Educational Institution Security Program
Comprehensive security assessment for educational institutions, covering student data protection, campus infrastructure, and remote learning systems.
In scope
- Student data protection review
- Campus network assessment
- Remote learning security evaluation
- Physical security analysis
- FERPA compliance assessment
You receive
- Education security framework
- Data protection strategy
- Network security analysis
- Physical security recommendations
- Compliance documentation
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core Education Security Assessment
$45K
Assessment for an institution of up to 2,500 students and staff on 1 campus: student data protection review, FERPA gap assessment, network architecture review, remote learning platform review and a physical security walkthrough. Report and recommendations.
- Users
- 2500
- Sites
- 1
- Student data protection review
- FERPA compliance gap assessment
- Campus network architecture review (document and config based)
- Remote learning platform security review
- Physical security walkthrough of 1 campus
- — Network vulnerability scanning or penetration testing
- — Compliance documentation writing
- — Implementation support
- — Additional campuses
Advanced Education Security Program
$75K
Up to 10,000 students and staff across up to 3 campuses. Adds vulnerability scanning of campus networks, a segment-by-segment infrastructure analysis, a complete FERPA compliance review with documentation, and a data protection strategy.
- Users
- 10000
- Sites
- 3
- Everything in the Core assessment, for up to 3 campuses
- Vulnerability scanning of campus networks
- Infrastructure analysis per network segment
- FERPA compliance documentation
- Data protection strategy
- Education security framework
- — Program implementation and project management
- — Custom data-protection tooling or scripts
- — Penetration testing
- — Staff and student training delivery
Enterprise Education Security Solution
$120K
Full-scope education security with custom protection tools and complete program implementation
- Sites
- 10
- — Purchase of hardware or software licences
- — Physical security equipment installation
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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