Case Study: San Jacinto Unified School District achieves ransomware protection and $1,000/week labor savings with Malwarebytes

San Jacinto USD closes the book on ransomware

San Jacinto Unified School District (Riverside County, CA) serves about 9,800 students across 13 schools and supports nearly 3,000 Windows PCs plus Chromebooks. Although the district ran Sophos antivirus, advanced threats like exploits and ransomware were getting through, hijacking browsers, spreading to shared drives, and forcing the IT team to spend roughly 10 hours a week remediating infections and re-imaging machines.

The district deployed Malwarebytes Endpoint Security and the Malwarebytes Management Console—piloted in a lab, pushed to more than 2,000 PCs, and integrated with Active Directory—to provide real-time prevention, detection, and remediation. The solution blocked thousands of threats (more than 36,000 in a recent month), simplified endpoint visibility and management, eliminated further ransomware incidents, saved at least $1,000 per week in labor, and freed the IT staff to focus on advancing classroom technology and training.

San Jacinto Unified School District

Chawn Lytle

Director of Technology Services