Overview
Protect students and faculty from cyber threats
Educational institutions are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, with 30% experiencing significant incidents each year. Limited IT resources and outdated systems heighten these risks, especially with the rise in remote learning. A comprehensive vulnerability management solution is crucial to safeguard sensitive data and maintain operational integrity.
Solution
Vulnerability Management for Academia
Simplified Vulnerability Management
IT teams often juggle multiple systems and software to manage vulnerabilities. vRx consolidates vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation into one intuitive platform, streamlining workflows and reducing the administrative burden.
Rapid Response to Critical Threats
With an average of 28% of educational institutions facing ransomware attacks, timely remediation is crucial. vRx automatically prioritizes vulnerabilities based on their risk to sensitive student and faculty data, enabling teams to act swiftly on the most pressing threats.
Support for Legacy Systems
Educational infrastructures often include outdated systems that are challenging to patch. vRx offers patchless protection, allowing teams to secure these legacy applications until they can be updated, ensuring operational continuity and minimizing disruptions to learning environments.
Features
Key features
Automated Remediation
vRx’s automated remediation streamlines vulnerability management, enabling educational institutions to efficiently address security gaps with limited IT staff.
Risk-Based Prioritization
vRx prioritizes vulnerabilities by considering exploitability, asset criticality, and business impact, ensuring that schools and universities tackle the most critical threats to student data and educational continuity.
Broad Coverage
With support for thousands of third-party applications, vRx offers educational institutions unparalleled visibility across diverse systems and software, reducing the need for multiple tools to maintain secure IT environments.
Key features
Consolidation & third-party patching is particularly valuable
"With vRx, we can patch in real time, especially for our end-user systems—reducing our remediation cycle from once every three months to within the week."
Michael Sutherland
IT Security Manager
Valuable resources saved
"Before vRx, we would spend countless hours manually finding and verifying patches. We saved so much time (and headache!)."
Anonymous IT Operations Lead
IT Operations Lead
Third-party software patching is the most valuable feature.
"We have automated third-party patching on specific software, improving efficiency by 80%. vRx has reduced our patching time, which has improved our operations. It is more robust than other solutions because it offers better third-party remediation."
Billy Turner
VP, Managed Technology & Services
Single source of truth, capable of handling any application in our fleet
"vRx gives a single pane of glass to see what patches needed to go out and what sort of vulnerabilities we have on our Windows machines. Our meantime to remediate vulnerabilities has gone down by about 60% to 70%."
Peter Fallowfield
IT Manager
60% faster remediation, many hours saved
"Typically, with our previous solution of ManageEngine, it took about three hours to patch Windows Server, and now, that is less than an hour. It means less downtime for the business each month when we do patches."
Anonymous Security Analyst
Security Analyst
Great patching capabilities, helpful dashboard, and excellent support
"vRx has saved us an incredible amount of time. We can just rely on the automated system and the schedules we've set. It's a huge time saver. It's saved us hundreds of hours."
Michael Cortez
Sr. Director of IT
My favorite feature is Patchless Protection
"With Vicarius' vRx, I've never seen a patch that failed or had to be rolled back. We're saving quite a bit of time. Our clients using vRx haven't had any issues, and they've easily established patching for all their endpoints. "
Jeremy Herman
Security Engineer
Unified vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation
"Vicarius streamlines vulnerability management between IT & Security by directly linking identified vulnerabilities to required patches, enhancing efficiency. The automation process has saved at least 30 percent of our manual tasks."
Wayne Ajimine
Information Security Professional
Patchless Protection is an incredible technology!
"vRx reduces the time customers spend on patching by reducing the overhead on the administrators, allowing them to do additional work. It saves time they would spend addressing the patching process, follow-ups, etc."
Antwune Gray
VP IT Security and Services
Merge Security & IT to Remediate Threats
“Vicarius’s vRx enabled Adama to centralize and consolidate work between IT and security teams, leading to a more efficient patching workflow."
Oshri Cohen
CISO
