Case Study: Helping a UK School Regain Control After a Cybersecurity Incident

Protecting our nations core services.

This week, Strand supported a UK education provider housing 15,000 endpoints, facing a serious cybersecurity breach.

The school detected unusual activity after parents and staff began receiving fraudulent emails and financial requests from what appeared to be trusted accounts. With sensitive data at risk and reputational concerns growing, their team needed to act fast.

Strand was deployed to investigate, contain and resolve the incident.

The platform quickly identified the source of the compromise, removed the attacker’s access, and uncovered previously undetected risks, including unrelated student account activity linked to separate phishing attempts.

From the moment of reporting, the incident was fully contained, remediated and reported in the space of an afternoon. Without tools like Strand, this incident would have been weeks of investigation and incident understanding, and with specific focus on the timelines of the report wider compromised accounts would not necessarily be caught.

This proactive response helped the school prevent further damage and regain control of their systems.

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