Cybersecurity Early Warning for EDUCAUSE members

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Higher education organizations want to improve their cybersecurity but are often overwhelmed by complexity and price. It doesn't have to be that way. Arctic EWS makes it easy and affordable.

Continuous external monitoring is particularly well suited for higher education because of the nature of academic networks. Many universities subscribe to early warning to catch security issues before they become a problem or lead to a breach.

EDUCAUSE members can get Arctic EWS at a discounted price. Getting started is easy: fill out the form below, and we will contact you.

Practical protection for minimal cost

Our early warning service, Arctic EWS, is a proven external cybersecurity monitoring solution that enables you to pinpoint your vulnerabilities, discover public exposure of sensitive assets, and uncover compromised systems. Our notification-based service barely adds any work for security and IT teams and is timely, accurate, and efficient.

Arctic EWS grants you full access to a unique dataset that has been difficult for US educational institutions to access. With this data at your fingertips, you can significantly reduce the time-to-discovery for cybersecurity issues affecting your organization.

Easy to implement

Arctic EWS is external to your organization, making it easy to use and a breeze to run through procurement. There is no need for complicated analysis of data exposure or what information you are comfortable sharing with an external party. The only thing Arctic Security needs to know about you is information on your external-facing assets, which is public by definition.

Monthly reporting

Arctic EWS subscribers get two monthly reports that reveal what is getting past their current security measures. The overview report is perfect for communicating with the management, who must understand how the security situation develops from one month to the next. It also helps you to track how your externally visible assets change over time. 

The performance and progression report reviews your issues one by one and explains why they are a problem, why they are relevant to you, and how to validate the findings.

With Arctic EWS, you can learn what others already know about you – and preact now.

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Arctic EWS highlighted faults in some of the operational practices that we had and showed on a clear daily basis that it was happening consistently, not as a onesie-twosie type of exception or device misconfiguration. By calling it out to us, Arctic EWS allowed us to identify where the problem actually was in order to address it directly at its source.

- Mark Herron, CISO

Jason Pursian

“Arctic EWS has helped us maintain additional visibility of potential vulnerabilities on publicly accessible endpoints and select domains, and by remediating those vulnerabilities and closing off unnecessary access, has reduced our potential attack surface.

While they vary in severity, over the past year, all notifications from Arctic EWS have been actionable and legitimate findings, with zero false positives.”

- Jason Pursian, Information Security Officer at UW-Madison, CALS

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You’ve helped us clearly identify unknown services running on our network that may be used for points of entry because of bad configurations, including unpatched systems, end of life systems, systems with default credentials or improper access controls.

- Harry H, CISO, Large R1 University, USA

Arctic Security supports Higher Education

Even though Arctic EWS is already one of the most cost-effective organization-wide security measures available, we at Arctic Security are passionate supporters of higher education. That is why we wanted to enable EDUCAUSE  members to gain access to essential cybersecurity at a genuinely affordable price.
 
We are currently offering tiered discounted pricing for EDUCAUSE members so that institutions of all sizes can take advantage of the benefits. Our service has been fully tested and evaluated by EDUCAUSE members, and we welcome you to read those studies.

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How much does Arctic EWS cost for you?

When contacting us, use the form below to let us know that you are an EDUCAUSE member. This will provide you with EDUCAUSE pricing options shown below.
 
We use the IPEDS student population to determine the appropriate pricing for EDUCAUSE members. The number of FTE students is calculated based on fall student headcounts, as reported by the institution on the IPEDS Enrollment. 

Educause member pricing

Small

For universities and colleges with up to 3,000 enrolled students

Billed annually at USD 5040

$420/month

Medium

For universities and colleges with up to 10,000 enrolled students

Billed annually at USD 7680

$640/month

Large

For universities and colleges with more than 10,000 enrolled students

Billed annually at USD 13,560

$1130/month

I'm interested in the Early Warning Service

After you submit the form, we will schedule a meeting to discuss your baseline report for the previous six months so you can see the value Arctic EWS offers. Sharing and reviewing the report with you does not obligate you to sign up for an Arctic EWS subscription.