HIGHER EDUCATION
Cybersecurity for a Campus That’s Always On
Higher education networks are unique—open, dynamic, and constantly evolving. Every semester brings thousands of new devices, expanding research initiatives, clinical operations, IoT systems, and cloud services. ORDR brings clarity and control to this complexity with a platform built to understand your entire environment and an AI agent that helps your teams act on insight instantly This is cybersecurity designed for modern campuses: intelligent, efficient, and ready for anything.
Secure Explosive Growth of Assets in Higher Education
Lack of Asset Visibility
The volume and diversity of assets used in universities — from devices, cloud and SaaS applications—significantly expands the attack surface. However, visibility particularly with BYOD, IT and OT devices can be challenging. Ordr addresses this with complete asset visibility across the entire network.
Diverse Department Risks
Higher education verticals face unique risks requirements from different departments– healthcare systems, research and development, undergraduate or graduate programs. Ordr’s Asset Intelligence Platform addresses the entire asset visibility and management journey, including segmentation between departments.
Regulatory Compliance
Most higher education institutions need to adhere to specific regulatory compliance requirements, particularly if they receive government funding for sensitive department of defense or medical research. Ordr delivers asset inventory and insights into risks and threats, to simplify compliance and to enhance security.
IDENTIFY
Complete Insight Across Every Campus Network
Universities run some of the most diverse device ecosystems in the world. From student devices and smart building systems to research lab equipment, medical technologies, and athletic facilities—visibility gaps quickly become security gaps.
ORDR establishes a trusted, unified view of every connected asset the moment it joins the network. And because higher ed environments shift daily, this inventory stays continuously updated, enriched, and contextualized. With ORDR IQ, institutions can:
- Discover every device—student-owned, institution-issued, clinical, lab, IoT/OT, and cloud-managed
- Understand how each asset behaves within academic, operational, and research workflows
- Detect unknown or unauthorized devices before they create risk
- Support governance and audits with confident, verified asset intelligence
Visibility becomes a foundation for safer classrooms, smarter buildings, and more secure research.
ENFORCE
Zero Trust That Respects Campus Operations
Security in higher education has to be precise but unobtrusive. Interrupting research, classroom technology, or clinical systems isn’t an option.
ORDR enables safe, accurate enforcement based on real device behavior—ensuring segmentation supports operations rather than complicating them. Whether isolating a compromised IoT sensor, limiting lateral movement in research networks, or enforcing least-privilege for medical devices, ORDR makes Zero Trust both achievable and sustainable. With ORDR, campuses gain:
- Segmentation policies grounded in real-world communication patterns
- Safe, scalable enforcement using existing network infrastructure
- Isolation of high-risk devices without interrupting academic or research workflows
- Containment of lateral movement across complex, hybrid environments
Security strengthens, while the learning and research experience remains uninterrupted.
ORCHESTRATE
Your AI Agent for Campus-Wide Answers and Action
Higher ed teams shouldn’t have to search through interfaces or jump between tools to find what matters. ORDR IQ acts as your campus cybersecurity agent—turning questions into immediate answers and automating the work that traditionally slows teams down.
Ask IQ for any data, report, visualization, or workflow action, and it retrieves it from the platform instantly—no UI mastery required. ORDR IQ empowers higher education teams to:
Segmentation policies grounded in real-world communication patterns
- Build custom dashboards for residence halls, academics, research clusters, athletics, health clinics, or remote campuses
- Generate compliance-ready reports for HIPAA, FERPA, PCI, institutional audits, or research controls
- Create tickets directly from insights and push them into service systems
- Pull histories, communication maps, or exposure summaries in a single prompt
- Produce clean, presentation-ready outputs for leadership or governance panels
- Turn ORDR’s full platform intelligence into decision-ready insight
- Ask IQ for any data, report, visualization, or workflow action, and it retrieves it from the platform instantly—no UI mastery required. ORDR IQ empowers higher education teams to:
Segmentation policies grounded in real-world communication patterns
IQ frees time, reduces workload, and gives campus IT and security teams more room to focus on action—not data gathering.
WHY Choose ORDR for Higher Education
Easily Address Compliance Regulations
Higher education faces a perfect mix of challenges: open access expectations, legacy equipment, decentralized IT structures, seasonal surges in network load, research data protection, and regulatory pressure. ORDR brings simplicity and intelligence to this reality. Institutions choose ORDR because it:
- Provides a single source of truth for every connected device
- Gives understaffed teams the intelligence to operate like larger ones
- Automates the insight gathering required for audits, governance, and compliance
- Supports secure research environments without slowing innovation
- Integrates with existing infrastructure—no probes, agents, or replacements required
- Helps campuses stay ahead of threats with real-time visibility and AI-assisted workflows
ORDR gives colleges and universities what they need most: confidence in their connected campus.
