Know Your Risks
Own Your Plan

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Most cybersecurity assessments leave you with a long list of findings and no clear path to act on them. Moran takes a different approach.

Which Risks to Tackle First?

Higher ed institutions are high-value targets for ransomware and data breaches, and the consequences of getting it wrong fall directly on IT leadership. Most CIOs and CISOs know security requires attention and are committed to reducing risks. The question is where to start when everything feels exposed and there are insufficient hands to address every gap.

Moran’s educational and collaborative approach helps your team prioritize your risks and build realistic plans for remediation and program maturity. We deliver recommendations that raise board awareness and long-term support.

How We Make It Happen

Moran’s security assessments are different from typical audits. They’re collaborative engagements designed to build shared understanding across your team while surfacing what’s really going on in your security environment.

How We Engage

  • Educate & Align

    Using frameworks like NIST CSF, we build a common language around security and set realistic expectations across your leadership and IT team.

  • Surface Gaps

    Interactive workshops give your team shared clarity on root causes.

  • Build Your Roadmap

    Workshop findings become a phased, prioritized roadmap tailored to your institution’s culture and budget.

What We Deliver

  • A clear picture of your institution’s specific risk environment and what matters most right now.

  • Shared understanding across your team, not just a list of findings handed down from outside.

  • A phased, prioritized roadmap your leadership helped build, can explain to the board, and can act on to reduce impact of risks.

  • The Moran Cybersecurity team was able to provide invaluable insights in our governance and security practices so that we could refine our processes, mitigate risk, and become GLBA compliant. They did a fantastic job understanding our business needs and objectives so that the engagement provided the greatest alignment with our business needs. Moran will continue to be a key partner in our security journey for many years to come!

    Private Health Sciences College Vice President of Information Technology
  • Moran helped us simplify GLBA compliance by providing a clear, actionable roadmap tailored to our institution. Their ability to combine technical expertise with a strong understanding of higher education made the process both approachable and achievable.

    Private Liberal Arts College Director of Information Technology
  • The collaborative approach to Moran’s information security assessment was a highly valuable engagement. They went beyond just delivering a report, working with our team to create a plan that leverages our internal expertise. Moran transformed a standard assessment into a scalable plan for actionable progress.

    Private Liberal Arts College Vice President for Information Technology & CIO
  • Cybersecurity strategy evolves rapidly with emerging threats and as a small university with no dedicated cybersecurity staff, most of our efforts were still focused solely on protection and prevention. The Moran Cybersecurity team used the NIST CSF 2.0 as a tool to teach us what’s expected of a mature cybersecurity program and give us a roadmap to build a comprehensive program — all while demonstrating a nuanced understanding of the unique challenges small universities face.

    Private Liberal Arts University Chief Information Officer
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