A leading research university monitoring exposure across decentralized departments.
A leading Türkiye-based research university with thousands of academic and administrative staff plus tens of thousands of students operates a decentralized IT footprint where each department, research lab, and student organization manages its own infrastructure. Traditional security tooling assumes a central inventory; the university security team needed something built for the actual surface shape.
Türkiye-based research university with ~30,000 students across multiple campuses.
A leading Türkiye-based research university with multi-campus operations, ~30,000 students, and several thousand academic and administrative staff. Operates across engineering, sciences, humanities, and graduate research disciplines. Hosts research collaborations with global partners.
External IT footprint grew organically across decades. Each academic department typically operates its own websites and systems. Research labs spin up infrastructure for individual projects. Student organizations register subdomains. The starting inventory was incomplete by design; the security program needed continuous discovery to close the gap.
Continuous discovery as the core workflow.
Decentralized infrastructure means the inventory is always behind reality. Continuous discovery + monitoring across thousands of public-facing assets without continuous staff attention.
The challenge.
Decentralized infrastructure means the security team's inventory is always behind reality. Departments add domains without coordination. Research projects spin up systems that outlive the project. Student-organization subdomains accumulate. Adversaries (including nation-state groups targeting research IP in technology and life-sciences departments) exploit the inventory gap.
The workflow change.
Deepinfo's EASM Smart Asset Discovery surfaces previously-unknown infrastructure across departments continuously. Continuous Scanning runs across the full discovered inventory at the same depth on every asset. CTI Employee Email Breach Monitoring covers institutional email addresses against breach corpora. BRP detects fraudulent-portal impersonation around application and donor cycles.
The outcome.
Inventory gap narrowed substantially as Discovery surfaced shadow infrastructure. Continuous monitoring runs across thousands of public-facing assets without requiring continuous staff attention. Application-cycle phishing campaigns caught and routed to Managed Takedown.
Concrete outcomes at university scale.
- Asset inventory expanded: Discovery surfaced departmental and research-lab infrastructure.
- Continuous monitoring runs at university scale: without operational burden on a small security team.
- Phishing-defense workflow runs continuously: around application and donor cycles.
- Compliance evidence: for institutional data protection mapped to applicable frameworks.
- Cross-department visibility: with rolled-up dashboards for the central security team.
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