Zscaler for Education
We support K-12 and higher education institutions in their mission to transform and modernize securely. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform enables a cost-effective IT architecture for the seamless and secure exchange of information, protecting against cyberthreats and enhancing the user experience.
A better way to stop ransomware
Ransomware remains a major threat, with an increase in attacks via encrypted mechanisms creating a blind spot in many school systems. Attacks are commonly crafted to each target, whether a specific school or even a specific administrator, exploiting gaps in traditional security solutions. Gain 100% visibility and a better approach to eliminating these common blind spots and stopping ransomware cold.
Secure Your Users
Zscaler securely connects users to applications from anywhere, improves user experience for a hybrid workforce and online classroom, boosts visibility, and better protects data to manage cyber risk.
Secure Your Workloads
Zscaler allows organizations to securely connect applications to the internet and other applications in the data center and across clouds with a zero trust architecture that eliminates attack surface, prevents lateral movement, and reduces risk of breaches.
Secure Your IoT/OT
Zscaler provides seamless, secure remote access for IoT/OT systems to protect government assets from cyberattacks, maximize uptime and productivity, and enable safe IoT/OT integration.
Modernize education securely
Eliminate cyberthreats
Apply zero trust principles as well as AI-powered cyberthreat and data loss prevention services with the world’s most comprehensive cyberthreat protection solution—eliminating the attack surface, preventing compromise, halting lateral movement, and stopping data loss.
Protect your data
Prevent data loss from users, SaaS apps, and public cloud infrastructure due to accidental exposure, theft, or ransomware—Zscaler provides cloud DLP, cloud access security broker (CASB), secure posture management, and browser isolation.
Improve user experience
Enable employees and third parties to access apps securely from anywhere—with the visibility and control to optimize their digital experience from device to ISP to cloud proxy to app and back without the need for firewalls, VPNs, backhauling, or siloed management tools.
Reduce cost and complexity
Eliminate legacy security and networking technology costs, including firewalls, VPNs, and the additional overhead that comes with keeping them up to date.
A cloud-first approach for education
Provide users a consistent and seamless experience when connecting to the internet or application from any device or location.
Use policy to securely connect users to the internet externally or to internally managed applications.
Reduce capex and scale up or down as needed with a per-user price devoid of data caps or bandwidth limits.
Deliver consistent protection, regardless of user location or device, simplifying risk management.
Optimize cloud-enabled infrastructure to foster agility and adoption.
Eliminate the need for security stacks through multitenant architecture, delivering efficiencies and threat information sharing at scale and improving cyber defense.
Achieving CMMC compliance with the Zero Trust Exchange
“Zscaler reduces the attack surface and user errors that typically present security issues.”
- Marshall Hollis, Systems Architect, University of South Carolina
Enabling a safe, CIPA-compliant learning environment
“We needed a holistic solution that would strengthen our visibility ... That’s exactly what we found in Zscaler.”
- Demond Waters, CISO, New York City Department of Education
Providing secure remote internet, SaaS, and private app access
“We've experienced a net gain in usability, reliability, and security."
- Dan Han CISO, Virginia Commonwealth University
Secure collaborative learning experiences for students and faculty with the power and scale of the Zero Trust Exchange
01 Cyberthreat Protection
Holistic approach to securing users, workloads, and devices
02 Data Protection
Full TLS/SSL inspection at scale for complete data protection across the SSE platform
03 Zero Trust Connectivity
Connect to apps, not networks, to prevent lateral movement with ZTNA
04 Digital Experience Management
Identify and resolve performance issues
Partner Ecosystem for Education
Through our key partnerships we are enabling the secure and seamless exchange of information for K-12 and Higher Education.
PARTNERS
Technology integrations and supported platforms simplify deployment and management
CONTRACT VEHICLES
Zscaler proudly serves K-12 and Higher Education institutions through a variety of contract vehicles:
CMMC 2.0 Compliance for Research Funding
Federal government R&D funding to higher education topped US$49 billion in 2022. Roughly $7.4 billion came from the Department of Defense, which requires universities to meet CMMC 2.0 compliance. Learn how the Zero Trust Exchange can help your school comply.
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Schedule a custom demo
Let our experts show you how Zscaler helps K-12 and higher education institutions ensure security and compliance with a cloud-first approach.
