Case Study: Public High School District achieves secure BYOD Wi‑Fi onboarding with SecureW2 JoinNow

School District Takes Network Security To The Next Level

A public high school district in the Chicago area faced the challenge of securing its Wi-Fi network after students repeatedly shared passwords for its pre-shared key system. They needed a user-friendly and affordable BYOD onboarding solution to replace this with secure, certificate-backed 802.1X authentication for thousands of diverse student and staff devices without overburdening its IT help desk. The district discovered and chose SecureW2 to address this issue.

SecureW2 implemented its JoinNow MultiOS solution, an onboarding application that automatically detects a device's operating system and configures it for certificate-based WPA2-Enterprise network access without any complex manual input from the user. This allowed students and staff to connect their personal devices securely in under a minute. For the school district, the solution from SecureW2 freed up precious IT resources and countless hours that were previously spent on connecting users and troubleshooting, ensuring quick and secure BYOD onboarding.