Educational institutions are incredibly rich targets for cybercriminals – large volumes of data, valuable intellectual property, numerous access points, and a continuously changing student body that’s difficult to train and secure.
A successful cyber attack can expose your community, damage your institution’s brand, and cause significant financial loss.
Industry BriefFor educational institutions - whether they’re K-12, college, or universities - keeping student and staff data secure is a top priority. However, tight budgets and limited resources can make doing so a challenge.
Cybersecurity doesn’t need to be so hard. Mimecast offers easy to implement, easy to manage, effective and affordable security solutions for hundreds of institutions just like yours.
Victim: Bob
Role: Faculty at a private university.
Mistake: Clicked on an emailed link that supposedly redirects him to an application for funding for his research area.
Result: The malicious link unleashes a ransomware attack that infiltrates the university’s network and brings down their technology systems.
Consequences:
1. Pay the Ransom - No Guarantees
2. Rebuild Servers from Data Backups
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Average cost of a ransomware incident
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Victim: Penelope
Role: Professor at Wiggham Community College.
Mistake: Receives an ‘from IT’ to update her log-in credentials; clicks on the link and enters her information on a website that looks legit.
Result: The hacker uses stolen credentials to access the community college’s network.
Consequences:
Hackers can now steal precious faculty and student PII
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Average cost per record breached for Education
Victim: Joan
Role: Professor at Hopper University.
Scenario:
Result: Nation-state hackers steal classified research and provide it to their government.
Consequences:
Iranian Hackers stole credentials of professors, research data and IP
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Victim: Jack
Role: University student.
Mistake:
Result: Jack uses stolen credentials to access the network, log into the grading system to update his grades.
Consequences:
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Of malware is deployed through email + web
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“Mimecast has provided an increased feeling of 'being in control', more end-user awareness and less effort and cost spent on fixing damage caused by malicious email content.”
IT Manager
“Targeted Threat Protection has been invaluable for preventing malware attacks against our network as our users sometimes carelessly click links delivered via email.”
IT Specialist
Center Grove Community School Corporation
Mimecast helps Indiana public school system unite email archiving and spam filtering in the cloud
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Mimecast understands the unique challenges our educational institution customers face and is dedicated to serving their cyber protection needs. Let us protect your environment so you can focus on your educational priorities.
Prevents Phishing Attacks and Malware from getting to users’ inboxes.
Reduces Risk of malicious attachments and URLs.
Applies Best-practice Inspections to all email, including inbound, internal, and outbound.
Learn moreEasy And Quick video-based modules delivered monthly that take less than 5 minutes to complete.
Engaging laugh-out-loud funny security awareness training that your employees enjoy rather than dread.
Effective micro-learning approach improves cyber awareness, sharpens cyber security reflexes, and reduces the risk of an innocent but devastating mistake.
Learn moreProtects Online Activity without impacting productivity.
Reduces “Shadow IT” by limiting the use of risky sites and unsanctioned applications.
Keeps Users Safe On Any Device whether they are using a PC, tablet or smart phone.
Learn morePrevent Loss of Critical Data as a last line of defense against ransomware.
Supports Rapid Recovery of data and service restoration after an attack.
Provides Point in Time Data Recovery of emails, files, and contacts.
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