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

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

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

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.

BENEFITS

Modernize education securely

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Optimize cloud-enabled infrastructure to foster agility and adoption.

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

Education / 3,500 students and 300 employees

Achieving CMMC compliance with the Zero Trust Exchange

Executing a strategy for building a secure research environment

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CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

Education / 3,000 students and 400 employees

Taking a quantum leap to fast, secure access for remote users

“Once we decided to deploy Zscaler, we were up and running in a weekend.”

- Justin Schlenker, Enterprise Applications Director, Tiffin University

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CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

Education / 1.5 million students across 115 school districts

Securing access from anywhere for staff and 1.5 million students

“School districts have to be able to scale to meet the growing demands of each campus. Zscaler is an ideal solution to meet these challenges.”

- Chris Beal, CISO, MCNC

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Taking a quantum leap to fast, secure access for remote users

Secures access from anywhere for staff and 1.5 million students

OUR PLATFORM

Secure collaborative learning experiences for students and faculty with the power and scale of the Zero Trust Exchange

Cyberthreat Protection

Holistic approach to securing users, workloads, and devices

Data Protection

Full TLS/SSL inspection at scale for complete data protection across the SSE platform

Zero Trust Connectivity

Connect to apps, not networks, to prevent lateral movement with ZTNA

Digital Experience Management

Identify and resolve performance issues

Securely connects authorized users, devices, and workloads using business policies

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

Channel

Service Providers

CONTRACT VEHICLES

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

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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