The Bellevue School District, near Seattle, Washington, includes approximately 16,850 students and 2,000 staff members and is comprised of 16 elementary schools, five middle schools, four high schools, and two alternative schools. Part of its responsibility is to efficiently manage a network of interconnected server farms, databases, centralized applications and telecommunications infrastructure. The main concern for IT staff at the Bellevue School District was to protect their computer systems from external and internal security risks.

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