Industry Brief: Higher Education

Keeper Security Government Cloud
Password Manager and Privileged
Access Manager for Higher Education

Colleges And Universities Are Targets

Higher education institutions are a primary target ofcybercriminals, both because of the vast amounts of student
and staff data they possess and due to the potential forlarge payouts.
Universities, community colleges and private educationalorganizations often have limited cybersecurity budgets
and large attack surfaces due to ever-changing student
populations and heterogenous IT resources betweendepartments.

Colleges and Universities Are Under Attack200There were nearly two hundred reported
ransomware attacks targeting US universities
between May of 2022 and June of 2023.1

Student and Staff Data Is at Risk

Colleges and universities maintain a wealth of personal
information including names, addresses, birth dates, andsometimes even Social Security numbers of students andstaff. This data can be sold on the dark web or used foridentity theft.

Campuses Lack of Robust Security

Many colleges and universities do not have a Privileged
Access Management (PAM) solution in place. Legacy PAM
solutions are often too costly, too complex and too difficult
to manage for time and budget-strapped higher education
IT teams.

74%
The percentage of data breaches that are
due to the human element, with stolen or weakpasswords acting as a primary vector forcybercriminals.

56%

Failure To Act Is Costly

Recovering from a cyberattack can be expensive.
Organizations might need to hire external experts, replacecompromised hardware, purchase new software or pay
ransoms. In addition, universities are often required bylaw to protect student data. A breach can lead to legal
consequences, potential lawsuits and fines.

Over half of IT teams report they’ve tried
to deploy a PAM solution, but didn’t fully
implement it due to complexity.

3.7M

$

Data breaches cost higher educationand training organizations $3.7M onaverage in 2023.2
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Higher Education

Cybersecurity Starts with Protecting Your Passwords, Secrets and Credentials
Keeper Security Government Cloud (KSGC) Password Manager and Privileged Access Manager delivers
enterprise-grade password, passkey, secrets and privileged connection management in one unified platform.

Bonus >>> Keeper provides a free personal password manager to all students

Keeper gives higher education institutions the visibility and control they need to prevent credential-based cyberattacks
by enabling IT administrators to manage employee password use and systems access throughout the data environment.
Keeper provides privileged account session management, secrets management, Single Sign-On (SSO) integration,privileged account credential management, and powerful credential vaulting and access control.

Protect Passwords and Credentials

Keeper’s unique security architecture protects data andsystems with a solution that is quick to deploy and easy
to use. Securely store, share and manage passwords
across the entire organization.

Simplify Secure Remote Access

Securely manage your remote connections fromanywhere – no VPN required.

Streamline Compliance and Audits

Provide on-demand visibility of access permissions toyour organization’s credentials and secrets.

Enables organizations to securely
manage, protect, discover,share and rotate passwords andpasskeys with full control andvisibility to simplify auditing andcompliance.

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Delivers a fully-managed,
cloud-based solution to secure
infrastructure secrets such as
API keys, database credentials,
access keys and certificates.

Provides an agentless remote
desktop gateway for instantprivileged session management,
remote infrastructure access andsecure remote database accesswith RDP, SSH keys, database
and Kubernetes endpoints –without the need for a VPN.

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