K-12. Protect Your Students, Data, and IT Budget Barracuda Solutions for Education

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1 K-12 Protect Your Students, Data, and IT Budget Barracuda Solutions for Education

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3 Overview The constant changes in technology can be overwhelming for schools. The increasing adoption of online learning, mobile device initiatives, and cloud-based tools are transforming education, while also opening the door for sophisticated threats. These rapid changes require schools to find a new way to develop and manage their IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, most traditional IT providers offer insufficient ways to solve these new and ever-evolving IT obstacles. And even though there are a few providers that meet a school s specific IT need, they lack the track record and depth of experience that schools count on. With such limitations and uncertainty, where do the under-resourced IT departments turn for help? Barracuda Networks offers best-of-breed solutions to maintain a safe, secure, productive, and thriving educational environment. Barracuda works with thousands of schools and school districts all over the world, with a proven track record of helping schools face their IT problems head on and with confidence.

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5 Web Security Safe and Productive Online Learning As schools move curriculum and materials to a digital, online world, managing online student safety is a top priority for IT personnel. With the use of tablets and student owned devices on and off campus, administrators need to have the ability to enforce content security policies. Additionally, because socialnetworking sites have also become integral parts of a rich, collaborative online learning experience, there is a need for high-level vigilance to protect students online. Regulate and monitor user activities with Barracuda Web Security Gateway Enforce safe search on all major search engines Gain granular insight into websites, apps, and devices with customized reporting Promptly identify and monitor harassment and cyberbullying within SSL-encrypted social media networks Facilitate access to online educational content by allowing temporary access to restrictive content Trigger suspicious activity alerts in real-time Google Applications for Education enforcement Extend security for all devices on and off the network with Barracuda remote security agents Enroll, activate, and provision devices with Barracuda s Mobile Device Manager (MDM) Enforce security policies on Chromebooks, even when outside the network

6 Network Security Network Readiness in a Cloud-Enabled World In this day and age, it s more essential than ever for schools to secure their network perimeter, regulate network traffic, and manage bandwidth utilization. Additionally, as schools move to using more cloud-based and SaaS applications, they need to optimize internet connectivity to provide accelerated access to important applications such as online assessments and learning tools. Manage network traffic Optimize internet connectivity with instantaneous failover for multiple internet access lines Link-balance traffic to ensure mission-critical data has priority Ensure high Quality-of-Service for high priority applications such as Google Apps for Education Improve bandwidth availability with application-based uplink selection Monitor and regulate all activity on the network Use granular visibility into student activity to help create traffic-shaping policies Create dynamic policies that establish and enforce access for students, faculty and staff Block unwanted applications, control and throttle acceptable traffic, and enable or disable specific application sub-functions (e.g., Facebook Chat) Manage security policies across all locations from a single pane of glass Looking to leverage E-Rate discounts? Barracuda has three E-Rate eligible products: Barracuda NextGen Firewall F-Series, Barracuda NextGen Firewall X-Series, and the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. The Barracuda products are eligible for Category 2 funding under the Data Protection Firewall for both Internal Connections and Managed Internal Broadband Services categories.

7 Security Making Safe for Education Migrating your to the cloud gives your school the convenience of easy access to and documents with reduced management overhead. However, by putting important data in the cloud, schools need to ensure they meet security and compliance requirements. Safeguard s in the cloud with multi-layer security Provide multi-layered security within cloudbased productivity suites such as Microsoft Office 365 or Google Apps for Education Protect against phishing, malware and ransomware Sandbox suspicious attachments and scan for malware with Advanced Threat Detection Avoid malware downloads with typosquatted link protection Protect sensitive information with encryption and data leak prevention Provide Archiving and Data Protection Safely preserve s separate from your production mail store Apply granular retention policies to ensure important s are retained Quickly fulfill ediscovery and compliance search requests Easily backup and recover lost s (currently only available for Microsoft Office 365) Barracuda Essentials for Microsoft Office 365 and Essentials for Security protect your organization with comprehensive, scalable and affordable multi-layer security, archiving and data protection, whether you use Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps for Education, or other on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments.

8 Compliance Compliance Through Preservation Accessing and storing for long periods of time are key needs of most public and private education institutions, but are often quite challenging due to limited personnel, IT resources, and budget. Fortunately, Barracuda provides archiving solutions that are cost effective, easy to deploy, and easy to use. Retain and retrieve all communications Access and recover any message ever sent, received, or deleted on the server Tamper-proof archiving for applications such as Google Apps for Education, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, and Groupwise Fulfill requirements for ediscovery and compliance Simplify user access with intuitive search and message management via a web browser Apply granular retention policies to ensure important s are retained Reduce storage requirements Eliminate the need for users to archive s locally Ability to manage and eliminate PST files Messages are deduplicated and compressed for maximum storage efficiency

9 Data Protection Protect Your School s Data A lot of schools data such as a student s immunization records and grades is important; therefore, it s imperative that a reliable backup solution is in place. Many schools experience excessive operating costs, data loss, as well as difficulty in protecting both physical and virtual environments. Barracuda Backup is the perfect solution to help schools solve these problems. Barracuda Backup is a unified, cost-effective solution that protects physical, virtual, and cloud environments such as Microsoft Office 365. It can be delivered as an all-in-one purpose-built backup appliance, or as a virtual appliance to leverage existing infrastructures. Reduce labor and operation costs Save money with inline source and targetbased deduplication and compression Fast, local restores Automatic local and offsite data backup Manage via single cloud-based management console Safeguard all data at the school or district level Ability to access data during a disaster Scalable retention and offsite disaster recovery with Barracuda Cloud

10 Paperless School Eliminate Your School s Paper Waste Today s educators face a growing demand to improve service for students and their parents, while staying within budget. SignNow is the leading e-signature solution for delivering sensitive information to parents with complete confidentiality. Not only does SignNow enable schools to eliminate paper waste, it s also an easy and affordable solution to automate communication among parents, teachers, and administrators. End the paper chase Easily and privately distribute and receive secure paperless permission slips, enrollment forms and other documents directly to parents No more lost paper forms that don t make it home or back to school Parents can esign their approvals in seconds from a computer, phone, or tablet Reduce administrative costs No more making copies or envelope stuffing No more tracking down returned paperwork Save money on postage and stationery Eliminate paper waste

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