Case Study: CHSD230 (Consolidated High School District 230) secures hybrid learning and safeguards student data with Virtru

Consolidated High School District 230 Secures Hybrid Schooling with Virtru

Consolidated High School District 230 (CHSD230), a Chicago-area high school district, faced the challenge of protecting student privacy as it shifted many paper-based processes to the cloud and handled increased PHI/PII during hybrid and remote learning. CHSD230 selected Virtru to encrypt and safeguard students’ personal data and to add protections to its primary digital channel, email.

Virtru delivered email and data encryption with access controls that CHSD230 quickly deployed across business services, HR, special education, school nurses, and administrators—scaling licenses from roughly 6 to 100. The Virtru solution enabled secure sharing of IEPs and COVID-19 health information, helped the district meet FERPA, SOPPA, and Illinois School Student Records Act requirements, and provided features like email revocation to reduce the risk of accidental data exposure.

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John Connolly

Chief Technology Officer