Spring Independent School District thwarts ransomware attack with Cohesity on AWS

The call dreaded by school-district IT teams came one evening in November 2020: a ransomware attack was underway. Fortunately, Spring Independent School District (ISD) had recently switched to Cohesity DataProtect. They store one immutable copy of virtual machines (VMs) and databases on-premises and another on AWS. Before school started the next day, the IT team had restored its Active Directory servers and critical learning servers from AWS. Finance and the Student Information System—were back online just two days later. No disruption to learning. No impact on payroll. No ransom paid.