Higher Education Cybersecurity Solutions

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Higher Education

Stop malicious messages and email from fraudulent and compromised accounts.

Defend against all types of email-based threats with advanced email security.

Secure Office 365 the right way with enhanced tools for your team to deploy.

Help for Higher Education from Proofpoint

In the face of advanced cyber threats, a people-centric approach is essential.

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Open networks, email, cloud apps—these are the tools of modern education. Faculty, researchers, industry partners and students now generate, exchange and access a wealth of sensitive information through these channels on a daily basis. Educational institutions struggle to address the speed, volume and complexity of today’s evolving cyber threats, while also being under intense pressure to protect privacy under FERPA, HIPAA and other rules.

People-centric security for higher education with Proofpoint

Protect against ransomware, general phishing, credential-phishing attacks, email and other forms of digital fraud.

Combat email and cloud threats.
Secure Microsoft 365 and other cloud applications.
Stop fraudulent and compromised accounts from exploiting your people.

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Whether your people are targeted through email, the web, social media or cloud apps train them how to spot cyber threats.

Assess end user risk with simulated attacks and knowledge assessments.
Train your employees to identify, resist and report attacks.
Gain real-time insight on who is being attacked, how, and ways to prevent it.

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Our flexible platform stops data loss from email, cloud apps, and on-premises file repositories—without the complexity and cost of legacy tools.

Transparently encrypt and quarantine your data.
Easily manage sensitive content sent through email.

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Proof from Our Customers

“Proofpoint delivers one of the best email protection solutions that I’ve used. It covers our bases completely, and we don’t worry about email defenses anymore.” — Clandis Smith, Network Administrator

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“Proofpoint plugged right into our virtual environment, proving to be the perfect match for our security and messaging needs. And, with Proofpoint's enterprise privacy, encryption, and archiving capabilities, we have a solution in place that can grow as our data security and compliance initiatives continue to expand.” — Praveen Panchal, Vice President of IT

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“Proofpoint is doing its job, so it’s paid for itself already. Not only that, but the UT president and executives sleep better at night too, and that alone is worth its weight in gold.” — Paul Dumbleton, CISSP and Manager, Infrastructure Security Engineer

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