Get simple, all-in-one protection to keep your users, data, network, and apps protected, affordably and efficiently. Keep your faculty, students, and administrators safe, across your school, branch, or remote locations – no matter where they are.

Intercept X

Sophos in Schools

An increasing number of schools are suffering at the hands of ransomware – a trend that Sophos has seen grow significantly over the last six months. Often these attacks can take days or even weeks to recover from. Now, at least one new organization per week is seeking protection from Sophos after an attack.

Protect yourself against these attacks with Sophos Intercept X.

Sophos Intercept X

All-in-one next-gen security against unknown threats

Sophos XG Firewall offers end-to-end protection for your classrooms and labs, blocking unknown threats with a comprehensive suite of advanced protection. Optimized for schools, it delivers all the protection, filtering and monitoring insights you need in a single, affordable appliance.

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High performance and availability for critical resources

Ensure a healthy balance between academic freedom for your users and security for your network and data. Assign user-based web access policies to ensure safe and productive internet usage. Shape bandwidth usage by users, web category, and applications to ensure high quality of service for important applications and prevent low-priority traffic from slowing down critical system resources.

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Secure personal and research data

Secure sensitive data like PII of students, alumni, and staff and critical research material by students, researchers, and staff from random and targeted attacks.

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Safe wireless environments

Offer safe and reliable wireless networks to students, staff and guests who connect using mobile devices including laptops, tablets and mobile phones, to foster a flexible learning environment. Our full range of wireless access points can be seamlessly managed through a Sophos firewall or in the cloud to offer complete threat protection for your user devices. Offer easy-to-manage guest access limited by data volume or time to restrict access to authorized users and tailor connectivity across all areas of the campus.

Secure Wi-Fi
SD WAN Connectivity

Connect and collaborate for less with SD-WAN

Sophos XG Firewalls integrate SD-WAN, enabling you to connect schools in your district for less by replacing expensive MPLS connections with lower-cost services such as cable, DSL and 3G/4G/LTE. Securely exchange personal student and faculty information and financial transactions, manage the growth of personal and school-issued devices, and keep pace with changing educational technologies and applications.

SD-WAN Use Cases

More cloud. Less server.

Protecting the UK Public Sector.

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Support your efforts to meet CIPA obligations and qualify for E-Rate funding.

Sophos helps you ensure online safety for your students and their data.

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Sophos Security for K-12 Education

Qualify for discounts and protect your staff, students, and their data.

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Case Studies

Pine Cove Consulting Safeguards K-12 from Ransomware with Sophos XG Next-Generation Firewall Appliance

Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont is a liberal arts college with roughly 2,000 students and 148 full-time faculty members.

Facing Critical Security Challenges, Swiss International Scientific School in Dubai (SISD) chooses to protect students and staff.

German International School Abu Dhabi benefits from comprehensive Sophos UTM protection that secures and manages student web access.

East Lycoming School District was able to upgrade its firewall and wireless security infrastructure based on Sophos solutions.

To better protect users, MassBay Community College needed to adopt a broader and more effective security strategy.

In preparation for launching its groundbreaking 1:1 project, Lafayette Catholic School System turned to Sophos UTM and Sophos Cloud.

Nelson and Colne College procure Sophos from Eduserv and revolutionise their IT security.

The University of San Carlos found its previous security system costly and arduous to maintain. After switching to Sophos, USC was not only protected against sophisticated threats but also Customer-at-a-Glance enabled its students and staff to stay productive.

Multinational educational group teams with Sophos to unify its security solutions

Sayfol International School Kuala Lumpur turned to Sophos to improve its existing endpoint security as part of their ongoing efforts to improve the overall IT system and infrastructure for its students, teachers, and staff, as well as the parents of students.

Zero downtime empowers students and staff at Kalasalingam University

The university required a secure firewall, which could also act as a control center for all of its 60 servers across its campuses in Bangalore, Lavasa, and Ghaziabad along with a robust system that could handle student and staff devices as part of its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy.

Sophos removes the need to use a subnet for the network. It also provides customized reports, user group authentication and weekly automated backup, which reduces our workload and saves time.

Saintgits adds more power to its cybersecurity posture with Sophos

International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) - The Shifting Point: Protecting 15,000 Users with Effective Endpoint Security.

Case Studies

Rowan Learning Case Study
Durham University

Durham University makes a simple and beneficial switch from Sophos Enterprise Console to cloud-based Sophos Central

Sophos protects The Academy, Selsey in temporary accommodation following a devastating fire.

Switching to Sophos Central ‘a simple transition’ for the National Association of Head Teachers

Following a number of ransomware ‘near misses’ Sherborne Girls School implements Sophos Intercept X.

Intercept X pays for itself in just one day at The Rowan Learning Trust

Sophos products are just so easy to use and navigate. In particular, the root cause analysis in Intercept X is excellent, and we would like to roll this out even further across our schools.

Walsall College choose Sophos to replace the Microsoft Threat Management Gateway and reduce helpdesk incidents by 99%

Trafford College deploys Sophos UTM and halves cost and time overheads

Kingsway Park High School upgraded its firewall to Sophos XG and not only saw an enormous cost savings – its granular reporting gave them far better insight into activity on their network, improving their security. Read about their story.

Reed's School became early adopters of Sophos Central Email. Transitioning to a cloud-based email protection solution showed immediate results, improving security and saving time for the school's IT staff. Learn how this change made a difference.

Newbold College overhauls IT security with firewall, server, and endpoint protection from Sophos

Synchronised and Intuitive Security Protects Students, Staff, and Network at Roundhay School

The University of Bedfordshire is a modern, innovative university with a heritage of top-quality education going back more than 100 years. With campuses in Luton, Bedford, Milton Keynes, and Aylesbury, it welcomes 20,000 students from over 120 countries.

St Bede Primary Academy advises other schools on how to implement Sophos Mobile

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