The George Washington Univesity
Increasingly, education is going online. From delivering services to students, to managing internal people and resources, recruiting and conducting classes, education institutions are turning to the Web to streamline processes and cut costs. Every day, universities and colleges transport volumes of sensitive data over their networks. This includes student social security and bank account numbers, credit card and driver’s license information, logins and password credentials, and even confidential, scientific research.
These institutions are subject to internal policies and external regulations created to protect sensitive data. Regulatory guidelines include the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), California Security Breach Information Act (SB-1386), Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard and, for those institutions with associated healthcare facilities, the Healthcare Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Reconnex understands that information management is central to effective functioning and delivery of the educational process — whether protecting valuable student records, providing collaboration tools for the sharing of university research data, or bringing innovative technologies to the classroom.
Educational institutions rely on Reconnex to help protect their critical business information. Reconnex helps them:
- Monitor, capture, analyze, and index all known and unknown threats entering or leaving the network
- Identify sensitive data “at rest” before it results in an information leak
- Ensure FERPA by protecting student education records
- Ensure PCI and HIPAA compliance by providing pre-defined rules that automatically scan for credit card and patient health information
- Mitigate the risk of fines or lawsuits due to noncompliance or data leakage
- Protect the institution’s reputation
Today, Reconnex provides information protection solutions that address privacy data for some of the biggest names in higher education, including George Washington University.
