Higher
Education
Protect student/faculty data, research IP, and decentralized networks — while maintaining access and agility.
Higher Education Cybersecurity
by the Numbers
Real outcomes from real campus engagements, tracked and validated through independent assessment and continuous monitoring.
What the 2026
Breach Data Shows
Verizon analyzed more than 22,000 confirmed breaches for the 2026 DBIR. Education remains a ransomware target, and the front door is almost always a web application.
Confirmed breaches in the education sector, from 1,302 total security incidents.
Of malware-related breaches in education involved ransomware.
Web applications were the infection vector in 71% of cases.
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, “Industries” section, NAICS 61 (Education). Read the full report at Verizon
Every Framework.
Every Campus Need.
Deep expertise across every major higher education compliance and risk framework, so nothing slips past us.
Built for Campus
Environments
Click any service to see what's included. Each program is built around your institution's specific compliance, infrastructure, and governance requirements.
Risk assessments across decentralized campus IT environments. We evaluate academic, administrative, research, and student systems to find gaps and prioritize remediation aligned with FERPA, GLBA, and NIST requirements.
Modern endpoint protection and network hardening across 1,000+ faculty and staff devices. We deploy advanced EDR, segment campus networks, and harden access controls to reduce attack surface while preserving academic freedom and access.
Role-based cybersecurity awareness training designed for diverse campus audiences: faculty, administrative staff, researchers, and student workers. We reduce phishing susceptibility by 85% and build a campus-wide security culture.
Tailored incident response planning and breach management for higher education. We build IR playbooks, conduct tabletop exercises, and prepare your institution to respond rapidly to ransomware, data breaches, and targeted attacks on research data.
Evaluate and manage risk across your vendor ecosystem, from LMS platforms to cloud services. We assess third-party security, build continuity plans, and ensure your institution can maintain operations through any disruption.
University Cybersecurity
Transformation
A mid-sized university faced growing phishing attacks, no centralized governance model, and disparate systems across academic, administrative, and research departments. Limited endpoint visibility and FERPA/GLBA compliance risks compounded the challenge.
- Growing phishing attacks targeting faculty and staff
- No centralized cybersecurity governance model
- Disparate systems across academic, admin, and research
- Limited endpoint visibility and monitoring
- FERPA and GLBA compliance risks
RB Advisory ran a multi-phase approach to close compliance gaps, strengthen endpoint protection, build cybersecurity governance, and establish a campus-wide security culture aligned to FERPA and GLBA requirements.
- Full-scale cybersecurity and privacy risk assessment
- Modern endpoint protection across 1,000+ faculty/staff
- Role-based cybersecurity awareness training program
- Governance and policy improvements aligned to FERPA/GLBA
- Centralized security monitoring and incident response planning
- Cross-department collaboration framework
- 85% reduction in phishing incidents campus-wide
- 40% improvement in detection and response times
- Increased FERPA and GLBA alignment across all departments
- Strengthened audit readiness and governance posture
- Improved cross-department collaboration on security initiatives
RB Advisory helped us turn our cybersecurity challenges into strengths. Their team understood the complexities of higher education: distributed systems, diverse user groups, and evolving regulatory expectations — and delivered clear, practical solutions that made a measurable difference.
Strengthen Campus
Cyber Resilience
Free 30-minute strategy session with a higher education cybersecurity expert. We'll assess your campus security posture and give you a clear path to compliance.
Strengthen Campus Cyber Resilience