CYBERSECURITY FOR EDUCATION
Protect students, staff, research, and sensitive data with human-centric security built for today's collaborative learning environments.
Modern Education Cybersecurity
Modern schools and universities depend on open communication and seamless access to support teaching, learning, and research. Effective cybersecurity solutions for education help protect people, sensitive data, and critical systems while reducing human risk, all without disrupting the work that matters most.
Stop human-targeted attacks
Protect students, staff, and faculty from phishing, ransomware, account takeover, and other threats.
Protect critical information
Safeguard the sensitive data your institution relies on across people, systems, and communications.
Keep education running
Reduce human risk without slowing communication, collaboration, or access across your institution.
Advanced Threat Protection
Proofpoint helps K-12 schools and higher education institutions stop advanced threats before they reach users. AI-powered threat protection secures email, Microsoft 365, and cloud collaboration across the attack lifecycle, from pre-delivery detection through post-delivery response. Automated response contains threats faster, reducing disruption across campuses and research environments.
Unified Data Protection
Apply consistent data security across email, cloud apps, endpoints, and AI tools without limiting the access and collaboration education depends on. Use deep insights into data and user activity to apply the right controls where they matter most.
Risk-Based User Training
Turn real-world threat and behavior insights into security awareness training tailored to each user's risk profile. Targeted simulations and timely guidance help users learn to recognize and respond to the threats they actually face.
Customer Stories
"We wanted to protect our email and domain reputation. Proofpoint gave us the control over outbound email that we needed."
Mark Ratliff
Dir., Cloud Infrastructure, Princeton University
"Proofpoint Email Protection has been very effective at blocking malicious emails. It enables us to see the types of attacks, and know that our schools are being protected."
Andrew Hood
Chief Advisor of Cybersecurity, New Zealand Ministry of Education
"Proofpoint has probably saved us the equivalent of two or three full-time employees within our internal security teams."
Steve Rogers
CTO, Coventry University
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Phishing, account takeover, and ransomware attacks are major cyberthreats for the education sector. Attackers target staff, educators, and students to gain access to sensitive information and trusted systems. Schools and universities must also manage insider risk and protect research, personal information, and institutional data from accidental exposure.
Schools and universities can reduce ransomware risk by stopping phishing and credential theft before attackers gain access, detecting compromised accounts, and responding quickly to malicious activity. Effective cybersecurity for schools combines threat protection with strong identity controls, security awareness, and measures that limit access to sensitive data after an account is compromised.
Educational institutions can protect sensitive data with security controls that account for how people access and use it. Data loss prevention and insider threat management can reduce risky behavior without blocking legitimate work. This is especially important in higher education, where research depends on secure access and collaboration.
Security awareness training can reduce human risk by teaching users how to recognize and respond to cyberthreats. Risk-based programs use threat and behavior insights to tailor simulations and guidance to individual users, making training more relevant than a uniform approach for every student or employee.
Schools and universities can secure AI use by gaining visibility into approved and unapproved AI tools and controlling how sensitive data is shared with them. Effective AI security can prevent sensitive data from being exposed through prompts and interactions while giving students, faculty, and staff appropriate access to AI capabilities.
Schools and universities should look for cybersecurity solutions that protect people, sensitive data and critical systems without disrupting teaching, learning or research. Effective education cybersecurity should help stop phishing and account takeover, protect sensitive data, reduce human risk and secure the use of AI tools. It should also provide visibility and controls that adapt to different users, roles and access needs.
