External exposure for institutions where open networks meet sensitive data.
Education institutions live with a structural tension. The mission is open access: to research, to learning materials, to scholarly collaboration. The data they hold is sensitive: student records, financial aid information, research IP, health-center data. Generic exposure platforms built around closed-network corporate IT don't fit the surface shape education actually has. Deepinfo handles the scale, the sprawl, and the brand-defense breadth education work requires.
Open by design, sensitive in content.
University external surfaces are inherently large and decentralized. Each department often runs its own infrastructure. Research labs spin up their own systems. Student organizations register subdomains. The starting inventory in any university security operation is rarely complete; the discovery gap is what attackers exploit.
The data behind that surface is highly sensitive. Student personally-identifiable information falls under FERPA in the US and equivalent regulations elsewhere. Research IP is targeted by nation-state actors, particularly in technology, life-sciences, and defense-adjacent research areas. Health-center systems carry HIPAA exposure. Financial aid systems carry payment-data exposure. The combination of broad surface and sensitive content creates compounded risk.
Deepinfo handles surface scale and applies sub-feature framing scoped to education's specific exposure shape. EASM's discovery surfaces shadow IT across departments; CTI's credential monitoring catches breach exposure for institutional accounts; BRP catches the brand-impersonation campaigns that target prospective students and donors during application and giving cycles.
Four platform capabilities, framed for education security workflows.
Surface discovery across decentralized departments. Continuous scanning at university scale. Credential exposure for institutional accounts. Brand defense for application and donor cycles.
Surface discovery across decentralized departments.
EASM's Smart Asset Discovery surfaces assets across departments, research labs, student organizations, and inherited infrastructure. Critical for institutions whose IT footprint grew organically rather than centrally.
Continuous scanning at university scale.
Seven-layer scanning across every monitored asset. Drift detection on every change. Historical state preserved per layer. The platform handles surface sizes that exceed most corporate environments.
Credential exposure for institutional accounts.
CTI's Employee Email Breach Monitoring covers institutional email addresses against breach corpora and infostealer dumps. Critical given the volume of third-party services faculty, staff, and students authenticate against.
Brand defense for application and donor cycles.
BRP detects fraudulent domains and (where shipped) fake apps impersonating the institution. Application-cycle and donor-cycle phishing campaigns spike predictably; Managed Takedown removes the impersonation infrastructure.
Workflows we see institutions run.
Group-wide subsidiary oversight.
Continuous monitoring of every department, research lab, and affiliated entity as a separate portfolio with rolled-up dashboards.
Read the use caseBrand-impersonation and phishing defense.
Detect lookalike institution-impersonation domains, fake portal sites, and prospective-student-targeting scams. Managed takedowns across registrars and platforms.
Read the use caseCompliance evidence on demand.
Continuous compliance mapping for FERPA-aligned controls and other applicable frameworks. Audit-ready evidence without quarterly re-cycles.
Read the use case“Open networks plus sensitive student and research data make our threat model unusual. Continuous monitoring across decentralized departments and labs gave us visibility we didn't have through central IT alone.”
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