloud assets, fixed issues such as a Microsoft Defender configuration gap, achieved continual security posture improvements, and realized operational benefits like stronger insurance positioning and around-the-clock threat detection through Arctic Wolf.

Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Curtis Timmons

Chief Information Officer