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Higher Education

Protect Your Institution. And Its Legacy.

Open access for students, alumni, faculty, and staff means every campus connection carries risk. The SentinelOne Singularity™ Platform safeguards your people and valuable IP against attacks with autonomous, AI-native defense.

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Today's Reality

Our Approach

Fragmented Tools Won't Protect Your Institution. One Platform Will.

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WAYFINDER MDR

Your Security Team, Multiplied.

Offload threat investigation and response to SentinelOne's global team of cyber experts. 24/7 coverage so threats are contained before they disrupt your institution.

  • Monitor, investigate, and remediate threats around the clock

  • Extend your team's reach without extending your headcount

  • Accelerate containment with expert-led escalation and response

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PROMPT SECURITY

Secure the AI Your Campus Depends On

Protect the AI powering research and learning without slowing down students, faculty, and staff. Real-time visibility and control across 15,000+ tools.

  • Keep student records and research IP out of unauthorized AI models

  • Enforce guardrails from the classroom to the research lab

  • Stay ahead of FERPA exposure as AI adoption accelerates

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SINGULARITY™ AI SIEM

Turn Data into Your Best Defense

Gain visibility into all your campus data without the alert fatigue. AI-powered automation eliminates manual workflows so your team responds faster.

  • Ingest and correlate signals across endpoint, identity, cloud, and third-party sources

  • Replace manual triage with AI-driven detection and prioritization

  • Free up analyst time for strategic defense, not data wrangling

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PURPLE AI

Make Any Analyst an Expert

The AI security analyst built into the Singularity Platform. Natural language investigation and AI-enriched summaries give every team member senior-level capability.

  • Hunt across campus telemetry in natural language, no query syntax required

  • Triage alerts and surface what matters in seconds

  • Generate incident summaries and guided next steps on demand

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Trust and Compliance

Stay Secure and Compliant Without Compromise

Regulatory complexity is a given. Compliance gaps don't have to be. One platform, continuous readiness.
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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Safeguard student education records with AI-driven endpoint protection, real-time threat detection, and continuous visibility across campus systems.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)

Protect sensitive financial aid data wherever it's stored and accessed. Meet the Safeguards Rule with autonomous detection and response across university endpoints.

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)

Accelerate CMMC compliance with autonomous detection and response that protects Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in alignment with NIST SP 800-171.

Why SentinelOne?

The Security Advantage. Built in, Not Bolted On.

Detect and respond faster across all endpoints, workloads, and devices with one autonomous platform built for machine-speed defense.
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Automate Your Defense

Outpace attackers using AI-driven, autonomous detection and response to stop threats in real time. Without human intervention.

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Uplevel Your SOC

Force multiply understaffed teams with agentic AI to surface and investigate threats before they become campus-impacting events.

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Remove Data Silos

Unify and correlate data across disparate security tools, networks, and devices with one open, AI-powered platform.

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See Everything

Monitor and gain visibility of new devices as they hop on and off your campus network. Enforce device policies and understand their associated risks.

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Success Stories

Trusted Where It Matters Most

Leading institutions trust SentinelOne to protect research, students, and the mission behind both.
See the ResultsIndustry Recognition

"It has saved our bacon more than once. It even detects zero-day events through their behavior."

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Higher Education
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“We feel peace of mind knowing we have SentinelOne behind us. It’s transformed our day-to-day operations by streamlining endpoint protection, improving efficiency, and reducing the operational burden of our IT and security teams.”

Francisco Peña

Information Security Analyst at South Texas College
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Un Leader. Sei anni consecutivi.

Per il sesto anno consecutivo, SentinelOne è stata nominata Leader nel Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ 2026 per le piattaforme di protezione degli endpoint.

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Named a Leader in Growth and Innovation

SentinelOne was named a Top-Performing Vendor in the 2025 Frost Radar™ for Endpoint Security, recognized for autonomous, scalable protection, detection, and response.

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Customers' Choice for EPP

Named a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Endpoint Protection Platforms, with high end-user recommendation rates.

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Resources

Go Deeper on Higher Education Security

Resource Center
  • Higher Education Has a Shadow AI Crisis and an AI Governance Gap
    Datasheet

    Higher Education Has a Shadow AI Crisis and an AI Governance Gap

  • Secure Your Institution— and Its Legacy
    Solution Brief

    Secure Your Institution— and Its Legacy

  • Master AI Risk Across Your Campus
    Datasheet

    Master AI Risk Across Your Campus

  • The Business Value of SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
    Whitepaper

    The Business Value of SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint

  • South Texas College Case Study: AI-Powered Security in Higher Education
    Case Study

    South Texas College Case Study: AI-Powered Security in Higher Education

  • IDC Business Value of SentinelOne's Purple AI
    Report

    IDC Business Value of SentinelOne's Purple AI

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Frequently Asked Questions

Higher education cybersecurity refers to the tools, practices, and platforms institutions use to protect student data, research intellectual property, and campus infrastructure from cyber threats. Universities face a distinct risk profile: open access policies, decentralized networks, and research programs targeted by nation-state actors require a different security model than traditional enterprises. 

SentinelOne addresses this with autonomous AI-powered defense, protecting endpoints, identity infrastructure, and cloud workloads from one unified platform.

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Research intellectual property is among the most targeted assets in higher education, and among the hardest to recover once compromised. 

SentinelOne defends research data across the three surfaces most exploited in academic espionage: endpoints, identity infrastructure, and cloud workloads. Behavioral AI detects credential theft, lateral movement, and data exfiltration in real time. Purple AI accelerates investigation so lean security teams can respond at the speed the threat demands, before data leaves the institution.

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Understaffed campus security teams can defend at enterprise scale using agentic AI that investigates, prioritizes, and responds without requiring deep expertise on every alert. 

SentinelOne's Purple AI automates threat investigation, surfaces what matters first, and walks analysts through response step by step. AI SIEM eliminates manual triage workflows and alert fatigue. The result: a lean team operating with the capacity and confidence of one three times its size.

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FERPA and GLBA compliance requires continuous monitoring, rapid incident response, and audit-ready evidence. These capabilities are built into the Singularity Platform by default. 

SentinelOne maintains 365 days of telemetry across campus endpoints and identities, giving compliance teams the forensic record they need without building separate logging infrastructure. Automated detection reduces dwell time, limiting exposure of student financial and educational records. Institutions move from reactive compliance to continuous, auditable readiness.

Campus networks are uniquely exposed: open access policies, BYOD, rotating student populations, and distributed research facilities create a constantly shifting attack surface. 

SentinelOne secures every device as it connects, whether on campus or remote. The Singularity Platform monitors new devices in real time, enforces security policies automatically, and correlates signals across the full environment so threats don't hide in the gaps between locations.

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