Colleges and universities

You can't install security software on every student's phone. You can give every student somewhere to turn.

SmishAlert gives students, faculty and staff an immediate way to verify suspicious messages, while giving your security team visibility into coordinated attacks across campus.

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REPORT: the student experience

One number. Entire campus.

No app requirement. No MDM requirement. No account required. No help-desk ticket. A student forwards the message and gets an answer they can act on.

1
A student gets a convincing message
A Microsoft account alert the week classes start. A job offer from a professor. A tuition hold that needs a payment today.
2
They text it to the campus security number
Screenshot, copied text or the sender. The number is on the student portal, the orientation deck and the back of the ID card.
3
They get an answer
In plain language, with a next step that points them to the real portal.
4
Security sees the campaign
Thirty reports of the same lure in a morning is one campaign, and your team knows it before the help desk does.

Messages

Your university Microsoft 365 account will be suspended in 24h. Re-verify: m365-campus-login.com

Fwd: Your university Microsoft 365 account will be suspended...

Likely fraudulent. Do not tap the link. Go directly to the university portal you normally use.

Example thread. Assessments are one of four: Likely fraudulent, Suspicious, No clear signs of fraud detected, or We can't determine this confidently.

Every student. Every phone. Day one.

Coverage does not depend on installs, so it does not decay when the semester gets busy.

Campaign IntelligenceExample

Semester-start credential lure

Impersonating Microsoft · Account suspension in 24h

Reports

112

First seen

Yesterday

Channels

SMS, WhatsApp

Reports, last 7 days9 today

Latest report

Reporter #A83F · +1 (555) 019-8841

Your university Microsoft 365 account will be suspended in 24h. Re-verify now: m365-campus-login.com

Likely fraudulent

UNDERSTAND: what your security team sees

Coordinated attacks across campus, the same morning.

Reports from students, faculty and staff are grouped automatically into campaigns, so your team can warn the population that is being targeted while the lure is still landing.

Which campaigns are hitting students, faculty or staff right now
The brand being impersonated (the university, Microsoft, a bank, a professor)
Volume and timing, so a semester-start spike is visible as it starts
What to tell the campus, backed by what people actually received

Gain intelligence on scams targeting your population while campaigns are still active, giving security and IT teams time to investigate, warn the campus and coordinate a response.

Campaign Intelligence. The automatic identification of coordinated activity across reports and protected devices. When a message or link is confirmed malicious, the next unknown-sender check on any protected iPhone marks it automatically.

PROTECT: high-risk populations, further

Protect the people attackers target by name.

Some populations warrant proactive protection on the device itself. The app extends it to them on managed and personal phones, with the same console your team already uses.

Executives and the president's officeFinance and bursarIT administratorsResearch personnelAthletics leadershipOther targeted populations

SmishAlert is a lightweight iOS and Android app: managed fleets deploy it through your MDM (zero-touch), and BYOD users self-install and redeem a code. Reporting by text needs no app at all.

High-risk user protection

One platform

Report. Understand. Protect.

The same platform your fraud and security teams use for the people you serve extends to the people you employ.

1 of 3

REPORT

Give anyone a trusted place to send suspicious messages and get immediate guidance. No app required.

Customers, students, employees, anyone your organization serves.

2 of 3

UNDERSTAND

Give security teams visibility into attacks, targeting patterns, campaigns and organizational exposure.

Security, fraud and IT leadership.

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PROTECT

Proactively identify and stop threats for employees and high-risk users.

Your workforce, executives, and the people attackers target most.

How the platform fits together

Why this holds up

Reports are cheap; triage is what you are buying, and SmishAlert does the triage before it reaches your team.

SANS 2026: fewer organizations have control over or visibility into employees' mobile devices, which is one reason smishing keeps rising.

Messages you send are analyzed to answer you and are not kept. Your phone number is not stored on a permanent record.

No MDM needed for reporting. The app is optional, for the populations you choose to protect proactively.

FAQ

Questions security leaders ask

Does this require students to install an app or enroll in MDM?

No. Reporting by text needs nothing installed and no account. The app is optional and only for populations you choose to protect proactively, such as finance or IT administrators.

Do we see who reported?

Reporters appear as opaque identifiers by default, never as phone numbers. Your team sees the campaign, the lure and the volume.

What about FERPA and student privacy?

Reporting is an intentional act by the student. Messages are analyzed to answer them and are not kept, and phone numbers are not stored on a permanent record. Full details are in the privacy documentation and available under NDA for your review.

How is this priced?

As a platform contract for the institution. Talk to the team and we will scope it to your campus.

Campus protection

Give every student a security team they can text.

A short walkthrough of the student experience and the security view, then a credited pilot for one semester start.

Protect Your Campus Talk to the team

Or take the 2-minute self-evaluation , no email required.