Case Study: Indianapolis Public Schools achieves rapid ransomware recovery and stronger security with PowerSchool Cloud-Based Hosting

Putting Student Resource Needs First IPS Chooses PowerSchool Allovue

Indianapolis Public Schools faced a ransomware attack in spring 2020 that wiped its on-premises server drives and threatened district operations. IPS was already using several PowerSchool products, including PowerSchool SIS and Schoology Learning, but needed a faster way to restore systems and a more secure long-term hosting solution.

PowerSchool’s Cloud-Based Hosting and backup cloud-hosted server got IPS’s applications restored within two hours of the attack being identified, with minimal disruption to students and staff. The district then permanently moved all applications to PowerSchool’s cloud, reducing risk, improving data security, lowering costs and staff workload, and avoiding millions in potential downtime and recovery losses.

Indianapolis Public Schools