Case Study: Pickens County School District saves a student’s life with Securly

Pickens County School District saves a student’s life with Securly across 20,000 devices

Pickens County School District, a large South Carolina district with over 16,300 students, faced significant tech challenges. Their appliance-based web filtering was cumbersome to manage, bogging down IT with manual requests and causing traffic bottlenecks. They partnered with the vendor Securly to address these issues.

Securly implemented its cloud-based web filtering and safety solutions. This eliminated hardware maintenance, streamlined management, and freed up IT staff. Most importantly, Securly's social media monitoring identified a student contemplating suicide via a single Facebook post, enabling a timely intervention that saved the student's life. The solution also delegated filtering management and increased awareness of student safety risks.

Pickens County School District