Higher Education Cybersecurity Advisory
We help colleges and universities cut through the busywork and focus on the few things that genuinely strengthen cyber resilience, grounded in structured assessments, peer benchmarking, and decades of sector experience.
Practice Footprint
130+
Institutions served since 2021
Assessment engagements completed
Founder-led delivery on every engagement. Get expert assistance at a price point closer to a software subscription than a consulting retainer.
Research Footprint
200+
Cybersecurity capability assessments
Cyber Heat Map methodology
400+
IT policy libraries analyzed
Against the CampusCISO IT Policy Framework
5+ yrs
Of structured assessment data
Growing with every engagement
The Three Lenses of Cyber Resilience
Most institutions can answer one of these questions with confidence, and many can answer two. We help you answer all three, then connect the evidence across them. Each lens maps to a product family that answers its question, and the three connect as one portfolio. Capabilities, governance, and preparedness aren’t separate compliance domains, they’re interdependent investments.
LENS 01
Cyber Readiness
Examines cybersecurity tools, support processes, and capability gaps across your technical operations.
Informed by 200+ institutional assessments
Cyber Heat Map® family
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LENS 02
Governance Maturity
Examines policy inventories, document completeness, and alignment with peer institutions.
Informed by 400+ IT policy libraries analyzed
IT Policy family
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LENS 03
Response Preparedness
Examines exercise design, team performance, communication effectiveness, and the gap between documented procedures and actual behavior.
Evaluated on a structured rubric
TTX Coaching family
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Audit findings produce remediation lists. Vendor pitches produce shopping lists. CampusCISO produces a scored answer to each question, and connects the findings across all three.
How You Engage
You can engage at whatever layer fits your budget and needs, then move to higher or lower tiers over time. The Diagnostic engagements are designed as high-value, low-risk entry points to understand your current program capabilities.
Layer 1
Community Resources
Free
Free frameworks and self-assessments to apply our methods on your own.
Layer 2
Books & Courses
$39
In-depth material that teaches the methodology beyond just the frameworks.
Layer 3
Diagnostic Engagement
$399
Work with us to apply the methodology to get a scored assessment and prioritized gap list. Fixed scope and price.
Layer 4
Planning Engagement
$4,999
Get board-ready strategic recommendations, including a prioritized roadmap and executive narrative built on Diagnostic findings.
Annual memberships package the Diagnostic and Planning layers with sustained advisory support and Cyber Bridge® small-group coaching, with year-over-year progress against your baseline.
Cyber Readiness · Featured Family
Cyber Heat Map plots capability adoption across technical categories and operational readiness levels, so leaders can see at a glance where the institution is strong, where it’s exposed, and what to fund next. Recommendations come from the methodology; peer benchmarking grounds them.
Grounded in 200+ peer assessments, updated as engagements complete
The CampusCISO Trust Anchor
Three structural commitments that define working with us: how we use AI in client work, how we handle institutional data, and how we make the methodology transparent.
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AI streamlines the analytical groundwork. A senior expert reviews and validates every output, with two checkpoints before anything reaches you.
02
We run each engagement in its own dedicated workspace and never train AI models with client data. The workspace is deleted when the work is done.
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We publish our frameworks under Creative Commons, so you can read and use the exact methods before, during, and after a paid engagement.
Founder-Led Delivery
“Planning for cybersecurity shouldn’t be as hard as it often ends up being.”
CampusCISO was founded by Chris Schreiber, who brings nearly 30 years of higher education technology leadership, including CISO roles at the University of Chicago, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and client-facing leadership at SunGard Higher Education and FireEye/Mandiant. Work is delivered by the founder, not handed to junior analysts.
A scored picture of where your program stands, without open-ended billable hours.