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Higher Education has been identified as a sector of concern by the UK National Cyber Security Centre and is faced with many unique challenges. These range from onboarding 10’s of thousands of new staff and students each year – all of which need secure credential management and training – to managing the free flow of information required by academics with secure processes and practices. The Covid lockdowns highlighted just how important the digital estate of a university has become to business continuity.

At Talion, we have invested heavily in understanding this unique cybersecurity ecosystem, and we’ve developed a hybrid approach that allows HE institutions to have real input into how to use their cybersecurity budgets in the most effective way.

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82% of Higher Education institutions missed out on identifying unauthorised access of files and networks by students in the past 12 months.

We provide cyber security for…

Universities.

We ensure the specific security needs of educational institutions are met.

At Talion, our considerable investment in understanding the challenges of the Higher Education sector has resulted in us working with some of the world’s leading universities to re-shape the future.

We’re honoured to have Professor Madeline Carr of Global Politics & Cyber Security as a board member. Madeline not only acts as a primary point of leadership, but provides us with strategic insight from her extended research at UCL into cyber security in the HE sector.

As a result, we can share actionable advice and relevant resources to best serve our customers in Higher Education.

We’re on the Public Procurement Gateway, utilising G-Cloud 13 and Digital Outcomes – feel free to contact us for more information. We understand your challenges and we’re keen to work collaboratively to support you.

Working in partnership with
UCISA.

We’ve chosen to partner with UCISA – a member led organisation for digital practitioners at UK universities.

UCISA brings people together to share common challenges and best practice within Higher Education, helping individuals transform teaching, learning and research through the power of digital.

This partnership has been central to our commitment at Talion to deeply understand the cyber security struggles of Higher Education and become a trusted brand within the network, sharing and gaining valuable insight. Using the knowledge gained from this partnership, we have been able to work closely with the HE sector to better serve our customers, and we look forward to continuing to strengthen this relationship.

“We’ve seen a significant increase in attacks on UK Higher Education over the past few years, and it’s clear that more needs to be done to coordinate threat intelligence in this sector. We’ve got people holding back a tidal wave of malicious actors with a swiss army knife. They need more support.”

– Madeline Carr, Professor of Global Politics & Cyber Security at UCL

What Cyber Security Challenges does your University face?

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“We’re concerned about missing unknown threats.”
“Our security team are overwhelmed with security alerts.”
“We lack effective detection, monitoring and response.”
“We need to make our budget go further.”

Key Resources

Discover our #HigherEducation Cyber Security Research & Insights

6 Unique Cyber Security Challenges in Higher Education

Professor Madeline Carr at UCL shares the top 6 security challenges she’s highlighted when working collaboratively with her research team, the NCSC and UCISA, from budgetary constraints, to lack of communication and support.

Cyber Threat Analysis for Higher Education

Every quarter we release a Cyber Threat Analysis Report with notable events, threats & statistics that emerged across the Higher Education cyber landscape and what you can do about it. Receive a complimentary copy from last quarter below.

OSINTGlass Service

We offer a personalised OSINT report tailored to your university, highlighting your online footprint and key risks. Plus, expert advice on reducing your risk exposure.

Why Talion?

We provide all the tools, people, and processes to monitor and detect attacks before real damage is done.

Automate remediation

Quickly remove devices or systems from the network before they can cause damage.

Investigate & detect threats rapidly

Network traffic analysis improves network traffic visibility and in turn delivers rapid investigation and threat detection.

Understand your threat coverage

Our proprietary Threat Coverage Modelling enables customers to understand their security monitoring coverage in the context of the methods a cyber attacker would use.

Expose new threats

Using our data lake capabilities and our analysts skilled knowledge of how threat actors work we can perform automated and manual threat hunts across our entire data set.

Detect anomalous user behaviour fast

User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) utilises machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect anomalous user behaviour that may pose an insider threat.

Understand the threat of high-risk insiders

Enhanced user monitoring detects the threats posed by high-risk insiders.

Whatever your business needs, we have a solution that will fit them.

Security solutions you can see

We don’t do black-box solutions. You have full visibility across absolutely everything that goes on in our SOC, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Protecting Your Business

We’re your cyber security partner, which means we operate in a way that works for you, whether that’s working through responses together, or simply briefing you on the threats that really need your attention.

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