Coast Community College District
Keeping Institutional Data Safe in the Cloud
The Coast Community Colleges System dramatically improved system security and stability with cloud migration.
Transcript
Our cutover from on-premises to the cloud was seamless. That was really like it truly was. You know, everyone came together. One thing that we as a single district cannot do is have a huge security team. It just doesn't scale for us. Yes, we do have a very small group in the cyber team, but what we needed was someone with expertise and a huge cybersecurity team.
The strength that they have with Ellucian… You know, you have a huge team and by having Ellucian team keeping eye on our data, that's really important. So, the very recent example, the vulnerability came out about Log4J. Oh my goodness, I mean I cannot thank Ellucian [enough]. It's like we got an e-mail first thing in the morning, no worries. You're protected. We're taking care of it. We're patching it.
So, that just kind of really did the trick for everyone and also it was approved, the true benefit that coming across, right? So, there was a huge reason for us and we're really, really happy with the protection we have on that.
