Challenge:
By having high expectations, outstanding education, and best-of-breed technologies, Achievement First have digital learning programs such as ST Math and Zearn that promote deep conceptual understanding. The organization sought best-in-class tools to help mitigate risks that student information would be inadvertently exposed or that students would connect to sites that exposed the school to malware.
Solution:
- Implemented BetterCloud to gain visibility into third-party applications students were connecting to their school accounts
- Streamlined account creation with automated workflows
- Set up alerts to monitor changes in Achievement First’s SaaS environment
- Created audit trails and alerts for security
Results:
- Reduced onboarding and offboarding time by 75%
- Improved consistency by more than 80%
- Strengthened security posture
- Protected students from inadvertently connecting to unsafe sites
Use Cases
Incident response
User lifecycle management
Visibility & auditability