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Comprehensive log collection, correlation, and monitoring tailored for educational institutions.

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We are a dedicated startup team of cybersecurity professionals with extensive experience in enterprise security, security research and higher education IT environments. Our mission is to bridge the gap between complex cybersecurity solutions and the unique needs of educational institutions.

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Our founding team brings together over 5 years of combined expertise in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and educational technology, with a diverse background that blends years of security research and hands-on security monitoring.

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Cybersecurity Solutions for Universities and Colleges

• extremely affordable SIEM
• Integration with MS Entra ID and Shibboleth
• Storage and energy efficient solution

CSSO Basic Implementation

Additional Benefits

• Zero False Positives
• Comprehensive configuration together with Team CSSO

Comprehensive Zero False Alert-CSSO (ZFAC-SSO) comes with additional

Secure cloud solutions for online learning platforms, research collaboration, and campus-wide digital services.

Educational Cloud Security

Comprehensive protection of student records, research data, and intellectual property with FERPA compliance.

Student Data Protection

24/7 monitoring of campus networks, student systems, and research infrastructure to protect against cyber threats.

Campus Security Monitoring

Security information and event management designed for the complex IT environments of higher education institutions.

Educational SIEM Solutions

Specialized threat intelligence tailored to common attack vectors targeting educational institutions and student data.

Education-Focused Threat Intelligence

Comprehensive security assessments of learning management systems, student portals, and research databases.

Academic System Vulnerability Assessment

Cybersecurity solutions for higher education

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Wazuh for PAM Security and More

Specialized cybersecurity services designed for colleges, universities, and educational institutions.

Higher Education

With operational costs of over 200,000 USD per annum, most SIEM technologies fail to meet the needs of higher education institutions with their restricted budget frames.

Unbeatable Pricing

With memory-efficient technology and international collaboration, team CSSO is able to disrupt state-of-the-art pricing models and offer affordable advanced cybersecurity to those who cannot afford over-priced solutions.

You can save over 75 % by reaching out to us today. Stay tuned to learn more about CSSO ...

Making SOC SIEM Affordable for Higher Ed

Streamline your security infrastructure deployment with automated Wazuh agent installation across heterogeneous environments using Ansible playbooks for both Linux and Windows systems.

Automating Wazuh Agent Installation on Linux and Windows with Ansible

Implement robust real-time protection mechanisms to defend your Keycloak identity provider against brute force attacks and credential guessing attempts using Wazuh monitoring.

Real-Time Protection for Your Keycloak: Stopping Brute Force and Credential Guessing with Wazuh

Learn how to identify suspicious account sharing patterns in educational platforms using advanced log correlation techniques with Wazuh SIEM and Shibboleth authentication logs.

Detecting Account Sharing Abuse in Moodle LMS Using Shibboleth Logs and Wazuh Correlation

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Respond rapidly and effectively to cyber incidents, minimizing impact and ensuring continuous protection.

Quick Security Incident Response

Gain actionable insights from global threat data to proactively protect your institution against cyber attacks.

Threat Intelligence Integration

Streamline the detection and remediation of system weaknesses with efficient, automated processes.

Automated Vulnerability Management

Hacker Detection Without False Positive Alerts

We Got Your Rhythm

Protect your institution's digital assets and sensitive data with advanced, cost-effective cybersecurity solutions tailored for universities and colleges.

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Cybersecurity Solutions for Higher Education

10.000$/year total costs. Yes. You heard it right.

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Unbeatable pricing on global-standard security solutions

Why Pay More? Open Source SIEM Done Right

Stay compliant, stay secure, and protect your institution with affordable, enterprise-grade cybersecurity.

Secure hybrid learning platforms and cloud apps while staying compliant with education standards.

Cloud & Compliance Security

Centralize logs, automate alerts, and meet compliance with seamless SIEM integration for universities.

Actionable intelligence tailored to higher education to anticipate and mitigate evolving cyber risks.

Threat Intelligence

24/7 monitoring of your digital campus to detect, alert, and respond to cyber threats in real time.

Safeguard student records, research data, and faculty access with strong encryption and IAM controls.

Data & Identity Protection

Identify and address system weaknesses before attackers do, ensuring a resilient academic environment.

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Cyber Defense Built for Higher Education

Our international team comprises a unique blend of cybersecurity professionals, research and startup experience. Go for Team CSSO to bring your network's security infrastructure to the next level.

