Higher Education - IoT Security Compliance

Challenge

Complying with cybersecurity regulations due to underfunding and the complexity of maintaining uniform cybersecurity practices across diverse, decentralized structures

Rising compliance costs

0%

year-over-year increase in cybersecurity compliance costs for UK higher education institutions

Multiple frameworks

0%

of institutions need to demonstrate compliance with at least six information security and data privacy frameworks

Compliance reporting

0%

of institutions spend over 1,500 staff hours annually on compliance reporting

Solution

Cylera delivers the necessary IoT asset visibility, tracking, and security management higher education institutions need to ensure compliance and facilitate audit processes.

University IT and compliance team reviewing IoT device security policies and regulatory standards, ensuring cybersecurity compliance with UK higher education regulations through asset visibility and threat management.
Full Visibility, Strong IoT Device Security Governance, and Efficient Audit Management
“Cylera provides us with the essential IoT asset visibility, tracking, and threat management needed to ensure compliance with UK cybersecurity standards and regulations. Their platform simplifies our audit processes and enhances our overall security posture, making it an invaluable tool for our university.” 
Director, Information Security
Large Private University

Optimize and automate cybersecurity audits for IoT systems in higher education

University students and faculty working with IoT-connected robotics in a higher education lab, securely monitored and classified on the campus network to ensure accurate asset tracking and regulatory compliance.
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IoT Device Inventory Visibility

With Cylera, all IoT devices in your higher education environment are accurately captured and classified, preventing errors in audits and avoiding compliance penalties from inaccurate or incomplete asset inventories.

Attack Surface Management

With Cylera, you gain complete visibility into the characteristics and usage patterns of all connected IoT devices in higher education. The platform identifies security issues, ranks actual threats, and tracks remediation actions to reduce the attack surface and facilitate audit processes.

An IT administrator in a university data center monitoring IoT device activity and network security to ensure compliance with higher education cybersecurity regulations.
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A university IT administrator reviewing IoT device cybersecurity compliance evidence with his IT team on the Cylera platform, which analyzes IoT device inventory, vulnerabilities and risks, threats, and network security to help enable compliance with higher education cybersecurity regulations and standards.
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Robust Analytics

With Cylera's analytics, the task of gathering compliance evidence for higher education IoT devices is simplified. It brings together all IoT device inventory, vulnerability, threat, and resolution information into an audit-ready format.

Auditing Support

Cylera facilitates the sharing of unified and consistent IoT device inventory, security, and operational data among stakeholders in higher education, making audit preparation more efficient. This boosts audit efficiency, minimizes non-compliance risks, and ensures a more secure and reliable operational environment.

Higher education IT administrators reviewing IoT device security and compliance data using the Cylera platform, which helps ensure accurate IoT device inventory and cybersecurity management and streamlined audit preparation.
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