Case Study: Council Rock School District achieves unified security visibility and faster threat detection with AT&T Cybersecurity

Overcoming Challenges of IT Security in K-12 Environments

Council Rock School District, the 12th largest district in Pennsylvania with 18 buildings and over 13,000 users, relied on a single security officer to protect its network. Understaffed and budget-constrained, the district was juggling an unmanageable number of point products and open-source tools, making unified visibility, timely threat detection, and vendor support major challenges.

The district consolidated security with AlienVault’s OSSIM and then upgraded to the fully supported AlienVault USM, a quick migration that delivered integrated asset discovery, IDS, vulnerability assessment, reporting, and threat intelligence from AlienVault Labs. The result: faster, more effective alarm prioritization via the cyber kill chain view, daily monitoring with fewer false positives, easier detection of emerging threats without custom rules, and stronger justification for a paid, supported solution — making the security officer the go-to resource for other districts.

Council Rock School District

Matthew J. Frederickson

Council Rock School District