Cyber Security for Education in Portugal

education industry cyber security

The Challenge

Whether it's hacktivists, reckless kids, disgruntled students or staff, or other malicious adversaries, the Education industry has suffered greatly from cyber attacks.

Hackers are looking to steal customer data, student data, credit card data, manipulate databases, and use your servers and networks as launching pads for further attacks.

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How we can help

Secmentis can help you proactively test your organization's security and defend your critical data through the following services:

What motivates cyber attacks?

  • Information Theft — cyber criminals want to steal customer and business-critical information
  • Espionage — cyber criminals want to monitor your activities and steal information
  • Hacktivism — cyber criminals want to make a political statement
  • Sabotage — cyber criminals want to blackmail or disrupt your business
  • Cyber Warfare — cyber criminals want to steal your business secrets, and use your systems as stepping stones

Examples of cyberattacks

The following are examples of cyber attacks in your industry:

  • South African university website hacked by Anonymous hackers
  • UK university target of revenge hack; results in huge data breach
  • Dozens of universities hacked by Team Ghostshell hacker group

Cost of A Data Breach for Education sector

$166 per capita

(source: Ponemon Institute)

Businesses we work with: Institutions, Universities, Private Universities, Public Universities, Colleges, Schools, Online learning platforms, MOOC platforms, Online courses platforms, International Education companies

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