Case Study: East Prairie School District #73 improves data security and saves time with ManagedMethods Cloud Monitor

East Prairie School District Mitigates Third-party Risk With Automated Cloud Security

East Prairie School District #73, a small school district with limited IT staff, faced significant challenges in securing its Google Workspace for Education environment. The district needed to comply with the SOPPA data privacy law and gain visibility into risky third-party app usage, a difficult task with Google's native, time-consuming admin tools. This led them to seek a solution from the vendor, ManagedMethods.

By implementing ManagedMethods' Cloud Monitor platform, the district automated its security monitoring and gained immediate insights. The solution quickly identified critical risks, including unauthorized student app installations and a staff member's improperly shared file containing sensitive data. ManagedMethods provided a huge time savings for the small IT team, streamlined compliance reporting, and ultimately improved student safety and data security, which the director described as being "worth its weight in gold."

East Prairie School District #73

Rich Chiuppi

Director of Technology