Difenda is your collaborative cybersecurity partner who takes a cybersecurity-first, Microsoft-only approach to solving your toughest cybersecurity challenges.     Our modular approach to managed security services meets you wherever you are in the Security Operations journey so you can easily extend elements of your security program to different user personas like staff and students.  

1. SCORE AN A ON
MICROSOFT 365 A5 WITH
DIFENDA
Graduate with a mature Security program

2. CREATING A SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR FACULTY,
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI DOESN’T NEED AN OVERWHELMING
NUMBER OF TOOLS AND PLATFORMS.
CUSTOMIZING YOUR SOLUTION WITH DIFENDA ALLOWS YOU TO
PAY FOR ONLY WHAT YOU WILL USE.
HERE ARE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS TO
COMMON CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGES IN
THE EDUCATION SECTOR.

3. MANAGING ACCESS TO
SENSITIVE DATA AND
RESOURCES
Unauthorized access to student records,
financial data and intellectual property
can lead to identity theft, fraud, and other
types of security breaches.
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
Centralize user access to improve visibility into
access management.
Implement role-based access control to ensure
that users only have access to the resources
they need.
Provide single sign-on (SSO).
Implementing multi-factor authentication to
prevent unauthorized access in the event that a
user's password is compromised.

4. BRING YOUR OWN
DEVICES
The use of personal devices such as
laptops, and cellphones by students and
staff creates security vulnerabilities and
reduces the security team's ability to
effectively mitigate risk.
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
Monitor network activity to detect suspicious
behaviors.
Develop a quantitative and qualitative
understanding of organizational risks posed by
people, endpoints, data, and technologies.
Implement automated threat containment
operations to prevent the spread of threats
throughout the network.

5. OPEN ACCESS TO
INTERNAL NETWORKS
THROUGH EMAIL
An increased number of unmonitored
email accounts creates vulnerabilities to
the school's internal network through
human error, phishing and malware.
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
Centralize network monitoring.
DevProvide email filtering to your entire email
network to protect from phishing emails and
online threats
Enable email reporting functions to easily flag
and remove suspicious emails.
Implement Security awareness training

6. POINT FOCUSED
SECURITY PROGRAMS
A fragmented approach to cybersecurity,
with different Network based, VPN and
Fire wall tools can create security gaps,
redundancies, and inconsistencies,
making it difficult to detect and respond
to cybersecurity threats
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
Align people, processes and technology to a
single goal
Remove overlapping and/or unused
technologies
Develop security architecture that limits the
need for external API’s and integrations
Establish a single source of truth for your entire
security program.

7. FINALLY, SCORE AN A ON
MICROSOFT 365 A5 WITH DIFENDA .
To create your customized security solution, contact one of our
advisors.
GET STARTED: https://www.difenda.com/get-started/