For Education
The ransomware target. The smallest IT teams.
K-12 districts and small colleges are top ransomware targets — and run on the smallest IT teams. BigMind Resilience scales from a single school's free DR to a full multi-tenant district deployment with per-school dashboards.
Click to enlargeThe pain
The worst combination in any vertical.
High attacker-value data, strict regulators (FERPA plus state laws), and the smallest IT teams — all at once. A 1-2 person team is expected to defend years of irreplaceable records on a fixed budget.
High-value data, smallest teams
K-12 districts and small colleges hold attacker-valuable data — student PII, financials, research — while running the smallest IT teams in any vertical. The K12 SIX project cataloged 200+ publicly-disclosed school ransomware incidents through 2024; multi-week class disruption is the norm.
Years of records you can’t afford to keep — or delete
Schools accumulate years of student records, lesson plans, lab data, and grant-funded research. Hot storage on all of it forever is unaffordable — but retention rules and FOIA-equivalent requests mean these institutions can’t simply delete it either.
Keep current-year data hot. Archive the rest for 40–70% less.
Schools can't delete records, but they can't afford hot storage on all of them forever. Storage tiering moves data through Hot, Cold, and Deep Freeze automatically so you keep the records and cut the bill.
- Hot — current-semester data, instant access.
- Cold — previous academic years, retrieved in hours.
- Deep Freeze — graduated-student archives at the lowest cost tier.
Click to enlargeBlock-level imaging and 5 ways to recover — built for the lab PC that always gets replaced.
Every device gets block-level imaging. Cross-hardware restore brings a machine back onto different hardware, so replacing the lab PCs that always fail doesn't mean rebuilding them by hand.
- Block-level imaging on every covered device.
- Cross-hardware restore for replaced or upgraded machines.
- 5 recovery paths — from instant file browse to a full system restore.
Click to enlargeMid-attack detection that gives a 1-2 person team a fighting chance.
Deterministic mid-attack ransomware detection watches for the signature of encryption-in-progress and alerts before the spread completes. It's free in every paid tier — not an upsell.
- Deterministic — flags encryption behavior, not AI-trained guesses.
- Mid-attack alerts buy time a tiny IT team doesn’t otherwise have.
- Included free in every paid Resilience tier.
Click to enlargeWhere it fits
From one school to a 50-school district.
BigMind Resilience scales without changing tools — start free on a single campus, grow into a multi-tenant district deployment.
Workspaces for per-school isolation
Isolate each school or department in a district deployment. Per-school audit logs and access boundaries — 10 workspaces on Standard, unlimited on Pro.
Learn moreFree local DR for small schools
Schools under 5 staff machines can run BigMind DR Free at $0 — local block-level imaging with three recovery paths, no card required.
Learn moreScales to a full district
Grow from a single school’s free DR to a multi-tenant district deployment — one console, per-school dashboards, consistent policy.
Learn moreCompliance
FERPA-aware, with the audit trail to prove it.
Encryption, isolation, and a full access log on every record — the controls schools need to stay defensible under FERPA and state student-privacy laws.
FERPA-aware data handling
AES-256 encryption, an audit log on every access, and workspace-level isolation — the controls schools need to keep student records defensible.
State student-privacy alignment
Aligns with state student-privacy laws, which vary by state. A Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available for district contracts.
SOC 2 Type II infrastructure
Built on SOC 2 Type II infrastructure with a 99.9% uptime SLA and support for 10M+ files per device.
Learn moreCost frame
What it actually costs.
Real configurations, from a single small school to a compliance-heavy university department. Annual billing saves 17%.
$0 / year
A 5-staff school runs BigMind DR Free locally — no per-user cost, three recovery paths on Windows and Linux.
~$12,000 / year
Standard at $10/user/mo covers a 100-user school with cloud DR, 5 recovery paths, the Ransomware Canary, and 10 client workspaces.
~$28,800 / year
A university department on Pro at $24/user/mo adds WORM-immutable retention and AI Lens for a 100-user, compliance-heavy team.
Free migration assistance for districts on 50+ seats. Talk to Sales for district and multi-school deals.
Questions districts ask.
- Education pricing — Talk to Sales for district and multi-school deals.
- Deploy across 50 schools — yes, multi-tenant via Workspaces with per-school audit logs.
- Chromebooks — file backup via mobile and desktop sync; DR imaging is Windows and Linux.
Click to enlargeMore solutions
Built for other regulated and data-heavy teams.
Healthcare
HIPAA-compliant infrastructure, imaging, and clinical-record retention.
Learn moreLegal
Matter-based retention, defensible audit trails, and secure external sharing.
Learn moreFinancial Services
WORM retention and immutable records for regulated finance teams.
Learn moreMSPs & IT
Multi-tenant management and per-client recovery for service providers.
Learn moreReady to protect your institution?
Start a 14-day free trial, or talk to our team about district and multi-school deployments.