Key Cybersecurity Challenges for the Higher Education Sector
Your reputation is hard won but easily lost
The financial security of your institution depends on student fees. Breaches can tarnish reputation and put sensitive data and world-leading research into the wrong hands.
Trend Vision One offers a single, centralised platform to:
- Continuously manage cyber risk across your institution’s entire attack surface, ensuring protection of sensitive data amidst porous networks and complex supply chains.
- Rapidly detect and contain of threats, crucial for safeguarding high-value research and mitigating insider threats that could compromise PII and financial data.
- Simplify and converge security operations with automation across on-premises and hybrid IT environments, alleviating budgetary pressures while maintaining comprehensive prevention, detection, and response capabilities.
Network complexity invites cyber risk
Faculties, laboratories, libraries, remote students – they might all run their own discrete networks. Managing risk across these varied environments is no easy feat.
Trend Vision One enables:
- Continuous risk management with ASRM across the expansive attack surface of higher education institutions, safeguarding sensitive data including PII, financials, and highvalue research against insider threats and theft.
- Cloud-native security operations that seamlessly integrate across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, addressing supply chain complexity and porous networks to mitigate cyber risks and protect against data breaches.
- Policies that can be proactively adjusted to continuously optimise defences, ensuring proactive protection against evolving threats while managing budgetary pressures and enhancing communication at Board level.
Don’t let cost pressures dictate your cybersecurity strategy
Budgetary pressure is a fact of life. But “good enough” bundled security is rarely good enough in the face of advanced and persistent threats.
Higher education institutions are increasingly targeted by nation and proxy state actors due to the commercial value of their research, with email identified as the primary entry point for malicious actors.
Trend Vision One offers comprehensive cyber-risk management which won’t break the bank. Independent studies reveal it can:
- Reduce the average cost of a data breach by £1.3m
- Reduction in security FTE costs of 70%
- Reduce cybersecurity cost by 70% and data breach risk by 17%
58% of education IT leaders recognise cyber risk as their biggest business risk
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Why Trend Micro as partner for the Higher Education Sector
Experience
We work with many Higher Education institutions and help them overcome their cybersecurity challenges on a daily basis, preparing them for the latest and most advanced attacks
Full portfolio
Solutions can be combined or used as standalone services, allowing you to build according to budget, time and needs
Global leader
Our Zero Day initiative puts us in the first line of detection, with 64% of all vulnerabilities disclosed by Trend Micro
Trend Micro is a good fit for customers who want a consistently strong endpoint protection platform that can support evolving to XDR
Ranked #1 in IDC’s Worldwide Hybrid Cloud Workload Security Market Shares report
Trend Micro ranked #1 in the production category for ensuring early attack prevention
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