Case Study: Lone Star College System achieves faster vulnerability detection and remediation with Rapid7 Nexpose

Nexpose Identifies Vulnerabilities, Assists Remediation at LoneStar College System

LoneStar College System, a Texas community college serving over 90,000 students across five campuses and 14 datacenters, faced limited visibility into its distributed IT environment—more than 900 physical and virtual servers—and struggled to turn external security assessments into actionable remediation, while needing to demonstrate compliance with regulations like FERPA and HIPAA.

Deploying Rapid7 Nexpose Enterprise provided immediate value: automated weekly scans across all datacenters, clear, prioritized remediation guidance, and integration into weekly workflows. Within a month Nexpose helped the team fix numerous vulnerabilities, improve staff productivity, support compliance reporting, and establish a stronger, more manageable security posture aligned with ISO 27000 goals.

Lone Star College

Link Alander

Vice Chancellor & Chief Information Officer