Case Study: Cohoes City School District strengthens email encryption and compliance with Virtru

Cohoes City School District Provides Virtru to Teachers, District Admins, HR Teams, and Beyond

Cohoes City School District needed to better secure staff and student personally identifiable information as data theft, phishing, and ransomware increased, while also meeting New York Ed Law 2-D requirements. The district was already moving paper records into digital formats during the pandemic, and it needed a way to protect information shared by teachers, administrators, special education staff, legal teams, nurses, and HR teams.

The district chose Virtru for Google Gmail because it fit directly into email workflows without requiring a separate portal. With Virtru, Cohoes City School District added easy-to-use email and file encryption, supported Ed Law 2-D compliance along with FERPA and HIPAA, and protected sensitive information such as contact tracing records and student IEPs from being stolen or compromised.

Cohoes City School District

Sylvi Joseph

Director of Technology Operations