Day-zero scams targeting students
Tuition, scholarship, and accommodation scams cluster in the first weeks of term. International students are disproportionately targeted with visa-and-payment frauds.
For business
🏛️ Colleges & universities
Cyber safety, as part of student life.
Deploy Demysti5 alongside orientation. Students self-serve in their own accounts. IT sees aggregate posture, never individual records.
Where the gaps are
What costs your business, first.
These are the three patterns that drive most of the personal-cyber risk for colleges & universities. The plan addresses whichever one matters most for your population.
Campus credential reuse
Shared Wi-Fi, BYOD, and cross-service credential reuse remain among the most common compromise vectors observed in higher-ed incident reports.
IT controls stop at the edge
Endpoint, network, and identity controls protect the campus. They cannot reach a student’s phone, social account, or family group chat. Safe habits do.
The case
Why this is worth doing.
The points below are sourced where a public source exists. Where a number is an internal model or industry observation rather than a measured fact, we say so.
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Higher-ed phishing and scholarship-fraud reports peak during the first six weeks of each academic term.
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International students face a disproportionate share of impersonation and visa-related fraud; the first month on campus is the highest-risk window.
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Demysti5 does not ingest education records, financial-aid data, or student-information-system fields, which keeps the deployment outside FERPA-sensitive scope.
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Aggregate posture reporting helps IT, the CISO, and student-affairs see the same picture without identifying individuals.
Frameworks and obligations
Aligned with what you already have to do.
We do not claim certifications we do not hold. The list below is where Demysti5 either fits an existing obligation, supports a control, or stays out of regulated data flows by design.
FERPA (US)
Demysti5 does not ingest education records; deployment stays outside FERPA-protected data flows.
GLBA Safeguards Rule (US)
Relevant to financial-aid systems; we remain isolated from those systems by design.
GDPR (EU/UK)
Lawful-basis: consent for individual use; legitimate interests for aggregate reporting.
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