In a world filled with ransomware attacks and security breaches, it’s important to keep your students’ data safe. Taking every available measure to safely house and protect student data is the first step in preventing a potential disaster. Aeries Cloud Hosting can help alleviate those fears and give you the peace of mind you deserve. While there are a multitude of benefits of moving to a hosted environment, let’s dive into the top four!
Top-notch Security Measures
While keeping up with software updates and patches may sound like enough effort, unpatched vulnerabilities are now exploited by attackers faster than ever before. Increasingly, K-12 institutions are being targeted as noted by the FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC. This means you are likely to be more susceptible to threats such as ransomware or DDoS attacks than you realize. (To learn more about these ongoing threats, click here).
Increased Protection Through Compliance Efforts
Going hosted means you will be protected by our efforts to adhere to NIST 800-53, 800-171, and 800-218 standards, as well as 3rd-party audits such as those conducted by iKeepSafe. Additionally, third-party integrations you currently have in place can be migrated to increase reliability and security of the data exchange process.
Disaster Recovery
If your server is out of date, it’s more likely to suddenly crash. Hardware failures are less likely to happen when you are in a hosted environment because of AWS’s industry-leading infrastructure including redundancy at every possible layer (e.g. hardware, power, water, cooling, telecom). Additionally, data rollback or recovered from a previous time if needed.
The Reliability, Expertise, and Benefits of Amazon Web Services
AWS is the industry leader in providing a highly secure infrastructure to ensure the privacy of your data, and they’re well-known for its stability, maturity, and embrace of open-source technologies. Through our partnership, both Aeries and AWS experts work together to deliver world-class service to provide you with savings in both time and money, resiliency against modern attacks, and more sustainable computing.
The transition to going hosted is so quick and seamless, end users may only notice that the URL has changed! Your interface won’t be affected, meaning no disruption to your users so they can go on with their day.
And as for your team, you won’t have to worry about negative implications! In fact, most districts maintain exactly the same level of staffing, but may reassign staff to new tasks where they had previously been assigned hardware and software maintenance. Best of all, this frees up your staff to focus more directly on what really matters in your mission to promote student success. Talk about a win-win, all around.
As of today, more than 2/3 of Aeries users are enjoying the safety, security, and benefits of a hosted environment. Is it time to join them? To learn more about how to go hosted, contact sales@aeries.com.
