Case Study: St Catherine’s School stops ransomware and eliminates system re-imaging with Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection

St Catherine’s School replaces Sophos with Malwarebytes

St Catherine’s School, a leading girls’ school in Toorak, Melbourne, manages nearly 700 endpoints across a four‑person ICT team supporting both Windows and Mac users. The school’s previous Sophos antivirus repeatedly missed malspam, malvertising, phishing, ransomware and multi‑stage malware, leaving devices infected and forcing staff to spend a full day re‑imaging each compromised system.

After trialing Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection, the school replaced Sophos with the cloud‑based solution and deployed it to all systems within a week. Malwarebytes uncovered and removed thousands of PUPs/PUMs and malware incidents, blocked multiple ransomware attempts, eliminated the need for routine re‑imaging, and gave the ICT team centralized, hands‑off visibility and policy control—freeing staff to focus on education rather than firefighting.

St. Catherine’s School

John Toulantas

ICT Manager