AI SECURITY FOR EDUCATION
AI Security Assessment for Education
Protect student data and govern EdTech AI as institutions embrace AI-powered learning tools.
Education Is Adopting AI Faster Than It Can Secure It
Teachers use AI to generate lesson plans and grade assignments. Students submit work through AI-powered plagiarism detection tools. Administrators deploy AI chatbots for enrollment and advising. In each case, sensitive student data — names, grades, disability accommodations, disciplinary records — flows into AI systems that most school IT teams have never evaluated for privacy or security compliance.
The threat landscape is severe. The education sector endured an average of 4,388 cyberattacks per organization every week in Q2 2025 — more than double the global average. The Center for Internet Security found that 82% of K-12 schools reported a cyber incident between July 2023 and December 2024. Critically, according to K12 SIX, over 75% of K-12 data breaches originate not from the schools themselves but from their third-party EdTech vendors, meaning schools are only as secure as the weakest link in their vendor ecosystem.
FERPA protects student education records but contains no explicit cybersecurity requirements and does not mandate breach notification to parents. This regulatory gap means institutions must build governance frameworks that go beyond minimum compliance. As AI tutoring, AI grading, and AI-powered student analytics proliferate, institutions that lack AI-specific security assessments risk exposing the data of minors to breaches that carry lasting identity theft and privacy consequences.
Regulatory & Compliance Landscape
FERPA
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects student education records but predates AI and lacks explicit cybersecurity requirements. Assessments must evaluate how AI tools access, process, and store student records beyond what FERPA's baseline privacy protections cover.
COPPA
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act applies to K-12 settings where students under 13 interact with AI-powered EdTech tools, imposing strict requirements on data collection, parental consent, and the types of information that can be processed.
State Student Privacy Laws
States including California (SOPIPA), New York (Education Law 2-d), and Illinois (ISSPA) impose student data protections beyond FERPA — with specific requirements for vendor agreements, data governance, and breach notification that apply directly to AI-powered EdTech tools.
NIST CSF 2.0
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 provides the structured governance approach education institutions need to assess and manage AI-related risks, with its Govern function specifically addressing organizational context, risk management strategy, and supply chain oversight.
What We Assess in Education
Student Data in AI Tools
Identify where student PII — names, grades, IEP data, disciplinary records — enters AI systems, and evaluate data handling, retention policies, and whether student data contributes to AI model training.
EdTech Vendor AI Features
Assess third-party EdTech platforms for AI features that process student data, covering vendor data practices, contractual protections, and the security posture of AI components embedded in learning management systems.
AI Tutoring & Grading Tools
Evaluate AI systems used for personalized tutoring, automated grading, and adaptive learning — including accuracy validation, bias detection, and safeguards for student data processed by these tools.
Research AI Tools
Review AI tools used in higher education research for data governance, IRB compliance, intellectual property protections, and the handling of research data that may include human subjects information.
Plagiarism Detection AI
Assess AI-powered plagiarism detection services for how they store, process, and potentially share student submissions — including data retention policies and the use of student work to train detection models.
HOW IT WORKS
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Connect Your Network
Upload firewall or DNS logs, or deploy our lightweight Docker collector. No agents on endpoints. We read metadata only — never your data.
See Every AI Tool
Within minutes, see a complete inventory of AI tools in use across your organization. Set policies: approved, monitored, or restricted.
Prove Compliance
Run assessments against 11 compliance frameworks. Get AI-powered remediation playbooks, track progress over time, and download audit-ready reports.
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Free for your first AISS assessment. Pro $1,200/yr for a paid framework. Business $3,600/yr for the full compliance suite. Enterprise from $15,000/yr — published floor, never hidden.
Glass-Box scoring
Every category score is fully derivable from your answers and the published AISS methodology. Your auditor can reproduce the math from the public spec alone.
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