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Securing higher education against advanced cyberthreats
Sophos MDR is the leading Managed Detection and Response service for the education sector. Protect your institution with 24/7 human-led threat hunting and response.
Why higher education is a prime target
Higher education providers such as colleges and universities are a prime target for cybercriminals. Adversaries are increasingly attracted by the valuable and sensitive information they hold, and the opportunity to extort payments using ransomware and the threat of breach exposure.
Higher education providers such as colleges and universities are a prime target for cybercriminals. Adversaries are increasingly attracted by the valuable and sensitive information they hold, and the opportunity to extort payments using ransomware and the threat of breach exposure.
Higher education faces escalating cyber risk
The cybersecurity challenge for higher education providers continues to grow
How Sophos MDR protects higher education
24/7 human-led threat hunting and incident response from Sophos experts
24/7 threat hunting
Sophos MDR analysts continuously hunt for threats across your endpoints, servers, network, cloud workloads, email, and identity systems. Human expertise identifies attacks that evade automated defenses.
Rapid incident response
When threats are detected, Sophos MDR analysts take direct action to contain and neutralize attacks. Response actions execute automatically through Sophos Central to stop breaches before damage occurs.
Threat intelligence
Insights from Sophos X-Ops inform every investigation. MDR analysts leverage intelligence on threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures specific to the education sector.
Detailed reporting
Receive clear, actionable reports on security incidents with recommendations for strengthening defenses. Quarterly reviews provide strategic guidance on security posture.
Sophos MDR: Securing State and Local Governmentss
As the cybersecurity challenge continues to grow, government institutions are increasingly turning to the Sophos MDR service to help them stay ahead of today's advanced threats.
Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a fully managed service delivered by experts who detect and respond to cyberattacks targeting your computers, servers, networks, cloud workloads, email accounts, and more.
Detect:We monitor your environment 24/7, collecting, contextualizing, and correlating security data from the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem and your existing cybersecurity investments to identify suspicious activities
Investigate:We monitor your environment 24/7, collecting, contextualizing, and correlating security data from the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem and your existing cybersecurity investments to identify suspicious activities
Remediate: Analysts quickly remediate attacks across the broad range of your environment, before they turn into something more damaging such as ransomware or a wide scale data breach
Review: Comprehensive root cause analysis of incidents together with regular health checks and weekly and monthly reporting enable you to improve security posture and prevent future recurrence
A service designed around you
We understand that each healthcare organization is different with their own existing security investments, IT/cybersecurity staff, and IT environment. Sophos MDR meets you where you are: you choose the level of support required, whether you want us to notify you of threats so your team can take remedial action, contain threats on your behalf, or provide full incident response and root cause analysis. Our security specialists will work with you to identify the right approach for your organization.
With an average time to detect, investigate and remediate of just 38 minutes, Sophos MDR is more than 5 times quicker than even the fastest in-house security operations team.
Elevate your protection using your existing investments
- Endpoint telemetry to spot malicious activities and attack behaviors
- Firewall data to detect intrusion attempts and beaconing
- Network telemetry to identify rogue assets, unprotected devices, and novel attacks
- Email alerts to pinpoint initial entry into the network and attempts to steal access data
- Identity data to detect unauthorized network entry and attempts to escalate privileges
- Cloud alerts to indicate unauthorized network access and efforts to steal data
Sophos MDR
- 24/7 real-time threat monitoring and response
- Expert lead threat hunting
- Cross-product (Sophos and third-party) consolidation and correlation of security event data
- Full-scale managed incident response (unlimited number of hours: no additional fees or retainers)
- Best in class breach protection warranty
- Dedicated incident response lead assigned
- Direct call-in support to Sophos security operations centers (6 global SOCs)
- Weekly and monthly activity reports
- Monthly intelligence briefings
- Root cause analysis performed to improve security posture and prevent recurrence of future threats
- Regular Sophos account health checks to review configurations and ensure optimal performance
"My overall experience with Sophos MDR has been nothing short of spectacular, the service is driven by a team of experts coupled with machine learning technology gives you a complete visibility of your infrastructure. All threats happening across are being monitored and contained remotely by the MDR team." – Gartner Peer Insights
"The quality of the security, which gives us peace of mind knowing that we have a team watching our back and we aren't alone in keeping our business and client data safe." – Gartner Peer Insights
"Great partnership with Sophos, strongly recommend." – Gartner Peer Insights
Unified Healthcare Security Management
Sophos Central provides a single pane of glass to manage all your healthcare security - from endpoints and firewalls to email and cloud workloads.
