The temples of education are filled to the brinks with the collective knowledge of many aspirations. The universities to schools, whose archives are a huge collection of research, thesis to countless theories and knowledge base, are now available to many in the global online environment, and growing tremendously by the day in the digitally connected world. The universities archives of knowledge are open 24 x 7 for students to professors alike. However, with the looming cyber threats the highly valuable, critical and irreplaceable knowledge base is under the threat due to lack of best IT practices among students.
One of the major threats comes from the uninhibited use of portable devices used among students to access & share data among themselves, which are a major carrier of malware to Trojans. These Portable devices / USBs could pose a bigger threat to the University or school networks with lack of proper security measures while allowing seamless access to their archives & libraries. Apart from that many critical knowledge bases residing in the university servers could be lost to a ransomware attack in absence of strong network and endpoint security solution.
eScan – Enterprise security, with its constant innovation in its products range has been instrumental in providing robust security and best practices guidelines to many such educational institutions. One of them globally reputed university has such challenges as mentioned above and was worried about the safe keep of their archives and access to students. eScan’s comprehensive security solution to manage the portable devices in the network, as well as DLP solution, helped them secure their network from cyber threats while allowing seamless access to the university network and allowed white labeled USB devices too. Its central management console also helped them to deploy the security patches among the endpoints across the network and helped to keep watch on any security lapses at the endpoints by alerting the admin.
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