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Teach For America Uses CloudLock to Increase Operational Efficiency
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Human Resources
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
- Remote Collaboration
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
The Challenge
Teach For America, a national corps of top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools, faced a challenge during their intensive summer training program. The program, which involves approximately 5,800 first-year teachers, required a solution that allowed for collaboration, homework completion, and document access anywhere and anytime. The challenge was particularly pronounced when it came to sharing documents externally during this training time. Although Teach For America has a limited number of laptops and workstations, most teachers choose to bring their own device to the summer training program, thus requiring the team to find a solution that is secure, externally shareable, and accessible. Additionally, after the summer training institute and every year when staff transition, Teach For America needs to audit hundreds of accounts to ensure that documents and sites remain secure.
About The Customer
Teach For America is a national corps of top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Teach For America’s network for the 2012-13 school year includes more than 10,000 teachers in 46 regions across the country, and nearly 28,000 alumni working in education and many other sectors to create the systemic changes that will help end educational inequity. The organization has a total of 2,300 employees.
The Solution
Teach For America turned to CloudLock to secure sensitive data like donor and corps member information. CloudLock provides capabilities such as bulk operations for permissions changes, removing internal and external exposures, Transfer Ownership with a full audit log of all the actions, and Exposure Notifications. This solution allowed Teach For America to automate manual processes, freeing up time for more strategic projects. CloudLock also enables domain administrators and document owners to quickly and effectively verify the legitimacy of suspected exposures, remediate any incorrect sharing, and rely on ongoing monitoring to prevent any future exposures. Google Apps was also used to allow Teach For America to collaborate in real-time across the country, enabling more seamless training and on-boarding of teachers during the intensive summer training time.
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