Cybersecurity solutions
Explore secure classroom technology
Establish a simple, secure, and efficient technology environment that maximizes learning with integrated tools in Microsoft 365 Education.
BENEFITS
Microsoft cybersecurity solutions
- Defend your school’s devices and data with industry-leading tools that bring the digital security, privacy, and compliance needs of your students, teachers, and school districts to the forefront.
- Empower more accessible and secure learning experiences at school and at home with cloud-powered intelligence and built-in cybersecurity features.
- Build secure and seamless IT experiences across every educational device with tools that are optimized to connect across your existing software, apps, and platforms.
- Transition to Microsoft products with confidence using cloud-connected deployment and management tools and on-demand support to simplify rollout and implementation.
Tools
Implement a suite of unified cybersecurity tools
Streamline deployment and management
Make educational technology simple to deploy and easy to update with a range of tools that IT and administrators can control from one cloud-based system.
Use secure, simple authentication
Employ a range of time-saving authentication options that make logging in faster, more convenient, and ultimately more secure for everyone.
Identify and investigate threats
Set up systems that stay vigilant 24/7 in detecting and containing cybersecurity threats that strike networks and devices in classrooms and across districts.
By the numbers
How Microsoft cybersecurity helps protect schools
More than 80% of malware attacks target the education sector. Defend your institution’s privacy and digital security with world-class cybersecurity solutions from Microsoft.
Microsoft 365 for Education
Safeguard digital learning
All Microsoft 365 Education plans offer built-in management and cybersecurity tools to help protect against threats. The A5 plan allows you to integrate more advanced cybersecurity measures that make it easy to guard, manage, and maximize learning and productivity for students, teachers, and staff. Find out which plan has the right protections for your institution.
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Training and resources
Boost your knowledge
Explore templates, courses, and technical guides for using Microsoft tools to do everything from strengthening your general understanding of cybersecurity risks in the education sector to building a district-wide security strategy.
Frequently asked questions
- With the increased threats of cyberattack and security breaches, education and IT leaders are under tremendous pressure to keep student and faculty data safe, reduce exposure to risks, detect cyberattacks, and respond to cyberthreats. There are key steps you can take to improve your school's cybersecurity posture. Download the e-book to learn more.
- Microsoft offers a unified portfolio of solutions to streamline management and simplify security of the IT environment with industry-aligned safety measures, essential for schools that operate with limited IT staff and finite budgets. Based on Zero Trust principles, these solutions make it easy for IT departments to secure their entire computing infrastructure. Microsoft 365 A5 provides industry-leading cybersecurity, management, and compliance tools built for teaching and learning. This includes tools such as Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Intune for Education, which streamline endpoint management and help secure user identities, devices, cloud resources, and data.
- Microsoft 365 Defender is an industry-leading extended detection and response (XDR) platform. The Microsoft Defender family offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities to better protect your organization from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other cyberthreats.
Microsoft 365 Defender provides a unified XDR experience for the following products: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Discover and secure endpoint devices across your enterprise.
- Microsoft Defender for Identity: Protect your on-premises identities with cloud-powered intelligence.
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Help secure your email and Microsoft Teams with advanced protection against phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, and other cyberthreats.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Modernize how you secure your apps, protect your data, and elevate your app posture with software as a service security.
Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft 365 Defender. - Microsoft Intune for Education is a cloud-based endpoint management solution. It manages user access and simplifies app and device management across your many devices, including mobile devices, desktop computers, and virtual endpoints. You can protect access and data on organization-owned and personal devices. And Intune has compliance and reporting features that support the Zero Trust cybersecurity model.
Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft Intune for Education.
- Microsoft Purview is a family of data governance, risk, and compliance solutions that can help your organization govern, protect, and manage your entire data estate. Microsoft Purview solutions provide integrated coverage and help address recent increases in remote user connectivity, fragmentation of data across organizations, and blurring of traditional IT management roles.
Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft Purview.
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Microsoft Reimagine
Learn more about the announcements from Reimagine Education, including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Copilot offerings.
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Mitigate cybersecurity risks with Microsoft 365 A5
Provide a safe and secure learning experience in a single cost-effective solution.
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Cybersecurity awareness keeps students safer
A common misconception is that young people who grew up with tablets and touchscreens are inherently tech savvy.
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Use Microsoft Stream for secure video sharing
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Isabel Carey and Jonathan Lipsitz, The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft 365 Education A5 Security For K–12 Schools: Improved Security Posture And Cost Savings Enabled By Microsoft 365 Education A5, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, July 2023.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed seven representatives from a total of four school systems and surveyed 67 respondents with experience using Microsoft 365 Education A5.
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