Cybersecurity Solutions for Higher Education | Industry Snapshot
The threat landscape and learnings from Australian universities
Threat Intel Highlights
232 active threat groups
14 threat groups targeting Australian higher education
8% of known threat actors targeting 0.3% of world population
Threat Intel Highlights
232 active threat groups
14 threat groups targeting Australian higher education
8% of known threat actors targeting 0.3% of world population
Across the Australian higher education sector, rapid digitisation and growing reliance on networked devices have become defining challenges. Universities and colleges now support large, distributed environments, with students and staff accessing systems both on campus and remotely. This expansion significantly increases the cyber security attack surface.
At the same time, higher education institutions store and process highly sensitive data, including student records, academic research, and valuable intellectual property. These factors combine to make higher education a prime target for cyberattacks, reinforcing the need for robust, sector-specific cybersecurity solutions for higher education.
Download Sekuro and CrowdStrike’s Higher Education Industry Snapshot to understand how institutions can build cyber resilience and maturity amid rising cyber threats. The snapshot explores the evolving risk landscape and practical approaches to strengthening cybersecurity solutions for higher education, including:
- Recent and emerging threats impacting the sector, including findings from CrowdStrike’s dark web monitoring
- How Queensland’s University of Technology has curbed reactive, incident response and ‘fire fighting’ and shifted focus to strategic and proactive, cyber resilience initiatives
- How Charles Sturt University have gained the expertise it needs to stay on top of threats and attain holistic visibility across its environment, via a virtual SOC model
- How the University of Wollongong bolstered security across more than 13,000 endpoints, including across servers and international campuses, detecting and thwarting malicious incidents within seconds.