Zscaler for Education

Enabling IT modernization to protect against cyberthreats and provide a secure, seamless user experience from any device, anywhere.

We support K-12 and higher education institutions in their mission to transform and modernize securely. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform enables a cost-effective IT architecture for the seamless and secure exchange of information, protecting against cyberthreats and enhancing the user experience.

WHY IT MATTERS

A better way to stop ransomware

Ransomware remains a major threat, with an increase in attacks via encrypted mechanisms creating a blind spot in many school systems. Attacks are commonly crafted to each target, whether a specific school or even a specific administrator, exploiting gaps in traditional security solutions. Gain 100% visibility and a better approach to eliminating these common blind spots and stopping ransomware cold.

Secure Your Users
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Secure Your Users

Zscaler securely connects users to applications from anywhere, improves user experience for a hybrid workforce and online classroom, boosts visibility, and better protects data to manage cyber risk.

Secure Your Workloads
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Secure Your Workloads

Zscaler allows organizations to securely connect applications to the internet and other applications in the data center and across clouds with a zero trust architecture that eliminates attack surface, prevents lateral movement, and reduces risk of breaches.

Secure Your IoT/OT
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Secure Your IoT/OT

Zscaler provides seamless, secure remote access for IoT/OT systems to protect government assets from cyberattacks, maximize uptime and productivity, and enable safe IoT/OT integration.

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BENEFITS

Modernize education securely

Eliminate cyberthreats
Eliminate cyberthreats

Apply zero trust principles as well as AI-powered cyberthreat and data loss prevention services with the world’s most comprehensive cyberthreat protection solution—eliminating the attack surface, preventing compromise, halting lateral movement, and stopping data loss.

Protect your data
Protect your data

Prevent data loss from users, SaaS apps, and public cloud infrastructure due to accidental exposure, theft, or ransomware—Zscaler provides cloud DLP, cloud access security broker (CASB), secure posture management, and browser isolation.

Improve user experience
Improve user experience

Enable employees and third parties to access apps securely from anywhere—with the visibility and control to optimize their digital experience from device to ISP to cloud proxy to app and back without the need for firewalls, VPNs, backhauling, or siloed management tools.

Reduce cost and complexity
Reduce cost and complexity

Eliminate legacy security and networking technology costs, including firewalls, VPNs, and the additional overhead that comes with keeping them up to date.

USE CASES

A cloud-first approach for education

Enhance user experience

Provide users a consistent and seamless experience when connecting to the internet or application from any device or location.

Optimize security

Use policy to securely connect users to the internet externally or to internally managed applications.

Reduce costs

Reduce capex and scale up or down as needed with a per-user price devoid of data caps or bandwidth limits.

Reduce risk

Deliver consistent protection, regardless of user location or device, simplifying risk management.

Accelerate IT

Optimize cloud-enabled infrastructure to foster agility and adoption.

Secure shared services

Eliminate the need for security stacks through multitenant architecture, delivering efficiencies and threat information sharing at scale and improving cyber defense.

Achieving CMMC compliance with the Zero Trust Exchange
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES
University of South Carolina
Education / 3,500 students and 300 employees

Achieving CMMC compliance with the Zero Trust Exchange

“Zscaler reduces the attack surface and user errors that typically present security issues.”

 

- Marshall Hollis, Systems Architect, University of South Carolina

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES
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Education / 1 million users, 2 million devices

Enabling a safe, CIPA-compliant learning environment

“We needed a holistic solution that would strengthen our visibility ... That’s exactly what we found in Zscaler.”

 

- Demond Waters, CISO, New York City Department of Education

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES
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Education / 28,000 students, 2,500 faculty, and 5,000 staff

Providing secure remote internet, SaaS, and private app access

“We've experienced a net gain in usability, reliability, and security."

 

- Dan Han CISO, Virginia Commonwealth University

Achieving CMMC compliance with the Zero Trust Exchange
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Partner Ecosystem for Education

Through our key partnerships we are enabling the secure and seamless exchange of information for K-12 and Higher Education.

PARTNERS

Technology integrations and supported platforms simplify deployment and management

Alliances
aws
crowdstrike
microsoft
vmware
splunk
servicenow
Channel
carahsoft
World Wide Technology, Inc.
shi
CDW
Service Providers
AT&T
Verizon
MetTel
Comcast
Lumen

CONTRACT VEHICLES

Zscaler proudly serves K-12 and Higher Education institutions through a variety of contract vehicles:

Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program
mhec
VASCUPP
New Jersey School Boards Association
E&I Cooperative Services
OMNIA Partners

CMMC 2.0 Compliance for Research Funding

Federal government R&D funding to higher education topped US$49 billion in 2022. Roughly $7.4 billion came from the Department of Defense, which requires universities to meet CMMC 2.0 compliance. Learn how the Zero Trust Exchange can help your school comply.

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