Case Study: San Felipe Del Rio CISD achieves rapid ransomware recovery and fast, reliable backups with Dell Technologies PowerProtect Cyber Recovery

San Felipe Del Rio CISD - Customer Case Study

San Felipe Del Rio CISD, a K–12 district serving about 10,000 students and 1,500 employees across 17 campuses, faced two ransomware attacks that encrypted databases, file shares and key systems. To harden its environment and protect sensitive student and staff data, the district turned to Dell Technologies for a comprehensive cyber resiliency and data protection platform, including Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, Dell PowerProtect DP series appliances, the Dell Data Protection Suite with Avamar, and Dell VxRail.

Dell Technologies implemented an air‑gapped PowerProtect Cyber Recovery vault (with separate credentials and multi‑factor authentication), DP series backup appliances and Avamar software to simplify backups and enable fast restores. As a result, San Felipe Del Rio CISD can complete daily backups typically in two hours or less, recover lost files quickly, and — after the second attack — was back online in about four hours instead of weeks, demonstrating clear, measurable improvement in recovery time thanks to Dell Technologies.

San Felipe Del Rio CISD

Gilberto Vazquez

Network Administrator