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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: append-only audit log for FERPA-aligned record-of-disclosure, contained subprocess execution for AI tutoring agents, student PII auto-redaction before LLM calls. All 4 platforms from $2,000/mo, billed annually.

FERPA-Aligned (34 CFR Part 99)
COPPA-Ready (under-13 protections)
Append-only audit log
94,000+
training samples (24 categories)
12
assessment frameworks (+8 reference)
Append-only
audit log (auth events hash-chained)
FERPA
record-of-disclosure logging
COPPA
under-13 PII auto-redaction
OS-level
process limits on locally launched MCP servers
Target: Sub-5ms
gateway proxy overhead (cached)
99.9%
Uptime target · 1-hr P1 (Enterprise)

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 flag anomalous access, and every login is given a recorded Zero Trust risk score.

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 every change written to the append-only audit log.

Prevention: Integrity checks, role validation, audit logging

Four Platforms for Education

API Security + MCP Security + AI Gateway + Verification Engine — unified on one finding bus 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 checks on AI gateway traffic; a response carrying a critical PII or secret finding is blocked before delivery, streaming or not.

  • 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 written to the append-only audit log. Control crosswalk: each SOC 2 control is mapped to its overlapping ISO 27001 controls.

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 (extend to 90 days free)
FERPA-aligned controls
12 frameworks mapped