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FERPA-Aligned • COPPA-Ready • State Student Privacy Laws

API Security for Education
Protect Student Data

The AI Security Layer for education: SHA-256 hash-chain audit for FERPA-aligned record-of-disclosure, OS-level sandbox for AI tutoring agents, student PII auto-redaction before LLM calls. All 4 platforms from $399/mo.

FERPA-Aligned (34 CFR Part 99)
COPPA-Ready (under-13 protections)
Tamper-evident hash-chain audit
85,000+
threat patterns (24 categories)
11
compliance frameworks mapped
SHA-256
tamper-evident hash-chain audit
FERPA
record-of-disclosure logging
COPPA
under-13 PII auto-redaction
OS-level
sandbox for AI tutoring agents
Target: Sub-5ms
gateway proxy overhead (cached)
99.9%
Enterprise SLA · 1-hr P1

Education API Threats We Prevent

Proactive protection against threats targeting student data and education systems

Student Record Theft

Attackers target SIS APIs to steal student PII, grades, and disciplinary records. Behavioral baselines + Zero Trust risk scoring flag anomalous access on every request.

Prevention: Access control, anomaly detection, data masking

LMS Data Scraping

Bulk scraping of learning management system data including assessments, submissions, and student performance. Sliding-window rate limits + bundle-size caps block enumeration at the gateway.

Prevention: Rate limiting, pattern detection, query restrictions

Grade Manipulation

Students or bad actors attempt to manipulate grade submission APIs. Schema validation + role checks at the gateway, with SHA-256 hash-chain audit proving every change.

Prevention: Integrity checks, role validation, audit logging

Four Platforms for Education

API Security + MCP Security + AI Gateway + Verification Engine — unified under one correlation ID for education workloads

API Security

FERPA Compliance

Secure SIS, LMS, and assessment APIs. FERPA-aligned access control at the gateway with record-of-disclosure logging on every PII touch.

  • FERPA access control enforcement
  • Student record audit logging
  • Directory information controls

MCP Security

AI Tutoring

Secure AI tutoring agents and intelligent learning assistants. Every tools/call passes 7 sequential checks — permission, MFA, rate limit, rug-pull (SHA-256), threat detect, forwarding, response scan — before touching student data.

  • AI tutor content filtering
  • Age-appropriate response guardrails
  • Learning analytics protection

AI Gateway

Learning LLMs

Route LLM calls for educational applications. Student PII scrubbing before LLM processing; adaptive Z-score circuit breaker for failover.

  • Student PII redaction
  • Multi-LLM routing for EdTech
  • COPPA-compliant AI calls

Verification Engine

4 Validation Layers

Validate every AI tutor response before it reaches a student. Real-time enforcement with staged rollout; BLOCK-capable on selected critical paths.

  • Age-appropriate constraints + forbidden-topic filters
  • Source grounding (citation verification on AI explanations)
  • Structural validation (LTI, JSON schema, regex)

Education Use Cases

Built for every type of educational organization

K-12 Districts

Protect student information systems and learning platforms. FERPA-aligned and COPPA-Ready controls for K-12 deployments.

APIs secured: /students, /grades, /attendance

Higher Education

Secure university SIS, LMS, and research APIs. Protect student records, financial aid data, and research systems.

APIs secured: /enrollment, /financialaid, /transcripts

EdTech Companies

API security for EdTech SaaS platforms. Protect multi-tenant student data and ensure district-level isolation at the gateway.

APIs secured: /districts, /courses, /assessments

Audit Evidence, Built In From Day One

Every student-data access appended to a hash-chain audit log. Cross-framework sync means a SOC 2 control automatically contributes evidence toward GDPR and ISO 27001 where they overlap.

FERPA-Aligned
34 CFR Part 99
COPPA-Ready
under-13 protections
SOC 2 Type II
observation in progress
GDPR-Ready
Articles 5 / 17 / 32
ISO 27001
93 Annex A · aligned
NIST CSF 2.0
106 subcategories

"-Aligned" / "-Ready" reflect capability posture. FERPA is enforced by the U.S. Department of Education and has no third-party certification regime; SOC 2 Type II observation in progress with external audit H2 2026.

Secure Your EdTech APIs Today

Join schools, districts, and EdTech companies using G8KEPR to protect student records, secure AI learning tools, and maintain FERPA-aligned controls with documented evidence.

30-day free trial
FERPA-aligned controls
11 frameworks mapped