Log360 for educational institutions: Enhancing cybersecurity for schools and universities

Empower your institution to safeguard your educational infrastructure, streamline compliance, and protect student data and digital learning environments from evolving cyberthreats.

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Redefining education IT:
From data silos into actionable insights

edefining education IT: From data silos into actionable insights

Transform education cybersecurity with a
SIEM solution like Log360

  • Log360 had a whole section of compliance audits and GLBA wealth of knowledge and I really look forward to our audit that will be happening. Simply go to Log360, pull the reports, and be done with that in hours versus weeks as it was last time.

    Jeremy Taylor,
    CIO at Rogue Community College
  • The solution has made us much more secure because now we can see everything that's happening.

    Tony Garcia,
    IT system administrator, Monroe County School District
  • Helsingin aikuisopisto found Log360 to be a powerful, user-friendly solution with cost-effective cybersecurity capabilities. The staff was also pleased with the technical support team at ManageEngine, who helped with all their security-related queries. The solution has become an integral part of the organization's cybersecurity operation.

    Helsingin aikuisopisto
    Finland
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How Log360 strengthens cybersecurity in education

Enhancing student data protection in schools and universities

  • Log360 consolidates logs from student information systems, learning management systems (LMSs), email, and cloud apps to provide a single-pane-of-glass view of student data access.
  • It identifies unauthorized login attempts, suspicious file access, and abnormal data movement in real time.
  • It monitors and prevents unauthorized modifications to sensitive student records to ensure data integrity.
  • Log360 prevents data leaks of personally identifiable information, academic records, and sensitive health information through continuous security monitoring.
  • File upload and USB activity is continuously audited to detect and prevent data theft.
  • It helps institutions comply with privacy regulations like FERPA, the GDPR and HIPAA by generating automated audit reports.
Enhancing student data protection in schools and universities

Securing campus networks against external cyberattacks

  • Log360 supports log ingestion from over 750 sources, including cloud services, databases, servers, applications, endpoints, and network devices.
  • Its correlation engine links seemingly unrelated events to uncover complex attack patterns.
  • It integrates threat intelligence feeds to detect blocklisted IPs and domains trying to breach the network.
  • Log360 detects compromised credentials via dark web monitoring to prevent credential-based attacks.
  • It identifies and alerts on frequent attacks targeting schools and universities, such as phishing, ransomware, DDoS, SQL injection, brute-force attacks, and cloud security risks.
  • It leverages automated incident response actions like applying patches, isolating compromised accounts, and disabling users.
Securing campus networks against external cyberattacks

Preventing insider threats in academic environments

  • Log360 uses user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) to detect unusual access patterns by students, lecturers, professors, and research staff.
  • Machine learning algorithms identify deviations from the user's normal behavior and raise alerts for investigation.
  • It flags high-risk actions, including unauthorized downloads of research or intellectual property, by students and staff alike.
  • Log360 leverages user identity mapping, seasonality, and peer group analysis to improve risk scoring and threat detection.
  • Anomaly modeling and custom risk scoring help IT teams assess and prioritize threats and reduce false positives.
  • Log360 tracks anomalies across hosts and users to preempt insider attacks.
Preventing insider threats in academic environments

Protecting e-learning platforms and digital exams

  • Log360 tracks login anomalies such as credential sharing or multiple geographic logins.
  • It can help flag automated scripts or bots attempting multiple submissions or score manipulations.
  • It can integrate with IAM solutions to enforce strict exam access controls and preserve integrity.
  • It helps detect abnormal network behavior like excessive data exchange between student endpoints; unauthorized peer-to-peer communication channels; and access attempts to flagged, risky, or malicious domains.
  • Alerts security teams in real time to intervene before incidents escalate.
  • It provides forensic trails to investigate and mitigate cheating attempts in exams.
Protecting e-learning platforms and digital exams

