Case Study: Public School Systems strengthen security and prevent risk with Flashpoint

How Flashpoint Helps to Protect One of the Largest Public School Systems in the U.S.

The customer, one of the largest public school systems in the U.S., needed to strengthen its cyber and physical security capabilities to protect its network of over 200 schools. Its challenges included monitoring threat actors, preventing account takeovers (ATO), and protecting its brand from impersonation and phishing attacks. To address these challenges, the school system partnered with Flashpoint for its cyber threat intelligence platform and services.

Flashpoint provided the solution by enabling the security team to identify exposed school-affiliated email accounts to prevent ATO and to detect fake social media accounts and phishing domains through its Intelligence Platform. The results included the ability to quickly detect malicious activity, set up custom alerts, and prioritize remediation efforts. Flashpoint's intelligence helped the team separate real threats from noise, allowing them to rapidly mitigate risk and implement standard operating procedures for a collaborative response with law enforcement when needed.