K-12 schools face increasing cyber threats as they work to protect sensitive student data, meet evolving compliance standards, and secure extensive IT infrastructures. K12 cybersecurity is essential in preventing data breaches, ransomware attacks, and phishing schemes that target schools and their digital learning environments.
Blueshift’s fully-managed XDR Suite provides cybersecurity for schools, offering advanced automation and 24×7 managed security operations to ensure comprehensive visibility and protection across the entire IT ecosystem, including:
As K-12 schools become increasingly reliant on digital tools for learning and administration, their cybersecurity risks continue to grow. Limited IT resources, complex compliance requirements, and a rapidly expanding attack surface make educational institutions prime targets for cybercriminals. From costly compliance mandates to real-time threat detection gaps, schools face significant obstacles in securing their networks, student data, and IT infrastructure. Below are some of the key cybersecurity challenges facing K-12 schools today.
K-12 schools struggle to recruit and retain the staff with the requisite cybersecurity expertise to detect and defend their infrastructure against advanced cyber attacks.
Most K-12 schools struggle to keep pace with regulatory requirements related to PII, FERPA, and other complex compliance mandates.
Most K-12 schools struggle to stay up-to-date on threats in their environment and implement real-time detection and response, allowing adversaries the necessary dwell time to execute a successful cyber attack.
K-12 schools are a major target for adversaries due to their vast number of connections spread across various locations and access to sensitive student information.
IT misconfigurations are the top cause of data breaches, accounting for 43% of all breaches. Misconfigured systems can leave K-12 schools exposed to attack, data theft and other security incidents.
K-12 schools are increasingly being targeted in phishing attacks by cybercriminals looking to steal student information.
Given the issues mentioned above, it is inevitable that most K-12 schools will experience a cyber breach; however, at the point of initial compromise, Blueshift’s XDR Suite gains an immediate tactical advantage over the attacker, allowing us to stop a cyber breach before it has time to escalate into a full-scale cyberattack.
The Blueshift XDR Suite is delivered as a fully managed SOC-as-a-Service with little or no IT involvement required. The U.S.-based SOC provides proactive 24x7 security operations including threat hunting, forensic investigations, and remediation recommendations.
Blueshift monitors your organizations IT infrastructure with advanced deep packet inspection, comprehensive security event logging and vulnerability detection to stop for cyber breaches and vulnerabilities.
The Blueshift XDR Suite offers an affordable, SOC managed, one-stop-shop cyber security solution that meets PII, FERPA, and other complex compliance mandates.
Never worry about paying costly monthly fees to store critical log files. Blueshift will store an unlimited number of logs on-prem at no additional cost
Extend packet layer detection and response for any device connected to the network. Reduces attacker dwell time by quickly detecting and responding to unwanted cyber breaches before they have time to escalate into full-scale cyber attacks.
Comprehensive Managed SIEM with automated SOAR-like functionality collects and stores unlimited security logs on-prem for automated threat detection, response and forensics investigations
Blueshift’s Fully-Managed XDR Suite protects education institutions with comprehensive cybersecurity services including:
Comprehensive monitoring of all leading Cloud environments including Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, and Office 365.
Blueshift’s affordable SOC-managed, one-stop-shop cyber security solution that meets GLBA, FERPA, PII, PCI and other compliance requirements.
With Blueshift’s cybersecurity for schools, educational institutions can defend against evolving cyber threats while ensuring compliance with FERPA, PII, and other security standards.
Blueshift provides cost-effective, fully managed K12 cybersecurity solutions that keep students, staff, and school networks protected—so schools can focus on education, not cyber threats.
Learn how Blueshift’s fully-managed XDR Suite combines advanced automation with 24×7 U.S.-based managed security operations to provide education institutions with affordable yet comprehensive visibility across the entire organization in order to protect:
“After reviewing several SOC-as-a-Service providers, we found Blueshift’s technology, ease of deployment, customizability and ability to monitor all devices connected to the network to be far ahead of the competition.
Blueshift’s unique combination of technology and world-class cybersecurity operations truly provides protection against attacks other solutions miss.”
“We now have a SIEM with logging of network and endpoint events, we have a 24/7 SOC monitoring activity and proactively contacting us, and we have a resource to reach out to when we have concerns and questions about things we’re seeing. We couldn’t be happier with how Blueshift supports us.”
“It’s like having another employee or more. Whenever Blueshift spots something problematic, as small as a piece of vulnerable software or an old version of software, I’ll get an email from them telling me that they saw a problem so we can update it.
My confidence level with Blueshift is very high. They have a couple of people that are assigned to us, and they let us know, around the clock, if something is happening so we can fix it.”
