Does your school have these five critical security features? 

Can you name a school that doesn’t lock its doors at the end of the day? 

Didn’t think so. But many learning institutions who lock their doors are failing to also lock up their private communications systems, putting their teachers and students at serious risk.

Without proper precautions, it’s easy for hackers to steal your school’s sensitive information such as financial audit reports, employee email passwords, student medical records, and more.

That’s why a growing number of schools are making the move to cloud-based communication platforms. The cloud can help provide the end-to-end protection required for your staff’s collaboration needs. From phone calls, to videoconferencing, to instant messaging, group chat, and more, isn’t it time to see what the cloud can do for you?

Here are the 5 biggest security features Verizon’s Virtual Communications Express (VCE) cloud-based phone system leverages to help keep schools safer:

 

  • 1. Hard-to-hack systems

    Verizon VCE delivers secure software design coding, configuration and monitoring that help safeguard your communications from cyberattacks.

    Verizon’s hardened operation system and network security govern ports and protocols. You can also have application security for your voice portal, including SIP access control lists, password policies and enforcement, device lockout, call processing policies and controls.

  • 2. Availability through redundancy

    The number of unpredictable situations that could impact your operations can be endless. On-site server rooms can suffer an electrical circuit overload. Denial-of-service attacks can tie up your network. Construction diggers might accidentally cut communication lines connecting your school to the outside world… you get the idea.

    That’s why Verizon’s VCE employs redundant server clusters, routers and data network paths to help avoid a single point of failure, including geographic diversity.

  • 3. Independent risk assurance

    The best and most trusted service providers comply with independent, third-party assessments.

    Verizon VCE is dedicated to complying with popular industry certifications and benchmarks including: TL 9000, ISO 9000, ISO 27001, FedRAMP and NIST SP800-53.

  • 4. Easy manageability

    Verizon VCE could help you reduce your spend on security operations by installing needed security features and keeping them current.  Allowing Verizon to manage your security means you can focus on teaching.

  • 5. Confidential communications

    Verizon VCE will help keep your information confidential through strong cryptographic algorithms, certificates and protocols - whether that data is stored or passing over a network. Some of these include: OpenSSL, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), X.509 certificates and RFCcompliant network communication protocols, such as TLS and OCSP.