Case Study: Cedar Crest College strengthens security and avoids insurance premium hikes with ClassLink MFA

Cedar Crest College avoids a costly insurance premium hike with ClassLink

Cedar Crest College, a higher education institution, faced a significant challenge when their cybersecurity insurance auditor mandated immediate multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) implementation across all platforms. Faced with a dramatic premium increase, the college needed to compress a multi-year security modernization plan into just weeks. Their Director of IT also needed to enforce strong, consistent MFA on applications that lacked it or only offered weaker forms of authentication.

ClassLink provided the solution with its MFA and SSO platform, LaunchPad. This allowed Cedar Crest to place all resources behind strong MFA, satisfying the insurance audit and avoiding a costly premium hike. ClassLink also enabled the college to add MFA to applications that did not natively offer it. The financial impact was significant, as Sarte estimated ClassLink's solution cost roughly 20 to 25 percent less than assembling comparable tools from separate vendors. Furthermore, ClassLink's support team built custom SSO connectors at no extra charge, ensuring no application was left outside the security perimeter.

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