Protect What Matters Most – Student, Faculty, and Donor Sensitive Data
Higher education institutions collect the most sensitive information from their students, faculty, administration, and donors. A single student record offers a comprehensive view of a student’s life, including personal demographic data, academic records, and financial and medical information. This invaluable data puts their security constantly at risk, so it’s no wonder educational institutions rank fourth in the sheer volume of data breaches they experience — breaches that adversely impact donor, student, and family decisions.
From HIPAA to FERPA to GLBA, higher education must comply with multiple data privacy regulations to safeguard an ever-expanding body of data. The need to ensure accurate, compliant, and secure data is further complicated by the need for open, accessible networks that enable free and flexible learning. With so much data at risk — from students’ protected health information (PHI) and credit card numbers to faculty research — higher education institutions must take proactive measures to minimize vulnerabilities.
Spirion provides the solution to this, enabling institutions to accurately discover and classify personal data according to compliance regulations and campus rules, understand the data within the context of the institution, and take actions to protect the personal data privacy of students, their guardians, and faculty that uphold compliance as well.
Identify sensitive data, classify different data types by their level of sensitivity, and protect personal data to prevent compromise and misuse.
Enhance security posture by making informed decisions based on business insights.
Facilitate compliance with GDPR, CCPA, GLBA, PCI-DSS, and other relevant data protection laws and regulations.
Data breaches of higher education institutions over the last 15 years have exposed nearly 18.4 million records.
Comparitech 20202 analysis of data breaches in U.S. schools since 2005
The average cost-per-record of a data breach in education.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021
Fifty of the top U.S. colleges trust Spirion to secure their sensitive data.
U.S. News & World Report 2021 Best Colleges
Restricting nonconsensual disclosure of education records to preserve student data privacy
Granting parents control over the information websites collect from their children
Regulating how financial institutions share and protect customer data
Securing patient health information within organizations
Improving privacy and security of healthcare data amid ongoing digital transformations
Safeguarding payment card data across global transactions
What if you could automatically and persistently discover, classify, understand, control, and protect sensitive data in a way that ensured compliance but also allowed for business agility? With Spirion, you can.
As data proliferates, discovery becomes exponentially more difficult. Most organizations have terabytes and petabytes of data spread across servers, laptops, and other devices. Solving the problem requires a Privacy-Grade™ discovery solution with enough breadth to search all locations and depth to find any data type.
Once you have located all of your data, the automated application of persistent labels, tags, and visual markers helps both humans and computers determine its sensitivity and treat it consistently. Classification ensures that only appropriate parties can access sensitive data as it moves through the organization and supports information sharing with other data protection controls.
After Discovery and Classification are complete, each team can gain a better understanding of its data footprint. A full picture of your data inventory allows you to operationalize data, foster organizational productivity, conduct historical reviews and analysis, ensure competitiveness, and maintain data privacy.
To secure unprotected data, you need to control who can see it, when they can see it, and what they can do with it during any data lifecycle action – from creation to disposal. Control includes file shredding, redaction, quarantine, reduction of access rights, third-party controls, and role management at the job-role or server administration level.
Consumers can demand the right to know and the right to be forgotten. Contracts with vendors often require data privacy safeguards. Auditors and industry-specific regulators have their own rules about how consumer data is collected, stored, and used. With regulations on the rise, proactive protection is more critical than ever.
Protect sensitive information with a solution that is customizable to your organizational needs. When your job is to protect sensitive data, you need the flexibility to choose solutions that support your security and privacy initiatives.
Not knowing where sensitive client financial data resides and failing to take the right security precautions can be a costly mistake for your organization. Find out how Data privacy is treated in your sector.