Enhancing visibility into risky and unapproved applications

  • Analyzes network traffic to identify suspicious patterns in application use and access patterns of students and staff.
  • Discovers shadow, risky, and unapproved applications, and provides a reputation score for these apps.
  • Performs deep packet inspection during file uploads into the cloud in real time.
  • Correlates app usage data with security events for better context and control.
  • Helps CISOs enforce policies and reduce shadow IT and associated data exfiltration risks in schools and universities.
  • Provides insights into the top users accessing banned applications, all of the users' upload and download activities, and cloud application requests.
Enhancing visibility into risky and unapproved applications

Securing smart campuses and shared learning infrastructure

  • Log360 can collect and analyze logs from endpoint and network security tools, computer labs, and IoT devices across campuses.
  • It can help monitor LMS platforms, virtual labs, and shared cloud-based resources used by students and faculty.
  • Log360 detects unauthorized access or privilege escalation attempts on shared devices.
  • It identifies phishing, malware, and compromised accounts in email and collaboration tools.
  • It automates security response actions to isolate risky devices and minimize disruptions in learning.
  • Custom correlation rules allow schools to tailor the rule detection logic to their unique security needs.
Securing smart campuses and shared learning infrastructure

Supporting cybersecurity awareness and compliance in education

  • Provides prebuilt, audit-ready compliance reports for FERPA, the GDPR, and HIPAA.
  • Ensures sensitive student and research data are monitored for unauthorized access.
  • Generates real-time alerts for compliance violations such as unauthorized access or failed login attempts.
  • Retains logs securely for forensic investigations, helping institutions trace incidents and demonstrate due diligence.
  • Helps enforce security policies and maintains a secure digital ecosystem for students, faculty, and researchers by integrating threat intelligence and access controls.
  • Provides visual dashboards and reports that help IT teams educate stakeholders on security posture.
Supporting cybersecurity awareness and compliance in education
 

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Log360 caters to enterprise security needs by offering native and third-party integrations and extensions. These integrations help enterprises reduce operational complexity and strengthen compliance through automated log management across multiple platforms.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Log360 is a unified SIEM solution with integrated DLP, CASB, UEBA, and SOAR capabilities that helps schools, colleges, and universities secure their digital environments. It centralizes log management, provides visibility across on-premises and cloud infrastructures, detects and responds to cybersecurity threats in real time, and offers audit-ready reports for educational institutions.

Log360 continuously audits access to sensitive data, detects unauthorized modifications, and generates real-time alerts for suspicious activity. It uses behavior analytics to identify login anomalies and privilege misuse, and ensures that student records, health and payment records, intellectual property, and research data are securely monitored and protected against data exfiltration attempts.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a U.S. law that protects the privacy of student education records. It grants parents—and later students when they turn 18 or attend college—the right to access records, request corrections, and control who can see their personal information. FERPA applies to all schools and universities that receive funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

FERPA requires schools and universities to safeguard student education records from unauthorized access or disclosure. For CISOs, this means implementing strong access controls, centralized monitoring, and incident response mechanisms to protect personally identifiable information. Compliance is not only a legal requirement but also a way to build trust with students and parents while reducing the risk of costly data breaches.

Absolutely. Log360 automates log retention, provides audit-ready reports, and monitors activity across systems to ensure compliance with FERPA, the GDPR, HIPAA, and other data protection mandates.

Log360 can detect threats such as phishing, malware, ransomware, DDoS, brute-force login attempts, insider threats, credential-based attacks, and unauthorized access to smart devices or cloud platforms. Its correlation engine links events across systems to uncover complex attack patterns common in academic networks.

Log360 offers real-time alerting, automated workflows, and forensic log analysis to help IT teams respond quickly to security incidents. Its dashboards and reports streamline investigation and resolution, minimizing disruption to academic operations.

Yes. While Log360 already has integrated DLP, CASB, and UEBA capabilities, and also integrates with ManageEngine's EDR solution, Endpoint Central, it can also integrate with IAM and other security solutions from third parties. This ensures a unified and layered security posture across hybrid learning environments.