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1. CUSTOMER Client: Waingels College Internet security… a priority Sector: Education you can forget about Country: UK Users: 500 High on protection low on maintenance, AVG Website: frees the support team. www.waingels.wokingham.sch.uk AVG solution: AV Business Edition 500 licence, 1 year contract PROFILE Waingels College in Wokingham is a successful secondary school specialising in IT and maths, with almost 500 workstations and servers across the campus. THE CHALLENGE How to maintain the efficient running of back office and classroom systems with limited ICT support resources – internet security needs to be ‘low maintenance’. The Situation: Waingels College is a popular secondary school THE SOLUTION specialising in IT and maths. Delivering a curriculum The ICT team have used AVG for 5 years. so heavily weighted towards technology and internet- They appreciate the ease of use for end enabled computers places a high priority on system users, the ease of central management and security and robustness. the fact that it quietly gets on with its job. With almost 500 workstations and servers across the campus, users include the college leadership team, the school back office through to THE BENEFITS teaching staff and students. Advanced protection that frees the team to With access to schools servers from home, the issue of secure working focus on helping teaching and leadership using foreign networks/internet access is also a consideration. teams to focus on their ‘day job’ of improving outcomes for pupils. For the past five years we’ve been practically able to forget it was there… Simon Mills, Network Manager EDUCATION

2. The Challenge: Advantages Why AVG? Like all secondary schools, Waingels has to Mills is clear about the fit of AVG in the context of • 110 million business and deliver year on year improvement in results the complex challenges faced by schools like his. home users worldwide without gaining additional funding or • 1 million more users “The IT team needs to ensure that the resources. The role of IT is crucial. every month advanced management information systems Issues such as school standards improvement, employed by the school in the classrooms, the • Trusted by the world’s most reducing staff workloads, engaging parents back office and those that reach out to pupils demanding businesses and personalised learning are all driving the and their parent at home, are hard at work • Comprehensive business need for advanced IT solutions. helping the leadership team and the frontline protection – file server, teaching staff to do their job effectively”. email server, workstation They are also driving the search for technology that reduces the frustrations, delays and The team is also very conscious of the high • Multi-award winning performance distractions that get in the way of the ‘day job’ profile duty of care issues surrounding of delivering better education for their pupils. sensitive personal data on children and their • Engineered for no- performance. compromise protection that Internet security technology needs to be is easy to live with effective, but very discreet. It simply cannot “AVG 9.0 delivers the security we need but get in the way. delivers this without causing end users of • Unique LinkScanner® technology delivers real- the IT team any of the problems that more The small in-house IT team at Waingels has time protection resource intensive software causes. It’s also many calls on its time and has used AVG for • Comprehensive support easy to manage. five years now. and service. AVG has a great network installer as well as In its search for the best technology to help good interfaces. Things like a customisable deliver the school agenda, this team stays dashboard make it easy to manage. I just clear closely in touch with developments in the away all the items I’m not so interested in and internet security market and compares their use the filtering mechanisms to target specific experiences with other schools during regular machines and focus on the nasties” network manager meetings. Network Manager Simon Mills explains; The Experience “We’re always looking to see if we can improve What in particular makes AVG good for schools on what we’ve got here. Performance and like Waingels? “Internet security shouldn’t take value for money are king. If we found there was up time – it’s important, but if it just gets on and an advantage with another vendor or felt that does its job, and has been designed well, you AVG wasn’t doing its job then we would have should be able to forget about it. That has been made a change, but that hasn’t been the case. our experience with AVG over the past 5 years”. We review the competition on an annual basis and year on year, we find that the combination of AVG’s speed and robustness and the fact that it’s a ‘fire and forget’ solution, means we couldn’t do better for the school.”