Universities, research institutions, and educational networks depend on reliable, high-performance, and secure IT infrastructure. With students, staff, and external researchers accessing digital services across sprawling networks, ensuring operational continuity and safeguarding sensitive data is critical.
Sycope delivers real-time insights, advanced threat detection, and effortless troubleshooting — helping IT teams stay ahead of performance issues and cyber threats, while supporting digital transformation in the education sector.
Why Education Networks Choose Sycope
1.Unified View of the Network
Sycope gives administrators full visibility into traffic flows, devices, users, and applications — across campuses, research labs, and data centers. Identify performance bottlenecks, unknown devices, or shadow IT instantly.
2. Advanced Threat Detection
Built on the MITRE ATT&CK® framework, Sycope detects anomalies and threats that bypass traditional firewalls or antivirus solutions. From DDoS attacks to suspicious lateral movement, Sycope keeps your academic data safe.
3. Simplified IT Operations
Even with limited IT resources, educational institutions can deploy Sycope in under an hour. Ready-to-use dashboards and alert rules help teams respond faster to incidents, outages, or unauthorized access.
4. Evidence-Based Decisions
From SLA monitoring to compliance reporting (GDPR, NIS2), Sycope offers intelligent reporting and drill-down capabilities for audits, risk assessments, and capacity planning.
Key Use Cases in Education Environments
1. Ensure Application Performance
- Monitor e-learning platforms, research portals, email, and internal systems
- Measure L4–L7 performance metrics like latency and retransmissions
- Identify root causes of delays with Deep Packet Visibility and L7 Probe
2. Secure BYOD and Research Traffic
- Detect infected devices or rogue connections from student or guest networks
- Monitor abnormal traffic behavior using AI and dynamic baselines
- Isolate compromised endpoints with integrated mitigation actions
3. Prevent Disruptions and Minimize Downtime
- Instantly pinpoint failures or misconfigurations
- Use drill-down tools and historical data for accurate troubleshooting
- Identify unauthorized application traffic or policy violations
4. Support Compliance & Accreditation
- Fulfill obligations under NIS2, GDPR, and academic IT security standards
- Generate audit-ready reports for internal or external stakeholders
- Map dependencies between services, servers, and user behavior
Sycope Features That Empower Education IT
| Feature | Benefit for Education IT |
| Asset Discovery | Automatically tracks new and unknown devices (BYOD included) |
| Dynamic Baseline & Alerts | Detect anomalies in usage and behavior in real-time |
| Multitenancy | Manage multiple departments, labs, or campuses from one interface |
| API & Integrations | Connect with SIEMs, ticketing systems, CMDBs, and more |
| Scenario-Based Dashboards | Out-of-the-box views for performance, security, SOC KPIs |
| Dedicated GUI for Forensics | Analyze flows, devices, users, apps – fast and intuitively |
| Security Rules Engine | Over 60+ prebuilt rules based on MITRE ATT&CK |
| Passive Monitoring | No need for intrusive scanning – full visibility via NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX |
Who Benefits from Sycope?
- University IT Departments: Manage growing user demands and complex infrastructure.
- Research Labs: Protect sensitive data and intellectual property.
- Academic Networks (NRENs): Ensure high performance and threat resilience across institutions.
- Digital Learning Platforms: Deliver seamless experience to students and faculty, on-campus or remote.
Tested & Trusted
“Deploying Sycope was refreshingly fast — the system was fully operational within a day. What stood out was how effortlessly it integrated with our existing infrastructure.” — Maciej Wilamowski, University of Warsaw
FAQ
Sycope provides real-time insights, advanced threat detection, and effortless troubleshooting to help IT teams stay ahead of performance issues and cyber threats.
Sycope monitors e-learning platforms and internal systems to measure performance metrics and identify root causes of delays using Deep Packet Visibility and L7 Probe.
Sycope detects infected devices, monitors abnormal traffic behavior using AI and dynamic baselines, and isolates compromised endpoints with integrated mitigation actions.
Sycope fulfills obligations under NIS2, GDPR, and academic IT security standards by generating audit-ready reports and mapping dependencies between services, servers, and user behavior.
University IT departments, research labs, academic networks, and digital learning platforms benefit from using Sycope to manage infrastructure, protect data, ensure high performance, and deliver seamless experiences.