Computer Science Researcher in the field of CPU-friendly AI -> eBPF

Dr. Alex Carrega

Computer Science PhD-Student and Teacher.

Auvarique Tchakounté

Technical expert and valuable team member in our cybersecurity initiatives.

Brian Pichman

Cybersecurity specialist and team member contributing to our mission.

Cédric

PhD Candidate and Security Engineer With Strong Background in Computer Science.

Fidèle Tsognong

Background in Business Administration and Great Familiarity With the StartUp Scene.

Leonard Janke

M.Sc. Library Computer Science With Specialization in Cyber Security.

Petra Drotleff

Our team is complemented by about 5 to 10 Cameroonian programmers.

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We provide a full stack of cyber defense services designed for higher education institutions.

How we work

Seamless integrations with external tools.

API Integrations

Automated remediation and critical notifications.

Extended Detection & Response

Real-time monitoring and regulatory reporting.

File Integrity & Compliance

Real-time security event monitoring and analysis.

Log Collection & Analysis

Continuous scanning and automated assessments.

Vulnerability Management

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The biggest drawback of modern SIEMs is their high number of false positive alerts.

Why is that? It's because today’s SIEMs lack the most important factor for improving detection quality - which is: the contextual knowledge held by corporate employees.

Unlike SOC teams, employees carry crucial contextual insights in their minds, often in qualitative form, allowing them to judge alerts more accurately than automated systems in SOCs.

We translate these qualitative insights, i.e. the employee's knowledge, into quantitative data.
Figuratively speaking, we capture the rhythm of your IT infrastructure. And we do this more accurately than this has ever been done before.

From a mathematical perspective, today’s SIEMs rely on Bayesian inference-based risk scores to detect attackers. This topic is rarely discussed because Bayesian methods require well-defined probability distributions to work — but SIEMs do not meet these assumptions. For this reason alone, their reliability should be questioned.

We won’t dive deeper into theory here. Instead, we present the solution: deterministic workflows and variables grounded in frequentist principles. That is: Hacker alerts with a 100 % reliability. And no, AI cannot fix this fundamental issue with/of Bayesian approaches.

Why Today's Cybersec Software Gets It All Wrong

Worldwide novel security approach

Employee Knowledge Is Key

Open-Source SOC-SIEM for SMEs: Next to our novel technology, we also offer pragmatic open-source SIEMs.

We are one of the few openly speaking out that SMEs are mostly forced by legislators to implement SIEMs. We stand critical on forcing enterprises and organizations to high spendings. However, we can instead offer an affordable state-of-the-art implementation in accordance with ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz or other norms.

Why Open Source Hacker Detection Wins

SOC-SIEM for SMEs

All modern SIEMs lack the most important data, which is: The context knowledge of employees. We at CSSO solutions are the first to tackle the most important problem of SIEMs and prove to the world that alerts without false-positives are possible.

Have you ever wondered why all SOCs have huge problems assessing alerts – while an employee without any cybersec background can easily differentiate if an alert is real or not? The reason is that employees have way more data resp. variables in their head than SIEMs. Employees know which software they are using on a day-to-day basis, which mails they are writing to who and so on. This is sort of the real context knowledge that employees have but the machine lacks.

This is also data resp. variables – but we're speaking of those data, which can not be automatically generated via algos based on log-files. For example, it is your Employees who know which software they are using on a daily basis, which mails they are writing to who and so on.

"Never change a running system." And with Team CSSO on board, there'll be no need for that. We can massively improve your existing system and help you reduce costs at the same time. Thus, no need to force yourself to embrace novel SIEM technologies which obviously would trigger even higher costs and friction. It's plug and play for you and our alerts are not in need of a huge processing power, large databases and so on.

But if it is that simple - Why has nobody else so far ensued our approach? The reason is that our alerts are based on an extensive, rigid approach that takes many hours of our employees. With Western salaries of cybersec staff, our approach is financially very expensive. Therefore, this idea partly derives from Cameroon/Western Africa where it is financially still possible to have an extensive implementation. Selling algos is also a scalable business when it comes down to finding investors for your business. In reality though, human staff is still very much needed to reach excellent alert assessment.

We're Also Great a Fit for Legacy SIEMs

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Fidèle Tsognong (Founder)

Petra Drotleff (Co-Founder)

Leonard Janke (Business Development)

Dr. Alex Carrega (Adviser)

Auvarique Tchakounté (Management)

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