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With bit-level replication to a geographically separated region, our disaster recovery provides near real-time continuity, rendering catastrophic events almost unnoticeable to district users.
In the event of a security incident, such as malware attack, the Disaster Recovery (DR) environment will bring SchoolTool back up at the point of the last known good baseline.
Stay up-to-date with the latest release and new features without time-consuming updates related to:
• New SchoolTool Version Releases
• SchoolTool Maintenance Releases & Hotfixes
• Other Software (OS patching and required 3rd party components)
Infrastructure is managed and scalable, allowing administrators, staff, and parents to enjoy a much faster user experience that doesn’t lag, even during peak usage.
With one flat fee per user, we'll horizontally and vertically scale your infrastructure to ensure that it’s performant throughout the school year.
Reduce your district’s carbon footprint by eliminating the need to maintain in-house servers for your Student Management System (SMS)—large capital investments that depreciate over time, and consume precious resources such as power, time, and physical space.
With cybercriminals using the pandemic to attack the education industry with increased frequency and sophistication, there is an urgency to enhance your security posture and protect yourself from future risk.
Mindex is an AWS Advanced Services Partner and Public Sector Solution Provider, with a security posture so robust we are trusted by organizations in highly targeted data-sensitive industries to protect and monitor their cloud data.
With SchoolTool cloud hosting, offload the risk of ever-increasing and costly cyberattacks by automatically adhering to high standards of privacy and data security with proactive monitoring and blocking through penetration testing, interactive application scanning, continuous web application firewall updates, DDoS prevention, and endpoint protection on servers.
Secure physical environments both at AWS and Mindex
Strong governance framework, regularly reviewed by 3rd parties
Strictly controlled access and secure communication protocols
Robust change and configuration management practices
Granular audit trails, anomaly detection, alerting, and intervention
Thorough data handling practices from development to support
Regular security incident simulations and disaster recovery testing
DDoS, WAF, IDS/IDP, and next-gen end-point protection all in use
Regular penetration testing and vulnerability scanning (IAST and SAST)
Timely patching of all 3rd party applications and OS
Please refer to our Data Privacy and Security Plan to review our policies regarding our use of data and our adherence to the Parents’ Bill of Rights.
By migrating to the cloud, districts are transforming the way they deliver and support education, but they need to achieve this migration quickly and efficiently so they can truly allocate time and attention to more value-added responsibilities and resources to help their students succeed. Cloud migrations also require extensive planning and preparation that most IT staff don’t have the time or expertise to tackle—that’s where we come in!
Our SchoolTool cloud migration team is equipped with the experience, tools and resources to help you through each step of the migration journey. We can help you achieve a successful cloud migration, from assessing your current environment, to planning and executing the migration itself, and supporting your new cloud environment post-migration.
Every district is unique, and we would ensure your migration follows the best practices to make your cloud migration a success. We work closely with you to coordinate timing and communications, capture custom work and integrations that exist in your environment, ensure a secure backup is in place, test and test some more, and guide you through a successful go-live.
Interested in learning more about how your district can migrate to the cloud?
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, we are committed to helping customers no matter where they are on their cloud journey by reducing the effort, time, and complexity involved.
Mindex is more than SchoolTool, and across the entire organization we have deep cloud expertise. Aside from hosting SchoolTool in the cloud, we also have the experience, tools and resources to work hand-in-hand to assist your district with migrating other investments you may have in your IT infrastructure to the cloud.
It all starts with understanding your entire IT landscape, determining each application's fit and feasibility to begin a cloud journey, and providing recommended paths to ensure success.
We'd love to help you with your cloud journey outside of SchoolTool.
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