Case Study: Central State University safeguards student data across departments with Virtru

From the Medical Center to the Athletics Department, Central State University Safeguards Student Data with Virtru

Central State University faced the challenge of protecting sensitive student, medical, and athletics data without disrupting long-established faculty and staff workflows — and wanted to avoid expensive, clunky alternatives like traditional fax lines. To solve this, the university selected Virtru to add an intuitive layer of encryption integrated directly into Microsoft 365/Outlook so doctors, coaches, faculty, and administrators could securely share information while preserving existing habits.

Virtru’s Outlook encryption gave Central State University in‑message controls (including revocation and access time limits), a seamless recipient experience, and flexible licensing so IT could scale deployment as demand grew. The result: the solution rolled out from a single medical user to multiple doctors, nursing staff, athletics, administration, and finance teams, increasing the frequency of protected communications, reducing reliance on legacy fax workflows, and strengthening FERPA‑compliant data protection across the campus.

Central State University

Showkat Choudhury

Chief Information Officer