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Email Security & Training
for Education

Block ransomware during finals, BEC during enrollment, and the attacks timed to hit when you're most vulnerable.

Deploy AI-powered email security in 3 clicks and protect everyone on M365 and GWS while your lean team focuses on what matters.

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82% of Schools Get Attacked

Your security team (all three of you, if you're lucky) can't manually protect thousands of users from education-targeted attacks.

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Impossible Math

10,000 mailboxes. 3 IT staff. 45% of attacks target humans, not technology. Manual email security isn't just difficult, it's mathematically impossible.

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Timed Attacks

Ransomware during finals. BEC during enrollment. Vendor attacks during lunch programs. They know exactly when you can't recover. 

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Community Impact

When email fails: students lose meals, parents miss work, research vanishes. Your whole community suffers. 

The Education Security Crisis by the Numbers
82%
of Schools Hit
by Cyber Attacks

(MS-ISAC 2025)
9,300+
Confirmed Education
Breaches in 18 Months

(MS-ISAC 2025)
$3.5M
Average Cost of Education
Data Breach

(IBM 2024 DBR)
86%
of Schools Defend With
Fewer Than 5 IT Staff

(MS-ISAC 2025)
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Meet Themis. Your Virtual SOC.

Stop Manual Remediation.
Start Strategic Work.

Themis, your virtual SOC agent autonomously hunts, clusters, and remediates threats across every inbox in seconds. While your team focuses on strategic work, Themis handles the 99% of security tasks that shouldn't need human intervention.

  • Autonomous remediation: Identifies and removes email attacks
  • Noise filtering: Learns from users, eliminates false positives
  • Alerts when needed: Only escalates true judgment calls

IRONSCALES is catching virtually every phishing attempt and other miscellaneous emails that shouldn't be coming through. It's performing as advertised, the process works perfectly.

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Jim Wolff

Director of Technology at Paramount School District

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INTEGRATED TRAINING THAT WORKS

Train Where Threats Land.
The Inbox.

Students click everything. Faculty overshare. Staff mix personal and work email. We transform this chaos into coordinated defense with integrated phishing simulations and security awareness training that actually work, right in the inbox where threats land.

  • Adaptive simulations: Edu-specific campaigns match risk profiles
  • Integrated SAT: 100+ Wizer videos auto-assigned on failures
  • Real-time coaching: Dynamic banners educate in the moment

"We’re building our phishing simulation campaigns in IRONSCALES and the simulations are very realistic”"

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Brad Johnstone

Head of ICT Services at Ayrshire College

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EDUCATION-SPECIFIC THREATS

We Know When and How Schools Get Attacked.

Traditional email security misses education's unique threats. Our AI trains on actual attacks that target K-12 and higher education environments. We catch vendor spoofs, ransomware timed for finals, and grant scams that SEGs never see coming.

  • Vendor Compromise: Food service, transport, textbook backdoors
  • Academic Timing: Finals ransomware, enrollment BEC
  • Credential Harvesting: .EDU accounts worth $5-10 each
  • Research Theft: Grant scams, IP stealing

💡Ironscales Community Intelligence

17,000+ organizations strong. When education-specific attacks hit anywhere, every school in our network is protected immediately.

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COMPLIANCE MADE AUTOMATIC

Board-Ready Metrics.
Audit-Ready Reports.

Your boards want metrics. Auditors need reports. Insurance requires documentation. Get it all automatically, without manual effort.

  • FERPA & COPPA: Training content and reporting that supports compliance requirements
  • Board metrics: Dashboards that translate threats into org impact
  • Automated reporting: Cyber insurance and audit doc ready
  • ROI evidence: Time saved, threats stopped, costs avoided

Immediate ROI

Save $15-30K annually by eliminating separate SAT contracts. Plus the time savings from automation pays for itself in months.

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Trusted to Protect Education

“From our experience, you want an integrated email solution, not a gateway product. The return on investment from this will become clear fairly quickly."
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Frequently Asked Questions

We already have Microsoft/Google security. Why do we need this?

Native Microsoft/Google security stops spam and known malware but misses sophisticated education attacks like vendor spoofs, enrollment BEC, and grant fraud because they look legitimate. We use behavioral AI (NLP/NLU) to detect subtle threat patterns that rule-based systems can't catch. Plus, we protect both M365 and Google Workspace from one dashboard for mixed environments.

How does this help with compliance?

Training content and reporting aligned with FERPA, COPPA, and GLBA. Automated documentation for cyber insurance. Board-ready dashboards that translate threats into business impact. Everything generates automatically, no manual reports needed. 

What's the actual deployment process?

Three clicks to connect via API. Five minutes for initial scan. Immediate protection. No MX changes, no mail flow disruption, no consultants. Your email keeps flowing while threats start getting caught. Works with M365, Google Workspace, or both. 

Can small districts afford this?

You can't afford not to have it. IRONSCALES costs less than one IT hire and prevents breaches averaging $3.5M. The time savings alone justify the investment - 377 hours saved pays for a full year. Plus, we help you qualify for federal K-12 cybersecurity grants. 

How is this different from traditional SEGs?

SEGs need MX changes that disrupt mail for weeks. They require constant tuning you don't have time for. And they miss a lot of phishing and BEC attacks (67.5 per 100 mailboxes a month). We deploy instantly, run autonomously, and catch the vendor scams and enrollment fraud SEGs never see.

What about our mixed environment?

Perfect for education. Many districts run M365 for staff and GWS for students, or different platforms across campuses. We protect both seamlessly from one dashboard. No choosing sides, no gaps in protection.

Can phishing simulations and security awareness training help us meet compliance or insurance requirements?

Yes. Our phishing simulations and security awareness training are tailored to meet regulatory and cyber insurance requirements, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR. Training is adaptive as well as personalized by role, behavior, and risk profile which ensures clinical, IT, and admin staff receive relevant, effective education that’s both audit-ready and aligned with compliance frameworks.

Protect Learning. Start With a Free 90-Day Scanback.

Your lean team protects thousands of users from attacks designed to hit schools. See what you're missing and how automation can give you back hundreds of hours every semester.

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