Customer story · Education · Türkiye
A Research University Maps a Surface Nobody Owns Centrally.
A leading Türkiye-based research university with tens of thousands of students, where each department, research lab and student organization runs its own infrastructure. Tools that assume a central inventory had nothing to start from.
Central inventory
www.uni.example (scanned)
mail.uni.example (scanned)
Found by discovery
physics.uni.example (scanned)
department website
genome-lab.uni.example (scanned)
research lab project · project ended, still running
chess-club.uni.example (scanned)
student organization subdomain
Both lists scanned the same way
Every Department Runs Its Own Infrastructure.
A multi-campus university across engineering, the sciences, the humanities and graduate research, with thousands of academic and administrative staff and research collaborations around the world.
Its IT footprint grew over decades. Departments run their own websites, labs stand up infrastructure for individual projects, and student organizations register subdomains. The starting inventory was incomplete by design.
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Root domain
uni
.example IP address
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www.uni.example
443/tcp · TLS 1.3
198.51.100.110
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mail.uni.example
MX · SPF record
198.51.100.111
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Asset discovery
not in inventory · found from the root
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physics.uni.example, not in inventory
Department website
198.51.100.140
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genome-lab.uni.example, not in inventory
Research lab project · project ended, still running
203.0.113.142
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chess-club.uni.example, not in inventory
Student organization subdomain
192.0.2.88
The inventory is always behind the campus.
Departments add domains without coordination. Research projects leave systems running after the project ends, and student-organization subdomains pile up.
Adversaries, including nation-state groups after research in technology and the life sciences, go looking for exactly that gap.
Discovery as the Core Workflow.
The university runs the Deepinfo Platform so that discovery never stops and a small team does not have to chase it.
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01
Find
Asset Discovery keeps surfacing infrastructure across departments that nobody listed.
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Scan
Continuous Scanning covers the full discovered inventory, with each asset scanned the same way.
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03
Check staff email
Employee Email Breach Monitoring checks institutional addresses against breach data.
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Catch fake portals
Fraudulent Domain Monitoring flags impersonation around application and donor cycles, and confirmed domains go to Managed Takedown.
What Changed at University Scale.
Inventory Gap Narrowed
Discovery surfaced departmental and research-lab infrastructure that was missing from the inventory.
Monitoring Without the Headcount
Thousands of public-facing assets stay under continuous monitoring without continuous attention from a small security team.
Phishing Handled Cycle After Cycle
Application-cycle phishing domains are caught and routed to Managed Takedown.
Evidence on Record
Each finding keeps its evidence and its state history, which the security team draws on for institutional data-protection reporting.
Cross-Department Visibility
The central security team sees all departments in rolled-up dashboards.
See Your Institutional Surface in Full.
Book a walk-through of discovery across your departments and labs.