Keeping one step ahead of tech savvy students!

Peter Dinham
Monday, 06 April 2009 09:13

IT Industry - Deals

Queensland’s St Andrews Catholic College has implemented AppSense management suite to help manage and control student access to applications within Citrix, enhance remote access for staff and students and to increase server capacity and performance.

AppSense’s general manager for Australia and New Zealand, Sean Walsh, says St Andrew's is using the suite to proactively manage and control applications installed or executed on its computers by creating its own list of allowed or safe applications, automatically blocking any that are disallowed or unfamiliar.

According to Walsh, part of the suite, AppSense Application Manager, keeps a record when a forbidden script or application attempts to execute, detailing who attempted to execute it and the device used.
 
“St Andrew's can now prevent students from attempting to disrupt operations by tampering with the network and accessing banned applications.”

Damon Thompson, ICT Manager at St Andrew's, said "reactive application management is certainly not strong enough in a school environment where children are becoming increasingly technologically savvy.
 
“We had a few incidences where students worked out how to send network messages through the school to disrupt operations. Because AppSense automatically takes care of this, the responsibility is taken off the IT staff.

“Not only does AppSense prevent the script from being executed, but the records allow us to trace the person responsible. It's the technology equivalent of a teacher having eyes in the back of their head!"
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