(Privacy Rights Clearinghouse)

In recent years, this trend of data loss has steadily increased – and not just in the higher education sector. K-12 institutions are often viewed as easy targets by hackers, or fall victim to accidental disclosures from unprotected endpoints. In today’s increasingly cloud-based business world, school districts are often encouraged to share student or school data with a rising number of third party vendors in order to supply educational services or to increase parental or community involvement. While these services, such as student IDs or parent financial accounts may be necessary, they also provide additional avenues for student data to leave a secure network. There is also the recent trend within the higher education sector for each member of the student body to utilize their personal information for offsite coursework, dormitory designation, and social mandates – all within the educational institution’s communal network. While deemed as necessary, these institutional trends can work in creating dangerous variables to how crucial personal data can be accessed.

The innerActiv Education Solution:
innerActiv can help meet this challenge by preventing accidental disclosures, locating and protecting student or employee data, monitoring compliance requirements, and even bringing awareness to threatening language or behavior in the educational environment. In the event of cyber-bulling or language and behavior representative of a hostile work environment, innerActiv proves its unmatched value as a provider of comprehensive and accessible data security. We can do this by:

• Providing a user-friendly and low-overhead monitoring solution to maintain low IT and resource costs
• Scanning endpoints and file shares to identify data being stored insecurely
• Monitoring or preventing print jobs containing highly sensitive or inappropriate information
• Alerting on or preventing emails that contain student or employee data from traveling to unapproved recipients
• Monitoring keyword usage in chat, IM, websites, or email for threatening or inappropriate language
• Alerting when a print screen event takes place that may include sensitive data
• Tracking and alerting on violations to HIPAA, FERPA, or any other key compliance initiatives
• Monitoring for the usage of administrator access codes by non-administrators

Let innerActiv’s innovative security features truly work for you, not only providing the comprehensive internal monitoring solutions to successfully locate preexisting compliance breaches and other insidious forms of internal threats, but also in educating you and your team how to properly move forward in averting such potential dangers in the future.