Heimdal for UK schools
One agent. Seven jobs. One console.
Schools usually reach us running three or four security products from three or four vendors, each with its own console, its own renewal date and its own invoice. Heimdal is the alternative, and you can buy two parts of it rather than all seven.
Ceidwad helps schools work out where Heimdal fits, which modules are worth buying — and, just as often, where to stop.
Comprehensive Security, Simplified
Heimdal’s platform in one picture: seven categories, every module inside them, and the console they all report into.
Network
Vulnerability Management
Privileged Access Management
Email & Collaboration Security
Unified Endpoint Management
Unified Security & Compliance Platform
Protect Digital Surfaces
Network
Endpoint
Cloud
Data
IdentityDefense in Depth
API Integrations
Remote Monitoring & Management
Firewall
Professional Services AutomationCompliance & Reporting Support
NIS2 • Cyber Essentials • CIS Controls • NIST • MITRE ATT&CK • ISO27001 • DORA • Essential Eight • ISAE 3000
Two of the seven carry nearly all of it
School cyber security is bigger than antivirus — and Heimdal’s menu is bigger than most schools need. It is built for an enterprise security team. For a single school or a small trust, this is the order we would buy in, and we will tell you where to stop.
Start here
Endpoint Security
Antivirus, firewall, DNS filtering on the device and ransomware encryption protection. This is the layer that meets the thing which actually happens to schools, on the laptops staff carry home.
Then this
Vulnerability Management
Patching operating systems and third-party software automatically. Unpatched software is the least glamorous thing to fix, which is exactly why it does not get done by hand.
Only if
Managed XDR
A staffed 24/7 SOC watching your estate. Worth it for a large trust with nobody on call at three in the morning. Hard to justify for a single primary, and we will say so rather than sell it.
A licence, per device, renewed each year
Networking hardware is a capital purchase the school owns outright. A Heimdal licence is a subscription, and the bill returns whether or not the school grew that year.
One
Tell us the estate
Device count, server count, and whether anyone is on call out of hours. That decides which modules are worth having.
Two
We quote the modules
Only the ones you need, each named with its term. Nothing bundled in to pad the figure.
Three
Your IT deploys it
One agent, pushed however you already push software. We are not trying to replace whoever runs your network.
Four
Renewal is a decision
We will tell you before it renews, and tell you honestly if you should drop a module you have not used.
Why buy it through Ceidwad?
Don’t buy more security. Buy the right security. Cyber security isn’t about collecting products — it’s about understanding your risks and putting the right controls around them. We start with your estate and your requirements, then recommend the Heimdal modules that make sense and name the ones that don’t.
We understand schools
Recommendations start from the realities of education IT — the budget, the workload, and who actually looks after the devices.
We know the platform
We can tell you which modules earn their keep in a school, rather than simply reselling a licence and wishing you well.
Right-sized security
The protection your school needs, without paying for complexity that was built for somebody else’s security team.
Connected thinking
Security spend should fit into your school’s wider cyber security and assurance picture, not sit apart from it.
Not sure which modules you need?
Send us the estate and we will come back with a specified quote against it, including the modules we would leave out and why.