Education
As Internet use and e-mail communication become more commonplace in the classroom, school systems throughout the world are making e-mail addresses available to both staff and students to facilitate communication. Each institution, whether it is a publicly funded state university or a K-12 school system, faces numerous challenges when protecting their messaging systems. Grade schools and secondary schools are subject to the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), a law which addresses concerns about Internet access in public schools and libraries. Colleges and universities face the challenge of maintaining large e-mail networks with diverse security needs from different departments requiring varied anti-spam and security settings to staff and students opening unsafe messages and attachments.
Additionally, educational institutions such as medical and business schools are becoming subject to government regulations such as HIPAA and GLBA. In the frenzy of school work and classes, students may not think whether the outbound messages they send are secure or compliant and it becomes the task of the IT administrator to enforce those policies.
Budgets and administration time constraints also play a role in protecting the network at many educational institutions. These school systems, colleges and universities must carefully evaluate solutions that will provide them with comprehensive messaging security, requiring minimal administration time and high ROI. CipherTrust’s product suite offers educational institutions the following benefits:
- Comprehensive spam, virus, phishing and other inbound threat protection
- Outbound policy and compliance capabilities
- Easy to deploy and manage solutions with centralized policy management capabilities
- Delivery of confidential and high-volume information and files
- Reduced costs and improved operational efficiency by replacing desktop solutions with one platform
- Authentication of senders and recipients to prevent malicious activity
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