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By leveraging edge computing, Schneider Electric enables higher education institutions to enhance their cybersecurity posture.
Cybersecurity is a critical concern in higher education, and institutions face a daunting challenge. They are frequent targets of malware attacks, with a disturbingly slow recovery time compared to other sectors.
“Campuses are treasure troves of sensitive information collected from students, administrators, staff members and others,” Schneider Electric’s Adam Compton writes. “They’re gold mines of intellectual property and proprietary data. There’s no doubt they’re vulnerable—the problem is, the systems and edge computing infrastructure in place don’t match the threat.”
According to the US Department of Education: “Cyber threats represent one potential human-caused threat that can impact schools and (institutions of higher education), with potentially devastating consequences. Cyberattacks can be incredibly costly to respond to and recover from and can disrupt operations and education services, cause immense harm to the victims involved, leave a school or IHE vulnerable to further attacks, cause legal liabilities and damage relationships between the school or IHE and the surrounding community.”
In other words, It can be a really big deal, a big challenge and for solution providers, an opportunity to deliver critical value.
Schneider Electric offers a strong approach with cutting-edge IT solutions. By leveraging edge computing, Schneider Electric enables higher education institutions to enhance their cybersecurity posture. Particularly in a multi-layered security approach, solutions should incorporate both physical and logical monitoring of IT infrastructure.
Moreover, as Compton notes, Schneider Electric champions the zero trust cybersecurity philosophy: limiting access and permissions based on the user. Focus on both physical security, which is the first line of defense, and logical security, which includes aspects such as the cloud and end-to-end monitoring software, is essential.
But that’s only one piece. Others include robust monitoring, design, maintenance, and training. Schneider Electric’s partners can access its cybersecurity services, which include all of those elements.
“The IT teams that succeed in protecting their systems are the ones that take a strategic, integrated approach to security, considering both cybersecurity and physical security as equally important parts of the equation,” Compton writes.
