Sale College Secures Remote Learning with Absolute Secure Endpoint
Sale College is a regional secondary school in Victoria, Australia. The IT team supports a large community across multiple campuses, managing a fleet of Windows laptops. Technology drives their daily curriculum, meaning reliable devices and secure cloud platforms are essential for continuous student learning.
The challenge of tracking off-campus devices
Sale College’s IT team manages a large fleet of Windows laptops for students and staff. Because these devices leave the campus daily, maintaining visibility over endpoints was a significant operational hurdle.
Before implementing a dedicated resilience platform, the IT team struggled to track the last known location of devices. Identifying offline laptops and recovering lost or stolen equipment took up valuable support time. They needed a way to ensure security controls remained active outside the school network, while fitting seamlessly into their existing Microsoft 365 and Cisco Meraki stack.
For us, cyber resilience means ensuring teaching and learning can continue securely with minimal disruption. It isn’t about preventing incidents — it is about maintaining visibility, responding quickly, and recovering effectively when issues occur.
How They Did It
Establishing a Persistent Connection to Every Device
Managing a large fleet of student laptops across multiple campuses is complex enough. When those devices leave campus daily, visibility gaps become a real operational risk. Sale College needed a way to maintain unbroken control over every endpoint — regardless of where students took them.
By deploying Absolute Secure Endpoint, Sale College established a permanent, tamper-proof connection to its entire laptop fleet. Powered by Absolute Persistence® technology embedded directly into device firmware, this connection cannot be removed by end users or disabled by software changes. Even if a student attempts to alter or delete the agent, it automatically reinstalls itself. The IT team gains a reliable, always-on source of truth for every device in their environment — on campus or off.
Automating Visibility Without Adding Workload
Before Absolute, the IT team spent considerable time manually tracking down inactive or missing laptops. That reactive approach consumed support hours and delayed resolution when devices went missing or fell out of compliance.
With Absolute Secure Endpoint in place, routine tracking tasks happen automatically. The platform continuously monitors device health, location, and activity — surfacing the information IT needs without requiring constant manual intervention. Sale College's team can now identify inactive devices instantly, initiate remote lock or wipe actions when necessary, and maintain accurate, up-to-date records across their fleet. What once required manual effort now runs in the background, freeing IT staff to focus on higher-value work.
Strengthening Compliance and Asset Reporting
Accurate asset records are foundational to both security and operational efficiency — yet maintaining them manually creates ongoing administrative burden. Sale College needed a way to improve compliance reporting without adding to its IT team's workload.
Absolute Secure Endpoint provides persistent, real-time visibility into every endpoint, making compliance auditing straightforward and consistent. The platform supports accurate inventory tracking and simplifies reporting across the fleet. This strengthened approach to asset visibility has helped Sale College reduce hardware replacement costs, improve audit readiness, and demonstrate greater operational control across its technology environment.
For us, cyber resilience means ensuring teaching and learning can continue securely with minimal disruption. It isn’t about preventing incidents — it is about maintaining visibility, responding quickly, and recovering effectively when issues occur.
Absolute (Security) provides confidence that our endpoints remain visible and manageable regardless of location. In education, devices frequently move between school, home, and external environments, so having a platform that maintains visibility and resilience is extremely valuable. Knowing we can track devices, monitor activity, and respond quickly to issues gives our IT team greater peace of mind and helps support a proactive security approach.
Reduced administrative workload and hardware loss
The transition to Absolute Security transformed how Sale College manages its endpoint hardware. By automating routine tracking tasks, the IT team significantly reduced their operational overhead and manual support efforts.
They can now identify inactive devices instantly, which helps lower hardware replacement costs and improves overall compliance auditing. Secure, resilient access to educational tools means students experience less downtime, and the IT department spends less time chasing lost equipment.
For Sale College, Absolute Secure Endpoint:
- Reduced the time spent locating missing student devices.
- Improved recovery rates for misplaced laptops.
- Gained unbreakable visibility into endpoint activity across the entire fleet.
- Decreased manual administrative workloads for IT staff.
- Strengthened compliance reporting and asset tracking capabilities.
