Industries — Education

Identity Security for Education

In education, one person is an applicant, then a student, often a worker or researcher, then an alum — and their access has to keep up at every step, for decades, across IT that's spread among colleges and departments. We govern that whole lifecycle, protect student and research data, and help you prove it under FERPA.

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The challenge

One identity, many roles, decades of access

In most sectors, a person joins, holds a job, and leaves. In education, the same identity can be an applicant, a student, a teaching assistant, a researcher, an employee, and an alum — sometimes several at once — and the institution keeps a relationship with them long after they graduate.

Underneath that sits decentralized IT: colleges and departments running their own systems, federated logins to hundreds of applications, shared lab machines, and student records and research data that FERPA and funders expect you to protect. Access changes constantly, and the place it breaks is the transitions.

The lifecycle

Access has to follow people for life

A campus identity rarely starts or ends cleanly. It changes role over years, and every transition is an access change waiting to be missed.

01

Applicant

Limited, time-boxed access to portals before they ever set foot on campus.

02

Student

Email, the LMS, library, labs, and registration — scoped to their program and year.

03

Faculty & staff

Administrative systems, grading, research data, HR — often held alongside a student role.

04

Alumni

Access that downgrades for life — not left lingering over-privileged, not abruptly cut.

From the day they apply to long after they graduate — the right access at every step.

The approach

How to keep access in step

01

Move people through every role automatically

We tie provisioning to your SIS and HR systems and grant access by role and program, so access changes the moment someone's status does — applicant to student, student to staff, staff to alum — and handles people who hold several affiliations at once. Access reviews keep it honest, and graduation downgrades access instead of leaving an open account behind. This is our identity governance work.

02

Protect student records and research data

We vault and monitor the privileged access behind your SIS, research and high-performance computing systems, and the databases that hold FERPA-protected records — bringing the scattered admin accounts across departments under least privilege and session control. This is our privileged access management work.

03

Bring decentralized IT under one program

Colleges and departments each run their own systems, and that's not going to change. We operate identity centrally across them — keeping federation and single sign-on consistent and the FERPA-relevant controls current — so autonomy doesn't mean fragmented, unprovable access. This is our managed IAM work.

What we secure

From the LMS to the research lab

Across teaching, research, and the identity backbone that connects them.

Teaching & student systems
Student information systems (Banner, PeopleSoft, Workday Student)Learning management (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle)
Research & computing
Research data storesHigh-performance computing clustersGrant & sponsored-research systems
Identity & infrastructure
Active DirectoryMicrosoft Entra IDFederated SSO (Shibboleth / InCommon)Google WorkspaceAWSAzureGCP

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Free audit

See who can reach your student and research data.

Book a free identity security audit — we'll reach out to scope it, review your environment with you, and deliver your findings. No cost, no obligation.

FAQ

What institutions ask first

Can you work with our decentralized, multi-campus IT?
Yes — we govern identity centrally while respecting departmental autonomy, using federation and a shared role model so colleges and departments keep their own systems while access stays consistent and provable across all of them.
How do you help with FERPA?
We focus on the access controls FERPA implies — least-privilege access to education records, logging of who accessed what, and prompt deprovisioning when a role ends — and keep the evidence current, so you can demonstrate it rather than reconstruct it.