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Highlights
- Educational institutions aim to enhance their ability to withstand cyber threats. This goal can be achieved by implementing regular governance and adhering to standard cybersecurity practices.
- TCS’ Digital Security as a Service helps educational institutes improve their security maturity through advanced consulting and technology capabilities.
- The service ensures seamless security for educational institutes by identifying necessary interventions and implementing 360-degree monitoring, cyber resilience, risk mitigation, and remediation.
Overview
Educational institutes are looking to improve their cyber resilience.
Achieving this will require them to institute continuous governance and standard cyber hygiene practices. What also needs to be ensured is that the security and governance practices are upheld to elevate an institute’s cybersecurity posture. This will not only minimize the risk of cyberattacks but also drive proactive incident prevention, which will, in turn, reduce the costs associated with reactive incident management.
TCS’ Digital Security as a Service helps educational institutes improve their security maturity through advanced consulting and technology capabilities. We cater to the diverse requirements of educational institutes to safeguard, promote, and incorporate cybersecurity vigilance across their campuses. TCS offers frameworks and pre-defined accelerators to fast-track the process, identifying necessary interventions and implementing specific measures to ensure security for your institute seamlessly.
Solution
TCS offers three tiers of maturity for educational institutions.
In recent times, educational institutes across the globe have faced cybersecurity concerns ranging from ransomware attacks, phishing emails, business email compromise, distributed denial of service attacks, and data breaches. Educational institutes, therefore, need to embrace a cybersecurity culture holistically rather than focus on deploying fragmented point technology.
TCS’ Digital Security as a Service is an end-to-end, cloud-enabled, data-driven governance and management system that continuously recognizes and detects threats to drive timely response and recovery while preventing future attacks. TCS provides a range of platform-based offerings to reduce the operational and management overhead for educational institutes in acquiring diverse tools and technologies necessary to weld together a holistic service.
We propose a phased adoption across the following stages:
Cyber hygiene: Adopt a pre-identified set of controls critical to achieving a hygiene security posture by implementing essential protection against common attacks.
Cyber advanced: Drive catalog-based implementation with prioritized services and next-level security controls required for a phased adoption.
Cyber best-in-class: Implement mature security with significant capabilities in cybersecurity along with the best-in-class controls to reduce the effect of zero-day exploits and defend against advanced industry-specific attacks.
An overview of TCS’ Digital Security as a Service
Benefits
TCS Digital Security as a Service ensures the highest level of cybersecurity and improved agility at educational institutes.
Even as the education space witnesses rapid digitalization and virtualization, industry players must tackle several challenges. The lack of adequate IT security policy and governance for campus security management can not only put crucial data at risk but also bring core operations of the institute to a standstill. With TCS’ offering, educational institutes are assured of the following benefits:
360-degree monitoring: Improve security monitoring capabilities and protect your applications from external threats by proactive monitoring and tracking to detect anomalous activities and trigger timely response.
Cyber resilience: Establish and cultivate a culture of cybersecurity hygiene across the workforce, students, and other stakeholders such as partners by organizing regular cyber awareness programs.
Risk mitigation and remediation: Secure the digital identities and accesses of all the entities by securing the endpoints. Keep ransomware and phishing attacks at bay by assessing and resolving open vulnerabilities of the applications and infrastructure, especially where personal devices and open internet are used for connecting to the institute’s IT systems.
Cost-saving: Save IT management costs by avoiding cyberattacks and leveraging multiple options for cybersecurity platform-based offerings and their variants as per requirements.
The TCS advantage
TCS brings a range of differentiators to an engagement.
By partnering with us, educational institutions can gain from:
Investment in education: TCS is committed to providing students with continued access to education through cutting-edge technological capabilities. With the current pace of change in the education sector impacting a majority of institutions worldwide, we ensure a seamless and secure digital learning experience for all our partners.
Continuous innovation: TCS’ offerings emphasize innovation for the future by continuously enhancing platforms with market-redefining capabilities. We have invested exclusively in creating centers of excellence across all technology and products.
Focus on research and technology: Our partnership with over 180 universities across the globe as part of our co-innovation network allows us to build the future of education and research. Technology innovations are our core strength, which help our customers overcome business challenges, create exponential value, and accelerate their digital transformation programs.
Security services: Our security services kits and pre-defined accelerators fast-track implementation and offer access to ISO27001 and SOC2-certified threat management centers worldwide.
