Case Study: Whittington Green School simplifies IT and boosts security with Heimdal Security

Whittington Green School Simplifies IT & Enhances Security with Heimdal

Whittington Green School, a UK secondary school with around 700 students, 100 staff, and roughly 400 devices, was struggling with rising antivirus costs, limited functionality, and time-consuming manual patch management. Its lean IT team also lacked clear system visibility, and the previous security tool caused disruptive delays and pop-ups that affected teachers’ day-to-day work.

Heimdal Security replaced the school’s former antivirus with a unified platform including Next-Gen Antivirus & Firewall, Patch & Asset Management, Ransomware Encryption Protection, Infinity Management, DNS Security, and Threat Hunting. As a result, Whittington Green School improved update compliance across 400+ devices, reduced manual reboot reminders and software deployment work, gained better visibility and resilience, and delivered a smoother user experience with silent threat blocking and no noticeable file-access delays.

Whittington Green School

Robin Needham

Network Manager