Education

Protect Learning Environments

Schools are increasingly investing in computers to give their students the best and most relevant education they can. However, with 60,000 new pieces of malware emerging every single day, protecting these investments takes more than just an Anti-Virus.

Faronics takes a multi-layered approach to your institution’s IT security, allowing you maximum protection from threats and the quickest recovery from intrusions.

Enter Layered Security

Normal anti-virus software works by blocking software that is known to be harmful. The trouble is today the sheer number of threats makes it difficult for even the best anti-virus software to keep up.

Instead of just blocking the known bad-guys, Faronics Anti-executable, a whitelisting technology, prevents any program from running that isn’t authorized.

A whitelist is a list of applications that are authorized to launch on a computer. If a program isn’t on the list, it will not run. IT administrators get to decide what applications are necessary on any given machine, and then block all others

Finally, the ultimate layer of security: full system restoration. Whether it’s a malicious intrusion, or just a little-too-curious student who manages to break a system configuration, it is often easier to simply wipe and restore a computer to its original configuration than to try and diagnose highly specific misconfiguration.

Deep Freeze’s patented technology restores a computer to a set configuration on every reboot. Any changes or problems that result from malicious software, misconfiguration, or just plain old user error are undone when the computer is restarted. This significantly reduces the burden on IT teams to fix minor issues, and keeps computers running as efficiently as the first day they were turned on.

It also gives teachers the flexibility to let students explore and experiment far more than the otherwise could, as the system’s configuration is now bullet-proof, students can learn without fear of making a mistake.

One Solution: Multiple Implementation Options

Different areas of educational institutions have different IT needs and requirements. Student computers frequently need to be locked down to prevent unauthorized use, while teachers need the flexibility to use their computers to their full potential and functionality.

Layered Security in flexible environments:

Some users need both security protection and the flexibility to change their system’s configuration, retain specific settings, etc.

The Faronics Layered Security Bundle combines our Anti-Virus software with Anti-Executable. The powerful duo can be deployed across all your machines and then centrally managed from the Faronics Core.

Layered Security in static environments:

It’s frequently necessary IT departments to lock down machines strictly, preventing students or less-experienced users from making unauthorized changes which require IT time to repair.

The Faronics Total Layered Security Bundle adds Deep Freeze to Anti-Virus and Anti-Executable for rock-solid protection of your workstation configurations. If any security threats manage to get past the first two layers of security, they run into the brick wall of Deep Freeze that restores the computers IT-specified configuration on every restart. This also removes users changes – intentional or not, giving IT complete control over how the machines they administer. User files are redirected to a protection part of the drive where they are retained.

The average desktop costs a company $4650 per year to own and operate

Even with the decreasing price of computer hardware, the cost of outfitting even a small school with computers is substantial. Then comes the cost of maintaining the, which can quickly out pace the purchase price. Faronics helps your business significantly cut costs by reducing how much power machines use as well as the number, length and complexity of support requests.

The average help desk cost per contact is estimated to be $23.09

Support calls are cost time and money, both in the time of your IT person to fix the issue and the opportunity cost of having them not working on something else. In many schools IT personal have multiple responsibilities, not always just in IT, and support calls means less time on these important areas.

Faronics Deep Freeze

With Faronics Deep Freeze, the majority of support calls can be mitigated with a simple restart. Deep Freeze “freezes” your system’s configuration and then it restores it to this point on every restart. That means that IT personal need only restart (or tell the user) to restart their computer and boom! Problem solved.

Faronics Deep Freeze can reduce support tickets up to 63%, letting IT teams focus on other projects or responsibilities.

Over a year, a typical desktop PC can consume up to $100 in energy costs and 870-kilowatt hours of electricity!

Faronics Power Save

The power costs of running computers adds up quickly. Power management tools help reduce this cost – but they can be difficult to manage easily over a large number of systems.

Faronics Power Save is a power management solution designed to be deployed and managed centrally from the Faronics Core, allowing for easy energy management of your entire network. In addition, Power Save offers unique reporting functionality allowing you to track how much power (and money) is being saved.

Going green is no longer just about “looking good”. It makes real economic costs to invest in sustainable solutions. Power Save can reduce each computer’s energy consumption by up to $50 a year! Add to this some of the energy rebates offered in some regions for investing in this technology and you can be receiving return on investment even quicker!

Advanced Education Solutions

Insight enables students to request and receive help directly and discuss course material. They can ask questions without leaving their workstations and without disturbing other students. Students can also collaborate and develop their leadership skills by sharing their screen with other students. Advanced features like real-time screen monitoring, USB/printer blocking, and web browsing and application limiting ensures students stay on task.

Amplify Student Achievement

Insight’s enhanced supervision provides instructors the opportunity to effectively focus on students with the greatest needs. Voting, testing, and chatting features allow instructors to instantly gauge student comprehension. Meanwhile the elimination of classroom distractions help students focus and concentrate. Finally student confidence is boosted through personalized tutoring without classroom interruption, or without other students knowing.

Access More Funding

If your educational facility is seeking increased funding software that assists in student success, Insight can help. By monitoring student attendance you can boost not only your academic achievement, but also receive much needed funding. Student attendance monitoring can ultimately boost your enrollment and student achievement rates.

Complete System Control

The modern Windows workstation is an incredibly flexible machine, allowing users to engage in many different activities and functions. However, with this flexibility comes risk. Students and less experienced users shouldn’t be able to access certain settings, and for machines used for only very specific functions, allowing access to the wider system is both distracting and unnecessary.

WINSelect takes complete control over the Windows user environment allowing you to lock down a computer’s functions at an extremely granular level. Whether it’s preventing students from plugging in their iPods, or time-limiting sessions, WINSelect puts administrators in the driving seat for exactly what users can and can’t do.

IT Asset Management

With so many different hardware configurations, software configurations and licenses all around your network, for IT, simply knowing what they’re working with can be a very arduous task – a time consuming and laborious process full of Excel spreadsheets and going computer to computer.

Not any more! Faronics system profiler allows you to instantly know the set up for every single computer in your network. Whether it’s hardware specs to plan upgrades, or monitoring licenses to ensure compliance, System Profiler arms IT with the knowledge they need to do their work quickly and effectively.