Case Study: Buena Vista University achieves 100% Dashlane adoption across 29+ departments

The Cybersecurity Strategy Buena Vista University Used to Secure 29+ Departments

Buena Vista University, a private higher-education institution with 1,959 students and 300 employees, needed a better way to engage its highly mobile campus community in cybersecurity. With frequent onboarding and offboarding across students, faculty, and staff, CIO Joe McLain wanted a password management approach that would increase awareness and personal accountability without feeling invasive. Dashlane’s password management platform was selected to help the university support secure habits while keeping the experience simple and user-friendly.

Dashlane was rolled out first through a small pilot, then expanded across 29+ departments as more people saw the value of the tool. The university reached 100% adoption among everyone introduced to Dashlane, and early use also revealed compromised student passwords, helping raise awareness of risk. Dashlane’s zero-knowledge security, password vault, secure sharing, Dark Web Monitoring, and admin controls helped Buena Vista University improve password health, support continuity planning, and make cybersecurity more practical for the campus community.

Buena Vista University

Joe McLain

Chief Information Officer