Education Cybersecurity & Compliance
MYITMANAGER takes 100% ownership from assessment to remediation—reducing ransomware and data-loss risk, protecting student/employee PII and research data, and delivering audit-ready evidence for schools, universities, research institutes, exam boards, and edtech platforms. We align controls to the DPDP Act., GDPR, FERPA (US), COPPA (under-13 privacy), ISO 27001/27701, SOC 2 (for vendors), NIST CSF, and UAE PDPL.
What we deliver
- Risk Assessment → Remediation: Risk-ranked findings mapped to DPDP/GDPR/FERPA/ISO/NIST with owners, timelines, and evidence packs.
- Identity & Access (Zero Trust): SSO/SAML/OAuth, MFA for staff & faculty, least privilege, role-based SIS/LMS access, device posture, just-in-time admin access.
- Data Protection & Privacy: Student/employee data discovery & classification, DLP, encryption/KMS/tokenization, consent and parental-consent (COPPA), ROPA, DSR workflows, retention & deletion (graduation/alumni).
- Threat Detection & Response: MDR/SOC tuned for campus networks and cloud apps—exfiltration of student records, mass file encryption, crypto-mining on lab PCs, privileged changes; UEBA; tabletop exercises.
- App & API Security (LMS/ERP/SIS/Edtech): Secure headers, CSP/SRI for web apps, API gateway protections, rate-limiting, secrets hygiene, CI/CD hardening.
- Endpoint, Wi-Fi & IoT: MDM for BYOD/1:1 devices, network segmentation (student vs. admin vs. research), NAC, secure BMS/CCTV/IoT isolation.
- Third-Party & Vendor Risk: DPIAs, due diligence, data-sharing controls, partner-grade evidence for ministries, boards, and university systems.
- Governance & Audits: Policies/SoA, privacy notices, DPIA, training & awareness, compliance dashboards, inspection-ready artifacts (screens, configs, logs, mappings).
Outcomes
- Reduced ransomware and data-exfiltration exposure
- Faster MTTD/MTTR with education-specific detections
- Clean privacy and security audits with complete, traceable artifacts
- Safer learner experience without slowing instruction or research
Sub-sector specifics
Schools
MFA for staff • age-appropriate access & parental consent • classroom device control & web filtering • segmentation between student and admin networks • ransomware resilience & immutable backups.
Higher Education & Universities
Federated identity (SSO/SCIM) • research data protections & export controls where applicable • SOC for campus + cloud • lab/cluster hardening • alumni data retention & deletion policies.
Edtech Platforms & LMS Providers
SOC 2/ISO 27001 readiness • multi-tenant isolation • API security & rate-limiting • privacy-by-design and consent flows • secure CI/CD and secrets management • customer-facing evidence portals.
Exam Boards & Testing Bodies
Secure test content lifecycle • proctoring integrity & anti-cheat controls • restricted access & audit trails • partner and centre assurance • incident playbooks.
Why MYITMANAGER
- 100% ownership: discovery → remediation → evidence
- Results you can measure: risk reduced, findings closed, MTTR down
- Pragmatic prioritization: fixes by academic/business impact & audit need
- Education fluency: mapped to DPDP/GDPR/FERPA/COPPA/ISO 27001/27701/SOC 2/NIST/PDPL
FAQs
- How do you handle BYOD and student devices? MDM/endpoint controls, identity-centric access, and network segmentation with NAC—plus detections for mass encryption and exfiltration.
- Do you support FERPA and COPPA alongside DPDP/GDPR? Yes—we align privacy controls and evidence to the applicable laws, including parental consent, data minimization, and student rights.
- Can you secure our LMS/SIS integrations and APIs? Yes—token-based auth, least-privilege scopes, rate-limiting, CSP/SRI, and CI/CD hardening with change-control evidence.
- Do you provide audit evidence? Yes—screenshots, configs, logs, and control mappings with owners and timelines, ready for inspections.
Education institutions need to make cybersecurity a priority. It’s an unfortunate fact that, while cybersecurity in Education is necessary to protect against financial loss and prevent disruption, it’s also crucial to protect students from harm. Cybersecurity awareness training is important because it teaches students how they can protect themselves from cyber-attacks. Students will learn about phishing scams, malware, ransomware, and other computer threats. This is absolutely necessary for education institutions to keep students safe.
MYITMANAGER has a proven track record in cybersecurity solutions for education industry. Our IT Risk Assessment with Fixing Gaps, Data Security and Data Privacy Services, Infra and Cloud Security services, Identity and Access Management Service (IAM), IT Governance and Risk Compliance offers comprehensive end-to-end security and protect from cyber threats for education sector.