Case Study: South Staffordshire College achieves continuous, automated penetration testing and stronger security resilience with Pentera

South Staffordshire College - Customer Case Study

South Staffordshire College, a further education provider serving over 11,000 students across 4 campuses with 600 staff, faced security blindspots from infrequent annual penetration tests, disordered patching and remediation, and a small IT team with many responsibilities. To close those gaps the college deployed Pentera’s automated penetration testing platform to enable continuous, on‑demand validation of their network and surface the most critical exposures.

Pentera runs demand‑on or daily automated pen tests, producing clear dashboards and a security‑resilience score for the Board, and integrates with existing tools like Darktrace and F‑Secure Radar. Pentera uncovered concrete issues (including a misapplied group password policy), enabled prioritized remediation and weekly patching via Ivanti, increased team efficiency and independence, and delivered measurable benefits — strengthened password policies, ongoing real‑time validation, and cost savings by replacing multiple annual tests with continuous automated assessments.

South Staffordshire College

Jason Whitaker

IT Director