IT security in education
Teachers, students, staff, and families need access to learning resources—at any time, from many possible devices—whether they're in the classroom, the faculty lounge, at home, or on the road. This anywhere, anytime access makes collaboration on class projects easier and helps students get the individualized instruction they need. And with this greater access comes greater vulnerability, which can make it difficult to adequately protect sensitive information against theft, loss, and cyber attacks.
Fortunately, with Microsoft IT security in education solutions, your IT department doesn't have to choose between improving access to the files and networks for staff and students and minimizing your security risks—the right security software and services can help you do both at once.
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"We’re realizing [US] $350,000 annual cost savings … and have drastically reduced our total cost of ownership by $1.2 million, which is crucial, given the fairly extreme financial constraints in education."
Terence O'Leary Assistant Superintendent for Informational and Instructional Technology, St. Lucie County Public Schools | |  | |  |
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Provide more secure email messaging
Your students and staff rely on email to stay connected, keep everyone on track, and provide documentation when necessary. You can help protect your institution's email messages from vulnerabilities, with Microsoft security solutions for education:
Help prevent unauthorized use of confidential information. Enhance email security with multiple scan engines that work for both on-premises and cloud-based solutions. Enable anti-spam protection and anti-malware protection. Enforce policy-based restrictions, such as auto-archiving or document deletion, on email message content and attachments.
Provide more secure portal and document collaboration
Sharing ideas, research, and contributions, and jointly editing documents online, has become essential in today's learning environments. There are several ways you can help provide more protected access to the information that staff, teachers, and students need to collaborate:
Help secure sensitive documents by storing them in Microsoft SharePoint document libraries. Better protect information based on document content, location, and user identity. Allow users more secure identity-based remote access to your education organization portal through Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010. Enforce policy-based restrictions, such as auto-archiving or document deletion, on email message content and attachments.
Provide more security for endpoints
Many students now carry their own laptops (or other mobile PC devices) to class and beyond, as do teachers and staff. Data on laptops, portable media, and other endpoints is notoriously vulnerable to threats—both inside and outside of your institution's firewall.
Data on endpoints is also subject to physical vulnerability. If removable media is lost or stolen, or if PC hardware is decommissioned, encryption provided by Windows BitLocker and BitLocker To Go, included with Windows 7 Enterprise, helps keeps documents and passwords safe. Microsoft education desktop security solutions with Windows 7 can help protect this data:
Help defend laptops and portable media against advanced and emerging threats. Minimize web-based risks with multiple detection technologies, such as URL filtering, anti-malware software, and intrusion prevention.
Provide more secure identity and access management
It's also important to help protect your institution's data against administrative vulnerabilities associated with identities, roles, and passwords. With Microsoft Identity and Access Management, you can enable IT administrators to centrally manage multiple identity stores while providing staff and students with self-help password resets. Help automate the entire identity life cycle management process. Enable IT administrators to apply policies across the organization, using built-in workflow. Help lower help desk costs with the Windows operating system and self-service group membership management.
Get started on an IT security solution for your school or university
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 Security solutions for education Security solutions for education from Microsoft dovetail seamlessly with your institution’s content management, email, and network-access applications to provide a security-enhanced, efficient technology infrastructure. | Products | |
 Windows 7Windows 7 helps make users productive anywhere; enhances security, reliability, and control; and streamlines PC management.  Microsoft ForefrontManaging hundreds of locally configured desktops for schools/multi-campus institutions can be complex, time-consuming, and expensive. An optimized organization-wide configuration can minimize security risks, streamline IT management, and conserve energy.  Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010Microsoft SharePoint Server offers an integrated suite of server capabilities for building educational portals. Portals provide easy access to curriculum resources, student records, and classroom materials and activities. | Videos and Webcasts | |
 Business-ready security for your schoolHelp protect anywhere, anytime access. Microsoft business-ready security can help schools protect their assets and infrastructure while addressing shrinking budgets and increased regulatory pressure. |
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