Make your school or institution phishing-resistant
Shira helps faculty, administrative staff, and IT teams recognize and stop phishing recognize and stop phishing across email, SMS, messaging apps, and social media.
Create training tailored to your institution, measure progress, and strengthen everyday security habits—without coding or specialized IT expertise.
Start your institution's trainingPhishing can reach your team anywhere
A suspicious message might arrive in a staff inbox, a department group chat, a text message, or even a social media account. It may look like a student-portal alert, an enrollment or financial-aid notification, or a message from a colleague, a vendor, IT support, or a student.
Educational institutions face persistent identity risks
Stolen credentials appear in 65% of breaches involving hacking actions in the education sector.
The human element is the biggest gap
The human element is involved in 68% of education sector data breaches—more than in almost any other industry.
Phishing follows the way people communicate
Email is only one part of the picture. Today's phishing attempts also appear through SMS, messaging apps, social media, and other tools people use every day.
With Shira, you can…
- Create training tailored to your institution
- Measure progress
- Strengthen everyday security habits
All without coding or specialized IT expertise.
Built for education institutions
Educational institutions protect more than systems and data. They protect students, staff, and the trust of the families and communities that depend on them.
Education has one of the highest breach rates of any sector, with 79% of reported security incidents resulting in a confirmed breach. Unlike organizations with dedicated security teams, many educational institutions operate with limited IT resources—training your staff is one of the highest-leverage ways to close that gap.
Shira gives education organizations practical, accessible phishing education designed for the way school and university teams actually work—with limited resources, busy schedules, and communication happening across multiple channels. We have more than a decade of experience building tools that help make people and organizations safer online.
Try a sample education campaignBuild a phishing defense program in minutes
Start with ready-made quizzes from the Shira library and customize them for your institution, or build quizzes from scratch.
Create training for the situations your teams encounter every day, including fake student-portal or LMS notifications, phishing financial-aid or tuition messages, fake vendor invoices, urgent messages impersonating administrators, payroll fraud, requests involving student or staff records, and compromised accounts.
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Why choose Shira?
Realistic and multichannel 📱
Attacks that reach people outside of email, through SMS, WhatsApp or social media, succeed at higher rates than traditional email phishing. Training only for the inbox leaves that gap open.
Practice with realistic phishing scenarios across email, SMS, messaging apps, and social media. Train people in the tools, languages, and communication channels they use every day—not just in a simulated inbox.
Built for education workflows 👩🏾🏫
Create exercises for faculty, administrative staff, IT, contractors, and support teams.
Tailor training to the systems, roles, and risks that matter most to your institution. Write scenarios in your own words, referencing the systems and situations your teams actually deal with.
Reinforce learning over time ⏱️
Short, practical exercises help people recognize warning signs and make safer decisions repeatedly.
Shira supports ongoing education instead of relying on one-off tests that measure only a single moment.
Track progress and identify knowledge gaps 📈
See who is improving, understand which topics need more attention, and identify knowledge gaps across teams and roles.
Use progress insights to focus your training where it can have the greatest impact.
Accessible to every member of your institution 📖
Make phishing education approachable for people with different roles, technical backgrounds, schedules, and levels of security experience.
Clear, practical exercises help everyone participate.
Easy to deploy 👩🏽💻
Build and manage training within minutes and without coding or specialized IT expertise.
Shira helps small security teams and resource-constrained organizations create a practical phishing education program quickly.
Privacy-friendly 🔒
Shira doesn't collect, process, or store student or staff records. Training scenarios use simulated content, not real institutional data, so you can train your team without adding new exposure.
Help your team protect the students in your care
Faculty and academic staff 🧑🏻🏫
Help faculty recognize suspicious requests, unusual links—including fake student-portal or LMS notifications—fake login pages, and messages impersonating colleagues, administrators, students, or vendors.
Administrative teams 👨🏾💼
Prepare administrative staff to identify payroll fraud, vendor impersonation, account takeover attempts, and requests involving student or staff records.
Support and operations teams 👷🏻♂️
Help IT, facilities, and operations staff spot phishing attempts that could disrupt essential services or expose sensitive information.
Distributed and partner teams 🌎
Give contractors, remote staff, and partner organizations practical tools to recognize suspicious communication wherever they work.
Security education should be accessible to everyone
Shira is a product of Horizontal, a technology nonprofit dedicated to making online security accessible to everyone.
We built Shira because organizations—especially those without dedicated security teams—deserve practical, affordable tools to protect their teams, patients, and communities.
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