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Cabarrus County
Boosts AD Efficiency andSecurity with Active Roles

Active Roles automations save customer countless hours in AD management,
password reset and intuitive group policy management an audit readiness.

Challenges
Customer: Cabarrus County Schools
Employees: 5000 staff | 36,000 students• AD Provisioning and deprovisioning
for constantly changing student andteacher accounts

Industry: Education• Manually managing group permissions
and policies

Website: https://www.cabarrus.k12.nc.us/• Meeting audit requirements• Securing access to entitlements

With the field of education continuing to bea hotbed for scrutiny, counties can’t afford
cybersecurity breaches in their schools. But withthe constant revolving of accounts and identities,
due to teacher onboarding and offboarding,
graduations or student transfers from county tocounty, AD account provisioning and day to day
management of Active Directory (AD) can easilymorph into a nightmare.
In the North Carolina county of Cabarrus, theschool system looked for ways to boost bothsecurity and efficiency. The IT department had theirhands full provisioning and deprovisioning an everchanging set of 41,000 user accounts, including
5,000 staff and 36,000 student users.
The previous solution for the constant flux ofusers didn’t provide all the desired automations orsecurity for Cabarrus County Schools. They found a
fix for this issue in One Identity Active Roles.

Solutions• Active Roles• Password ManagerResults• Boosted automated identity security
through group management permissions
and policies• Secured provisioning and deprovisioning
accounts for maximum efficiency• Experienced reliable policy
configurations with a‘set-it-and-forget-it’ functionality• Enjoyed guided and fast support

Efficiency is one of the main issues for the ITdepartment, which covers the gamut of all aspectsof technology.
Active Roles’ ability to automatically create new
accounts gives the county schools a ‘set-it-andforget-it’ functionality within their networks, saving
the county countless hours and money in password
reset and AD management and allowing easy
group policy management, privilege checks andeven audits.
“Simply transferring between schools within thedistrict is an Active Directory nightmare unlessit’s a little bit automated,” says Mickey Farmer,
Director of Systems Technology and Innovation.
“The automation provided by Active Roles, OneIdentity and your other products just takes away
the need for the constant edits and the constantmanual adds and removals, freeing up our staff
for everything else that they need to be doing.”
But identity security also remains a concern in
Cabarrus County Schools, especially since most users
are young and have yet to build their technologicalliteracy. This makes them one of the highest targets
in the world of cyber threats, according to Farmer.
“If you take a five-year-old, a kindergartner, andsomebody gets a hold of their social security number,they’ve got about 13 years of just stealing that identity
before anybody even notices it.”Cabarrus County Schools isnot taking such a threat lightly,
especially after their momentous achievement of the CoSN
Consortium of School Networks
Trusted Learning Environment
Award, a national award for atrusted learning environmentthat takes data security andprivacy seriously.

“All that’s built into Active Roles– all you have to do is right click
and run an audit and it’ll tell
you who is in the group thatshouldn’t be and who’s not in
the group that should be.
Mickey Farmer,
Director of Systems Technology and Innovation
Cabarrus County Schools”

This made Active Roles and other One Identity
products even more important to Cabarrus
County’s Technology Department, as they put themin a proactive instead of reactive situation and gavethem the security, efficiency and management boost
that every set of schools desires and deserves.

“One of the main benefits ofActive Roles is that it automatesvery time-consuming processes,
but we also don’t have to spend
time fine tuning it.

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Joshua Saylor, Infrastructure and Systems Supervisor
Cabarrus County Schools

About One Identity

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