For all of the success of Google Apps for Education, its adoption is not always met with completely open arms. Even for those districts or schools that are using Google Apps, the process of moving everything to Google Apps often requires overcoming concerns about the privacy of student data.

The Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union in Vermont, which provides leadership and support for nine different school districts, is a case in point. BRSU has embraced technology in education, and cloud computing in general. The district was an early adopter of Google Apps for Education.

Nonetheless, access security concerns remained. And as the district implemented additional SaaS applications to support its teachers and staff, they had to address those concerns.

Dan French, the superintendent of BRSU, has found that using myOneLogin Secure Single Sign-On for its teachers and staff alleviates these concerns. myOneLogin provides strong authentication that is easy to deploy, with a single sign-on to all of the schools’ web applications, including Google Apps.

Adding myOneLogin, with its strong authentication capabilities, was key to encouraging the broader use of Google Apps and other cloud applications.  Says French, “With myOneLogin, I feel better about access security for sensitive data in Google Apps. I can be more aggressive about encouraging the further use of Google Apps now that access is locked down with myOneLogin.”

You can read about their deployment on the Google Apps Marketplace at http://solutionsmarketplace.blogspot.com/2010/05/tricipher-and-bennington-rutland.html

Tags: access security, education, Google Apps, schools, strong authentication, teachers, Vermont

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