With cybersecurity solutions from Microsoft, universities can detect suspicious activity and remediate cyber threats that affect student and university data. End-to-end, integrated security solutions help modern higher education institutions preserve the confidentiality of information online, whether student data, intellectual property, or other sensitive information, and further reduce risk through addressing both physical security and cyber security strategies with one cloud platform. Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure’s IoT platform provide built-in Microsoft Threat Protection and security technologies, enabling institutions to make the most of their investments, while eliminating the need for multiple point solutions. Integrated services translate to smarter investments and reduced IT burden.

Microsoft’s partner solutions help ensure physical safety and peace of mind on campus through detecting and preventing suspicious activity, while instantly communicating incidents across campus. Solutions leverage Microsoft Azure’s next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) and Azure Digital Twins to virtually model the relationships and interactions among people, places, and devices to see what’s going on in real time and ensure security across end points. Microsoft Azure Sphere IoT Security, a new solution for creating highly-secure, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) devices, can further enhance the security resilience of the IoT devices themselves. Choose from partner solutions to enable physical access control, campus monitoring, alerting, emergency response and more.

Microsoft’s Threat protection is supported by one of the largest threat intelligence networks through Microsoft’s Intelligent Security Graph, the foundation for all of Microsoft’s security solutions. The Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph powers Microsoft Threat Protection by using industry-leading artificial intelligence and machine learning to correlate vast threat intelligence and security signals to identify and mitigate cyber threats. It obtains threat signals from each of Microsoft’s services, third party threat feeds, and global footprint and blends threat signals with powerful machine learning, threat analysis from our 3500+ in-house security specialists7, and support from over $1 billion in annual cybersecurity investments8. Additionally, Microsoft uses cloud-powered real-time attack forensics to increase protection from sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks. Automated Incident Response tools can automatically hunt for compromised accounts instead of relying on compromised users to alert you or attackers to make a mistake.