Cybersecurity in
education

OKIOK works with universities, colleges and school service centres, from identity governance and incident response to hundreds of penetration tests.

Challenges

Protection of student and staff personal information
Protection of research material and intellectual property
Complex identity and access management: large, heterogeneous populations, users with multiple personas, staff mobility, dynamic assignments, and periodic mass onboarding and offboarding of students
Complex technological environment
Highly distributed responsibilities
Open networks, BYOD and ransomware risk

Identity and access management (IAM)
Deployment of RAC/M Identity in higher education to strengthen IAM maturity and processes, including the sector’s hardest problems: a highly varied user population and the multiple identities one person can hold at once
Deployment of RAC/M Identity at a school service centre to strengthen IAM maturity and processes, including the several identities one person can hold, and access granted the moment staff are dispatched to cover then revoked when the assignment ends
Secure file transfer
Deployment of S-Filer Portal at multiple educational institutions
Penetration tests
Hundreds of external and internal tests on institutional systems
Cybersecurity consulting
Governance engagements evidencing who holds which access, and on whose authority
Incident response
Dozens of response and recovery engagements at institutions across the sector

Items above reflect work delivered across multiple client engagements.

From student and research data to open networks and yearly identity turnover, let’s focus on your organization’s priorities.