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The unique user-intensive nature of education institutions'
computing environment leaves it especially vulnerable at the
endpoints. With Internet hotspots, classroom computer labs,
library terminals, and employee PCs and laptops, the average
educational IT ecosystem includes literally thousands of geographically
remote, highly-accessible endpoints. Each of these endpoints
is a potential access point into the network. Even connection
of innocuous communication or entertainment devices like USB
drives, iPods and smartphones and even CD/DVDs can result in
the loss of sensitive data and or introduce malware that can
cripple the network.
According to USA Today, college networks are "leaking data
like a sieve." Colleges have been the source of up to half of
all reported breaches, according to cyber security reports –
and over a hundred serious computer security breaches have been
reported at educational institutions in the US alone since 2005,
including:
- A University of Nevada, Reno professor lost a
flash drive containing the personal information of 16,000
current and former students.
- Stolen Stanford University Laptop Contained 72,000 confidential
employee records including social security numbers, telephone
numbers and salary information.
Plugging the Leaks
Uniquely suited for the challenges of large-scale university
IT environments, Safend Data Protection Suite delivers comprehensive
endpoint data protection - offering security administrators
the power of granular visibility and control over every potential
endpoint leakage channel, coupled with sophisticated security
policy creation and enforcement.
Leveraging Safend Protector and Encryptor, IT administrators
can apply customized security policies over all PCs/laptops
including all physical, wireless and removable storage interfaces
– regardless of their physical location in the network..
Safend protects the confidentiality and integrity of student
and faculty data by enabling only authorized users to copy data
to removable media and storage devices, while at the same time
enforcing encryption of data at rest and data in motion, and
maintaining a full audit trail of such actions.
Featuring easy deployment and seamless maintenance for administrators,
Safend Data Protection Suite enables educational institutions
to:
- Centrally monitor and control the flow of inbound and
outbound data, blocking unauthorized data transfers from
the endpoint and adhering to copyright laws for published
content
- Protect proprietary faculty and student data from leaving
the institution through unauthorized wireless connections
or external storage devices
- Secure data with the enforced encryption of data on
laptops, external storage devices and CD/DVDs
- Protect data from the threat of malware and hardware
keylogger devices
- Comply with regulations such as the California Security
Breach Information Act (SB-1386), PCI and HIPAA (for institutions
associated with healthcare)
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Safend
and Education