Microsoft 365 for Education Cybersecurity Solutions

BENEFITS

Microsoft cybersecurity solutions

Defend your school’s devices and data with industry-leading tools that bring the digital security, privacy, and compliance needs of your students, teachers, and school districts to the forefront.
Empower more accessible and secure learning experiences at school and at home with cloud-powered intelligence and built-in cybersecurity features.
Build secure and seamless IT experiences across every educational device with tools that are optimized to connect across your existing software, apps, and platforms.
Transition to Microsoft products with confidence using cloud-connected deployment and management tools and on-demand support to simplify rollout and implementation.

Tools

Implement a suite of unified cybersecurity tools

Streamline deployment and management

Make educational technology simple to deploy and easy to update with a range of tools that IT and administrators can control from one cloud-based system.

Use secure, simple authentication

Employ a range of time-saving authentication options that make logging in faster, more convenient, and ultimately more secure for everyone.

Identify and investigate threats

Set up systems that stay vigilant 24/7 in detecting and containing cybersecurity threats that strike networks and devices in classrooms and across districts.

By the numbers

How Microsoft cybersecurity helps protect schools

More than 80% of malware attacks target the education sector. Defend your institution’s privacy and digital security with world-class cybersecurity solutions from Microsoft.

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“We're a school, so we don't have endless amounts of resources. Cybersecurity can tend to be a bit of a bottomless pit of money at times. So instead, we uplifted into the A5 offering with Microsoft, which gave us a lot of the tools.”

— Grant Joslin, ICT Infrastructure Manager, Newington College

“We use the capabilities and features within Microsoft Purview to make sure that confidential information is properly handled and help keep harmful content away from our students.”

— Randyll Newman, Supervisor of Student Data and Information Security, Prince William County Public Schools

Training and resources

Boost your knowledge

Explore templates, courses, and technical guides for using Microsoft tools to do everything from strengthening your general understanding of cybersecurity risks in the education sector to building a district-wide security strategy.

For IT professionals

Learning paths

Gain in-depth knowledge about all of the Microsoft cybersecurity, compliance, and identity solutions.

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For IT professionals

Microsoft Security Copilot

Empower your school with Microsoft Security Copilot, an AI-driven assistant designed to enhance your security and IT operations.

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For School leaders and educators

Student Security Operations Center

Explore resources to create a Student Security Operations Center (SOC) at your school to enhance institutional security while bridging a skills gap in cybersecurity.

Explore SOC resources

For IT professionals

Microsoft Defender

Learn how to use Microsoft Defender to the fullest with this training for those with an intermediate understanding.

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For decision-makers

K-12 cybersecurity training

In this free, one-hour course, learn about cybersecurity preparedness and practices to safeguard your school from cyberattacks.

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For everyone

Cybersecurity 101

Learn the basics of cybersecurity and how to protect your devices and technology.

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For everyone

K-12 cybersecurity conversation guide

Find out how to start conversations about cybersecurity and staying vigilant online.

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With the increased threats of cyberattack and security breaches, education and IT leaders are under tremendous pressure to keep student and faculty data safe, reduce exposure to risks, detect cyberattacks, and respond to cyberthreats. Read about the latest cybersecurity guidance, and tips for keeping your school digitally secure on the Microsoft Education blog.
Microsoft offers a unified portfolio of solutions to streamline management and simplify security of the IT environment with industry-aligned safety measures, essential for schools that operate with limited IT staff and finite budgets. Based on Zero Trust principles, these solutions make it easy for IT departments to secure their entire computing infrastructure. Microsoft 365 A5 provides industry-leading cybersecurity, management, and compliance tools built for teaching and learning. This includes tools such as Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Intune for Education, which streamline endpoint management and help secure user identities, devices, cloud resources, and data.
Microsoft 365 Defender is an industry-leading extended detection and response (XDR) platform. The Microsoft Defender family offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities to better protect your organization from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other cyberthreats.

Microsoft 365 Defender provides a unified XDR experience for the following products: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Discover and secure endpoint devices across your enterprise.
Microsoft Defender for Identity: Protect your on-premises identities with cloud-powered intelligence.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Help secure your email and Microsoft Teams with advanced protection against phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, and other cyberthreats.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Modernize how you secure your apps, protect your data, and elevate your app posture with software as a service security.

Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft 365 Defender.
Microsoft Intune for Education is a cloud-based endpoint management solution. It manages user access and simplifies app and device management across your many devices, including mobile devices, desktop computers, and virtual endpoints. You can protect access and data on organization-owned and personal devices. And Intune has compliance and reporting features that support the Zero Trust cybersecurity model.

Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft Intune for Education.
Microsoft Purview is a family of data governance, risk, and compliance solutions that can help your organization govern, protect, and manage your entire data estate. Microsoft Purview solutions provide integrated coverage and help address recent increases in remote user connectivity, fragmentation of data across organizations, and blurring of traditional IT management roles.
Visit Microsoft Learn to get more information about Microsoft Purview.
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