[ solutions :: higher-ed ]

Higher Education .

Security and operations for universities, colleges, and research institutions — across decentralized IT, research data, and a campus network that never sleeps.

[ briefing :: higher education ] field
// threat pattern
ransomware HOT
research-data exfil HOT
credential abuse WARN
// regulatory baseline
CMMC (research)HIPAA (med)FERPA
// procurement vehicles
institutionalfederal grant frameworks

[ 00 / the situation ]

Higher ed is harder than the org chart looks. Central IT runs the campus network, identity, and the systems of record — but the department-level shadow IT is real, often justified, and not going anywhere. The schools of engineering and medicine in particular run their own infrastructure for their own reasons.

The network has to stay up because the residence halls, the medical center, the research clusters, and the lecture halls all live on it. Outages have consequences in different units of measure depending on who’s affected.

Research data carries its own weight. Federally-funded work increasingly carries CMMC obligations. Health-related research drags HIPAA in alongside it. Export-controlled research has its own posture. None of these survive being treated as the same problem.

[ 01 / what we run for institutions ]

  • Grid — both tracks. The SOC track for the central security team that needs eyes on identity, endpoints, cloud, and the long tail of departmental systems. The NOC track for the campus network team running availability and performance across the kind of infrastructure that doesn’t get to go down.
  • Comply — compliance assessment that handles CMMC and the other federal-adjacent frameworks at the department or program level. Auditor guest seats so your CMMC assessor doesn’t need a campus account.
  • Intel — structured threat intelligence with full provenance, useful for the research-IT teams who actually want to track threats against their specific instrument vendors and software stacks.
  • Lens — vulnerability management with exploitability context, sized for an environment where “the patch window is fall break” is a real constraint.
  • Consulting and Professional Services — for the work that bridges central IT, departmental IT, and research-program leadership without forcing a single org chart to handle it.

[ 02 / who we work with ]

  • Public and private universities
  • Community and technical colleges
  • Research institutions and university research centers
  • Academic medical centers and university hospital systems
  • Statewide higher-ed system offices
[ ready :: contact ]

Talk to us.

Tell us about your institution, where the federated and the central live, and which research programs sit on top of it. We'll talk honestly about what fits where.