Case Study: Lynx Helps Kingsborough Community College Earn An 'A' In Endpoint Management

Online, July 10, 2012 (Newswire.com) - BizTechReports (www.biztechreports.com) an independent research and reporting agency that analyzes user trends in business technology, has just released a case study on Kingsborough Community College's (KBCC's) strategy for managing endpoint security.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, KBCC ranks as one of the nation's top community colleges in awarding associates degrees to minority scholars. The school, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2013, serves about 26,000 students per year offering 16,000 credit courses. It has a diverse student body that brings a broad array of computing and communications devices that are used to access academic and administrative computing resources.

KBCC was seeking an integrated approach to a broad array of IT management challenges including:

• Hardware asset management;
• Unmanaged asset tracking;
• Software license management;
• Outage management; and
• Patch management.

As the endpoint environment becomes more complex with the rise of sophisticated mobile devices (i.e. tablets and smartphones) that can be owned by KBCC or the end-user, it is critical to develop a unified management strategy that mitigates risks, while providing maximum flexibility to students, faculty and staff.

KBCC turned to Lynx Technology Partners to implement Tanium, a solution that provides instant visibility and allows IT managers to collect data and update machines across the network within seconds. The solution enables KBCC to make critical decisions with confidence. IT leadership can determine which clients are good candidates for virtualization and/or decide what technology elements are ready for migration to new platforms (such as cloud computing).

KBCC can also use Tanium to better manage IT staff. Rather than waiting for employees to report on progress on projects that affect the technology infrastructure, the Tanium system can be queried to see if changes that were discussed with team members have been made in the time frames that were expected.

The complete text of the KBCC case study can be found here:

http://www.lynxtp.com/tanium/contact/kbcc

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About KBCC

Kingsborough Community College (www.Kingsborough.edu) is Brooklyn's only community college. It is located on a 70-acre campus in Manhattan Beach, on the southern tip of Brooklyn. It serves approximately 30,000 students per year, offering a wide range of credit and noncredit courses in the liberal arts, career education, and specialized programs. Its highly diverse student body represents 142 national backgrounds and 73 main languages. Kingsborough was ranked as one of the 10 top community colleges in America by The New York Times.

About Lynx Technology Partners

Lynx Technology Partners was founded in 2008. Our core competency is providing consultants experienced in the selection, design and implementation of multiple security technologies. We have delivered extensive services including: feasibility studies, product selection, rules and policy development, network re-engineering, installation and configuration, report and analysis temple development, post implementation security testing, and performance tuning. As new disciplines and technologies emerge, we create and support practices in those areas, enabling consultants and engineers to "jump-start" their expertise. This systematic approach ensures that Lynx Technology Partners will maintain its ability to reliably support the cutting-edge technologies required by its clients. The ability to rapidly acquire expertise in new technologies provides Lynx Technology Partners with maximum technical agility and is a critical competitive differentiator.