archTIS Ltd has expanded its contract with Singapore-based Skool4Kidz Preschools with an additional 190 NC Protect licenses sold since Skool4Kidz initially purchased the product through the company’s ASEAN distributor i-Sprint Innovations.
Skool4Kidz has embarked on a digital transformation project to convert printed teaching resources to digital versions that could be accessed by teachers and management both in school and remotely.
Already a Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) 365 (M365) customer, Skool4Kidz wanted to store and share the curriculum resources with teachers using the collaboration platform.
The challenge was how to secure the files as they were downloaded to the teacher’s laptops.
archTIS’ NC Protect is a complementary add-on solution to the Microsoft 365 suite that provides attribute-based access control (ABAC) and granular data protection capabilities to enhance Microsoft’s security capabilities.
At rest and in motion encryption capabilities
Skoool4Kids curriculum director Catherine Liew said: “We wanted to see how we could continue to leverage our Microsoft 365 document management tools without switching to another file-sharing system, so we turned to i-Sprint Innovations, a leading Singapore-based company specialised in secure access management solutions, for help addressing this challenge.”
“We looked at a few other solutions, but no one could accommodate encryption as the file was being downloaded onto the teacher’s device.
“What made NC Protect stand out is the software’s at rest and in motion encryption capabilities that integrate with Microsoft Purview Information Protection.
“It provides in-transit protection for both Microsoft Office files and our interactive teaching aids created in Mimio which the other solutions did not offer,” said Liew.
Encrypting sensitive documents
With NC Protect, access and data protection policies are automatically adjusted based on a combination of user context and file sensitivity to prevent accidental and malicious data loss and misuse.
Additionally, if a sensitive document requires encryption, it can encrypt the content immediately – whether the file is at rest or in motion.
archTIS managing director and CEO Daniel Lai said: “We are pleased that working together with i-Sprint we were able to solve Skool4Kidz digital transformation and M365 collaborations challenges.
“Extending archTIS’ footprint into global markets through trusted distributors like iSprint has given us the ability to reach international markets, verticals, and customers we otherwise would not have access to.”