Tenable

Reducing Cyber Risk in Education

Cyber attackers' interest in the education sector is growing. As attacks increase, education institutions need a solution that protects them from escalating cyber threats and proactively exposes vulnerabilities across their infrastructure to reduce cyber risk.

Tenable is committed to NERCOMP’s mission of fostering innovation and collaboration in education institutions. With industry leading solutions to address cyber risk, we strive to protect education institutions from cyber attacks and ensure facility, student and faculty data remain safe and secure.

Why Choose Tenable

Tenable is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode an organization's value, reputation and trust. Tenable is uniquely positioned to help education institutions reduce cyber risk through Tenable One, an end-to-end exposure management platform. Tenable One radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, enabling education institutions to protect against cyber threats. Using Tenable One, schools can take a proactive stance towards cybersecurity and address critical concerns, such as protecting against ransomware and data breaches.

As education institutions tackle budget and staffing constraints, managing diverse and decentralized IT environments, and outdated systems, Tenable one provides schools with full visibility into their entire infrastructure, enabling them to anticipate threats and focus efforts to prevent likely attacks. Using insights from the platform, schools can also communicate cyber risk, measure progress over time, and communicate results to stakeholders.

How Tenable Helps

Education institutions often face unique challenges that make understanding and reducing cyber risk difficult and time consuming. Tenable helps education institutions overcome these challenges with cutting edge technologies to expose and close infrastructure weaknesses before an attack takes place. These challenges include:

Legacy systems: Education institutions often have legacy systems that are not designed to withstand modern threats. Configuration errors and complex IT infrastructures can hide vulnerabilities that attackers are aware of and seek to exploit.The Tenable One platform provides a consolidated platform, giving visibility into the entire infrastructure, including security gaps caused by legacy systems. This helps schools quickly identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and uses risk scores to aid in prioritization and remediation efforts.
Diverse IT environments and infrastructure: Education institutions often have diverse and decentralized IT environments with different campuses, departments, variety of devices, operating systems, and more. This makes it challenging to have comprehensive (and real time) visibility across their modern attack surface and track changes and risk.

Tenable One provides a consolidated platform, giving visibility into the entire attack surface from IT infrastructure to cloud environments and more, across multiple sites and geographic locations. This helps schools quickly identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and use risk scores to aid in prioritization and remediation efforts.

Limited Resources: Education institutions often have limited financial and staffing resources and must juggle competing priorities. IT can often be understaffed, siloed, or lack expertise, and must manage a limited budget across varying priorities, at times making cybersecurity a secondary focus.Tenable One takes a proactive stance to cybersecurity, allowing schools to focus their limited resources on patching the most important vulnerabilities before they become breaches. With vulnerability prioritization, clear metrics, streamlined workflows and full visibility, schools can mitigate attacks and dramatically reduce the number of incidents they need to respond to.
Third-party vendors: A heavy reliance on third-party vendors to support IT efforts leads to lax control over the enforcement of policies, increased complexity due to the unique security policies of each vendor and an inability to ensure that each vendor is complying with relevant requirements.Tenable solutions can scan third-party networks to identify vulnerabilities and determine whether vendors are complying with industry standards. Tenable is also able to assess the vendor's compliance with industry standards and regulations through the compliance management module.

Tenable One Resources:

Website - https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-one
Datasheet - https://www.tenable.com/data-sheets/tenable-one

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