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Data Defense: cybersecurity built for schools
Data Defense(TM) is a complete, managed cybersecurity offering for K-12 schools, colleges, and libraries. It protects the student data, systems, and instructional time your district runs on, and it is deployed, configured, and managed by our team so your staff never has to become security experts.
What Data Defense is
Data Defense is layered protection managed as one service. Instead of a single tool or a piece of antivirus software, it brings together the protections a modern district needs, from securing email and identities to monitoring every device and keeping recoverable backups, and puts them under one team’s watch. Every layer is set up and maintained for you, and each one closes a gap that attackers are trained to find.
What Data Defense protects you from
Schools have become one of the most targeted sectors, because they hold sensitive data and often run lean IT teams. Data Defense is built to stop the attacks districts actually face.
Identity-based attacks were used in 85% of ransomware attacks on education institutions in 2026, above the 79% average across all industries. Source: Sophos, 2026. Data Defense verifies identity and locks down access so a stolen password does not become a district-wide breach.
Malicious email was the leading technical entry point for ransomware in K-12, at 31% of incidents. Source: Sophos, 2026. Data Defense filters and neutralizes email threats before they reach a mailbox.
The average ransomware recovery cost across education reached $2.26 million, above the $1.7 million cross-sector average. Source: Sophos, 2026. Prevention plus tested, recoverable backups is what keeps an incident from becoming a budget crisis.
How Data Defense fits your district
Data Defense is designed to cover every stage of an incident, described in plain terms:
Prevent.
Seal the common entry points, email, identities, and network access, before a threat reaches a device.
Detect.
Watch every device continuously, so unusual activity is spotted early rather than after the damage.
Respond.
Contain and remove a threat quickly when one appears, so it does not spread across the district.
Recover.
Restore from backups that ransomware cannot reach, so you can get back to teaching without paying a ransom.
Together, these give your district security peace of mind: protection that is always on and always managed, not a checklist you maintain alone.
GoLive Back-Up:
recovery you can count on
Backup and recovery is part of the Data Defense stack. GoLive Back-Up keeps protected copies of your data that ransomware cannot encrypt or delete, so recovery is a plan, not a gamble. When 77% of K-12 institutions that recovered from ransomware in 2026 did it using backups (Source: Sophos, 2026), the quality of those backups is what decides how fast a district gets back to normal.