Case Study: Niagara Catholic District School Board achieves two-hour ransomware recovery and stronger security with PowerSchool Cloud Hosting

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Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), the largest district in Indiana serving 30,000 students across 77 schools with 5,000 staff, faced a spring 2020 ransomware attack that wiped their on‑premises server drives. Although IPS already used multiple PowerSchool products, the breach disrupted critical systems and created an urgent need for fast recovery and a long‑term solution to reduce cybersecurity risk.

Using PowerSchool’s backup emergency cloud‑hosted server, IPS had applications restored and functioning within two hours of detection, with minimal impact on students and staff. IPS then permanently migrated all systems to PowerSchool Cloud Hosting, gaining improved security, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring, 99.9% Azure reliability, lower costs and staff workload, and expanded use of additional PowerSchool platforms.

Niagara Catholic District School Board

Ted Farrell

Niagara Catholic District School Board