FORTIFYING CAMPUS CYBER SECURITY
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
Increased Cyber Risk in a Digital World
In the Australian higher education system, the challenges of growth in digitisation and reliance on networked devices are paramount. This trend significantly increases the cyber security risk due to the number of devices used by students and staff, both on-campus and remotely. The industry’s storage and processing of sensitive data, including academic research and intellectual property, heightens susceptibility to cyberattacks.
Crowdstrike’s threat intel shows that there are
232 active threat groups being tracked globally, of which,
14 are actively targeting Australian higher education for a variety of different motives. That means, of the total amount of known threat actors globally,
8% of global threat actors are going after a sector within a country that represents 0.3% of the global population.
Selected Case Studies: Cyber Security for higher education
Download Sekuro and CrowdStrike’s Higher Education industry snapshot to learn how to achieve cyber resilience and maturity in the face of rising cyberthreats.
The snapshot covers:
- 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.